I'm not missing the point. I'm saying that some amount of local compute is necessary but the really big stuff can be remote.

You don't need terabytes to turn things back off.

Not that I want to trust "not setting the house on fire" and "not flooding the house" to this kind of model in the first place...

> I would be astonished if flagship model phones in 2030 weren't sold with 1TB RAM.

I'll be astonished if they have 50GB.

Have you looked at RAM size/price trends? I'm not even talking about the last year, just the pattern before that. We're not in the 80s and 90s anymore. The most recent price lows were roughly $3.50/GB in 2013, $2.50/GB in 2016, and $1.50/GB in 2023. If we're lucky the cheapest stuff will hit $1/GB in a few years, and the kind that would actually fit on a phone motherboard would be significantly more than that.

Samsung hit 16GB on their top model in 2020 and it's either been 16GB or 12GB ever since. Apple only went up to 12GB in the last year. Google offers 16GB. A couple niche offerings have 24GB. Why would these RAM numbers even double during the next four years?