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Roland6 Silver badge

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.

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