We have centralized services for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that they're more reliable than decentralized systems. Phones get lost, stolen, drowned, and crushed. People drive through tunnels or into mountains without cell signal. Batteries die.
It seems patently absurd to think that a P2P network of handsets is somehow going to replace The Datacenter, on any timescale.
We have centralized services for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that they're more reliable than decentralized systems. Phones get lost, stolen, drowned, and crushed. People drive through tunnels or into mountains without cell signal. Batteries die.
It seems patently absurd to think that a P2P network of handsets is somehow going to replace The Datacenter, on any timescale.