Basically, Cycle employs a dedicated server to host and stream a virtual version of your phone, eliminating the need to download apps on your device. Rather, your communication and apps are streamed from the cloud and mirrored on any supported handheld device, via the connected-cloud.
Canadian tech developer, Adam Macdonald, CEO, Cycle, says he's inventing the new architecture to do away with, doing away with your smart phone.
"The problem," as Macdonald explained to iHeartRadio listeners and viewers on OneLOVECharlene.com radio show, June 30, 2021, "is that our current technology is disposable. Whenever a manufacturer decides to throttle your current phone to sell you a new version, you have to get rid of your old phone."
"If everyone in the world gets a smart phone and we need to replace all of those every three years," Macdonald argued, "we are going to start running out of minerals to make new components and fabricate new devices that often."
He went on to address the economic impact that would have on the average user, "smart phones are only going to get more more and expensive. And not to mention, that's a bad proposition for the planet," Macdonald stated.
Technically speaking, according to it's whitepaper outlining its technical operation, Cycle's tele-cloud computing service captures visual output from an emulator and streams it to your local device. The interaction goes somewhat like a reverberating echo, but without the echoing. As you touch your screen or push your buttons, all those input commands are transmitted to your virtual phone in the cloud, the responding output is returned to your screen - all within nano-seconds.
As adoption of the streamed phone service scales to mass usage, utilization of tele-computing functionality is expected to exponentially increase, whereby major apps in the marketplace will of necessity migrate to a connected-cloud model as well.
Users will not be limited to the capacity of a single device or needing to update apps. Especially since some apps put your device in vampire mode, where the user is prevented from navigating other functions on the device during updates. The object is that the device will simply act as a portal or doggy door into the virtual client account.
Additionally, shifting away from the grasp of device management and trending toward virtual operations, users will find they have greater access to the latest and most robust computational resources. And as Cycle upgrade its architecture and its servers, each user will have access to a more powerful operating system at a cheaper cost.
This shift is not only promised for a future era, it is here and now. Services like Netflix, X-Box and other gaming services are proof-positive that with a somewhat stable wifi connection or mobile data service, streaming is everything.
Likewise, tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Adobe have ghosted hard disc versions or licensed downloads of their software and applications. They're primarily pushing users to run their desktop applications from the cloud indicating that this shift to the connected-cloud is not a trend, as it changes the way we work and play, it is here to stay.
But according to Macdonald, what's more likely to occur is that "traditional operating systems will need massive overhauls, or perhaps even replacement, in order to harness the true abilities of this new connected-cloud architecture."
The software is still-in-dev (SiD) mode, but the Cycle architecture appears device-agnostic, for Android at least. The dev-team of four is primarily focused on ironing out the kinks in the application for improved responsiveness and faster connection speeds.
On the hardware front, Macdonald hinted that a native Cycle smarter phone device is under consideration. There promises to be key advantages gained from migrating to a virtual phone architecture. Instead of using the tiny micro-processor, a current phone runs on to carryout all its computations, a dedicated server in the cloud will run the phone.This approach overcomes needing to fit new phones with the latest chip. And consequently, frees up room for more battery capacity built in to handheld devices.
The expected timeline from SiD mode to rollout for Cycle, according to Macdonald, is beta-testing near year-end 2021, before quality testing in the field and for user experience improvements by early 2022.
With an architecture like Cycle in their palm, as of now, users are able to scale up or pair down their computational requirements from near zero to the server maximum of roughly 800 gigabyte of random access memory (RAM) and 96 central processing units.
Cycle's vision "is to harness the power of quantum computing at the cloud level," Macdonald stated. "This will allow us to to offer the average user access to unimaginable computing power for pennies."
