Re: Thin client
>Do we need a phone that acts as a very thin client?
Well with the voice assistants we seem to be moving in that direction.
In which case the decision becomes do I use Siri/Alexa/Cortana/Google or convert to Alice/Xiaoyi/Mi.
Not sure if any of these services use Nuance's voice biometric authentication, but that does away with passwords and could lead to some interesting access problems; expect to be asked (nicely) would you mind doing the talking...
Mind you if you have a second language, you could probably run both Siri and Alice - to satisfy your two "remote boxes" criteria.