The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?

Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google? by dmitriid on Friday March 29, 2019 @11:36AM (#19522561)

> Having the phone dock into a screen/keyboard/mouse workplace and displaying a mouse-friendly desktop isn't far of.

How do you imagine this would work even in theory? Running two OSes side-by-side (one when in phone mode, one when in desktop mode?).

Or running two largely incompatible desktop shells with largely incompatible interfaces for multiple apps (touch-optimised programs are very different from mouse-and-keyboard-optimised programs)?

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Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google? by johannes1234321 on Friday March 29, 2019 @03:50PM (#19524996)

You don't need two OSes.

For applications there is lots of work to make it really nice. Putting mobile apps on "desktop" can be done, while user interface will be a bit strange. But that's a thing which needs time. Microsoft tried that by pushing mobile on desktop, but they didn't have the mobile story. Apple has notable Userbase on both.

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Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google? by dmitriid on Saturday March 30, 2019 @05:15PM (#19531905)

So, who exactly is going to “put a lot of work to make apps behave properly in incompatible environments”.

Userbase has nothing to do with that.

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