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Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google? by Err_Eek on Friday March 29, 2019 @10:47AM (#19522129)
I think Ubuntu Touch was supposed to be that, but it ended up being a market failure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch

Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google? by MayeulC on Friday March 29, 2019 @11:11AM (#19522350)
That, and plasma active on the KDE side.

On the upside, this is still being worked on. The UBports community is still active, and KDE has been refining its plasma mobile interface. Purism's librem 5 should be convergence-capable.

Window toolkits are also being developed to help create responsive applications: Kirigami and libhandy, to name a few.

On the non-opensource front, there is also Microsoft's UWP, and samsung's DeX is showing some promise.

We're getting there, but slower than anticipated. The EOMA68 is also a promising concept, though slightly different, and more similar to what the parent describes.

Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google? by platz on Friday March 29, 2019 @11:29AM (#19522507)