A dock *IS A DESKTOP*.
You can't carry a big monitor, a big keyboard, etc with you. Therefore the big stuff has to sit somewhere--which is conceptually a desk.
See?
I'm currently working on a 23" monitor with a full-size ergonomic keyboard and a fairly substantial wireless mouse. That means I won't be carrying the monitor/keyboard/mouse with me, so that silly little phone of the future won't do squat for me as a work environment without the dock, right?
Meaning I have to go where the monitor is, which is the dock, which is the desktop.
Now, when they find a way to project a nice sharp 20"+ equivalent screen that's readable in all lighting conditions on any given wall, and a folding keyboard that makes no compromises in ergonomics, then we'll talk.
Till then, long live the desktop!
