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Re:iPhone X by zaroth on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:59PM (#15232635)
Placing my phone next to my 30" monitor and bluetooth keyboard/mouse should make the macOS VM running on my iPhone X resume from hibernate and just start running.

The more interesting thing is how tightly connected the macOS VM could be with the iOS VM (I use the term VM here loosly, they could easily be containers living side-by-side and not within a literal hypervisor).

For example, are there two processes running 'Mail' and two copies of every message so that iOS and macOS Mail apps are both working? Do I have to configure them both separately to connect to my accounts? That would be quite silly.

If you can get the two OSs sharing resources but still effectively providing desktop sized vs phone sized user interfaces that could be something quite powerful.

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Re:iPhone X by maxerickson on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @05:06PM (#15232708)
I wonder if doing it app by app makes more sense than splitting the OS. So an app can be phone aware and desktop aware and so on.

This already sort of happens with some web apps.

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