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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by SirHound on Sunday January 13, 2019 @11:30AM (#18897271)
The iPhone is so powerful now I don’t understand why they don’t sell a dock for it that runs a desktop environment. or a laptop enclosure where you drop it in as the trackpad. I’d be back on the upgrade cycle if they did.
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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by coldtea on Sunday January 13, 2019 @11:36AM (#18897306)
The last iPad Pro allows you to hook it to external screens...
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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by graeme on Sunday January 13, 2019 @01:03PM (#18897808)
They could do it before too: the difference now is a direct usb c connection. But most apps don't support anything but mirroring. And the resolution only partly fills the monitor.

Iphones can connect to external displays too, with an adapter. But I don't see this being influential until there's a framework for the second dosplay, mouse support etc

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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by coldtea on Sunday January 13, 2019 @02:25PM (#18898216)
>*They could do it before too: the difference now is a direct usb c connection

The main difference to me is that now it's officially sanctioned, and even mentioned on Apple's material (shown in the keynote, etc).

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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by graeme on Sunday January 13, 2019 @03:42PM (#18898564)
I agree, I think it's a very interesting change for the future, and we may see why it happened when ios 13 is released.

But as of now, very early days.

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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by belltaco on Sunday January 13, 2019 @02:17PM (#18898168)
It would cut into Macbook sales.
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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by HacklesRaised on Sunday January 13, 2019 @12:27PM (#18897590)
To be fair this has been suggested, at Apple, so many times. Trying to get ideas through the exec team was always problematic.
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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by SirHound on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:49AM (#18901624)
I assume now the only growth is going to be found by increasing their market share, it'll be suggested again.
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