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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by ommunist on Thursday July 28, 2016 @10:45PM (#12184758)
It is not missed if you consider your device a terminal to your real Linux server and use Prompt on iOS as an example.
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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by adrianratnapala on Friday July 29, 2016 @02:47AM (#12185346)
The chief feature I miss on Android is the ability to user rsync to syncrhonise its content with my PC in a reasonable way. I can rsync to the phone -- but none of the apps are allowed to read the directory thus synced.

Maybe IOs is more forgiving. But how would a terminal emulator help?

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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by Nullabillity on Thursday July 28, 2016 @10:55PM (#12184786)
Sounds wonderful reat if you enjoy GPRS latency and typing code with soft keyboards. I'd also assume that working with local peripherals work great with that setup?
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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by ommunist on Friday July 29, 2016 @02:01PM (#12188618)
Saved my bacon couple of times. Definitely not for regular job, but a very good thing to have for just in case situations.
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