Phones do light compute; Akash does the heavy lifting
The Composability Potential of IBC Enabled Blockchains (Akash Network)
“Mobile phones are lightweight devices — they can [not] do the computations, right? So a use case for Akash there would be lightweight processing on the mobile phone and heavyweight processing on Akash, on a decentralized cloud. So you can see how the mobile operating system can work in tandem with the cloud operating system in a highly composable way, without the user even knowing about it. Such use cases could be like games… you can have the high-end graphic processing done on the cloud on Akash and deliver that directly to the mobile phone.” — 00:00:42
Context: Early articulation of his edge-device-plus-decentralized-cloud split, prompted by Solana Mobile (Saga) plans.