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Re:The end of smartphone innovation by homarp on Saturday March 25, 2017 @06:00AM (#13954833)
looks like Apple is working on something like this, based on this patent http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/03/23/apple-investigatin...
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Re:The end of smartphone innovation by Nullabillity on Saturday March 25, 2017 @06:33AM (#13954930)
How on earth is Motorola Lapdock not prior art to that?
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Re:The end of smartphone innovation by pasta on Saturday March 25, 2017 @12:02PM (#13956230)
I think the Apple patent is mostly about using your phone as trackpad while docked.
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Re:The end of smartphone innovation by Nullabillity on Saturday March 25, 2017 @04:24PM (#13957406)
Not seeing those either. KDE Connect (and others) already do the trackpad thing, and there's plenty of prior art for switching to a certain program when a device is connected.
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