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Re:Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal by shrimp_emoji on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:33AM (#27984283)
>phone desktop

>cloud desktop

Please kill me. :)

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Re:Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal by smoldesu on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @12:26PM (#27985678)
Cloud desktops are going to be mainstream long before phone desktops will be a thing, at least at the rate Apple is moving.
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Re:Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal by drewzero1 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @04:52PM (#27989559)
Microsoft appear to be moving this way as well with the recent Windows 365 announcement [1]. I tried self-hosting my own cloud desktop a few years ago on a raspi, and was blown away by how much work I could get done remoting in from my phone or old laptop, not to mention the seamless transition when switching clients.

[1] https://news.microsoft.com/2021/07/14/microsoft-unveils-wind...

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Re:Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal by danlugo92 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:22PM (#27988473)
Yeah, if you perform a migration to a newly bought iPhone, you'll see they have this nailed down.

Just needs to be an instant thing now.

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Re:Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal by smoldesu on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @06:24PM (#27990536)
Do iPhone migrations give you access to a secret desktop mode, or did you perhaps misread my comment?
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