Smart Devices Versus Services
Devices may access or offer one or many services from other devices. Services may be split across several devices or be offered by multiple types of services. Service models tend be oriented towards virtual computing environment service use and Internets with seemingly unbounded resources. Devices embody bounded resources that constrain service use. Weiser has referred to this concept of devices being ubiquitous yet bounded as embodied virtuality.
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