Comment on What are your technology mispredictions?

mech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Janx@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s so obvious, I wish they had caught on! I remember there was a failed Ubuntu phone Kickstarter for exactly this…

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  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sapphire screen….

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Samsung even had a feature in their phones copying this. Looks like its still present but was left to rot though

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    • QuiteQuickQum@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Randomly tripped across this over NYE. Was hoping to share something on a Samsung TV at a cabin and when it synced it was showing a full desktop I could navigate using my screen as a mousepad and keyboard. Blew my mind.

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    • foggenbooty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t know if I’d sat left to rot. I still use it almost every other day, and Google is working on a version for the Pixel phones as well.

      I think the Moto Atrix and Dex were probably a bit ahead of their time, but likely going to make a comeback soon.

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• SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And I can't really understand why we aren't there yet. Do we really need 8 cores to phone and read IMs? And isn't there an OS that works both on mobile and desktop?
  I'm baffled.

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• Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The nearest thing we have is the Steam Deck dock.

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  • notthebees@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Quite a few phones have desktop modes now, and they work alright. I wish my phone had it. My iphone 16 supports USB dp alt mode but only a direct mirror.

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• Zak@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember playing with a Motorola Atrix in a store. It seemed like a really cool idea.

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  • djdarren@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I still mourn the loss of the timeline where the Atrix was successful. Our phones are every bit powerful enough for 95% of the computing most of us do, so why can’t we just drop them in a slot and have them be a laptop?

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    • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Samsung, Huawei, Microsoft, and LG tried similar ideas and none got much traction.

      I’m not sure it’s actually a good idea even now that phones have enough CPU and RAM for an adequate desktop experience. It’s certainly not a good idea running Android as we know it, where apps are data silos and have UIs that don’t cleanly transition from the palmtop experience to the desktop experience.

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• DosDude@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dick it in a laptop shell. And then the phone being the touchpad for the mouse. This was my prediction too. I’m still hoping.

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• Flaxseed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Still hoping…

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• ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My Steam Deck is basically that.

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• notthebees@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s a few Android phones that have it, old and new. I have an iPhone 16 at the moment and while it works with a dp-alt mode dock, it only mirrors the screen and nothing else. I think there’s some things you can do to trick the phone into enabling stage manager and other ipad features.

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  • djdarren@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m still salty that Apple crooked my 6th gen iPad mini by not allowing Stage Manager on it to allow it to work with an external display. Like the iPhone, it just mirrors, which is bullshit. I don’t even care if it shuts off the built in screen because it can only run one display, I just wish it could be used as a portable computer.

    iPadOS 26 brought actual Stage Manager to it, but it’s a gimped version that still doesn’t work properly with an external display.

    As a result, I don’t really use my iPad these days.

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