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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by ogre_codes on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:35AM (#23609963)
I don't need VSCode, Docker, or node.js on my phone. I don't want all the clones of the various repositories I'm working on on my phone. Even the best phones lack the RAM, high capacity drives, and video card my computer has. Nor does it have a keyboard or trackpad.

If your phone is good enough to take care of your day to day computing, you can probably get by with an inexpensive all-in-one computer and save the headache of docking.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by saagarjha on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @07:10AM (#23612395)
You'd be surprised how many people would like exactly this, interestingly. There are certainly enough to quite literally pay real money for a somewhat lousy facsimile of the real thing; I know from experience.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by int_19h on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:38AM (#23610262)
The dock can have the extra storage.

(And the GPU, and maybe even more RAM etc).

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by ogre_codes on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:06AM (#23614850)
> The dock can have the extra storage.

Then what is the point in docking at all? Now you have to keep track of what's on the dock and what's on the phone. Plus, by the time you integrate all this into a dock, you basically have something that costs as much as an inexpensive PC, so why bother?

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by SlackingOff123 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:27AM (#23610850)
You'll need something to connect all those dock components together so you don't have to run several cables to the phone. Something like a motherboard. So you'll have a full computer sans a cpu.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by int_19h on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:39AM (#23610936)
More like a Thunderbolt dock with a screen.
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