It’s more than just that, it’s too slow a desktop OS like environment that’s more suited for mouse and keyboard too. It’s not just your phone screen on a bigger screen.
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ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 days agoAll phones are PCs, this is just connecting external displays.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
quantumcrop@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I guess the point is that phone hardware has been powerful enough to do it for a while. It’s surprising that no big companies other than Samsung really put any effort into making it work software wise.
rodneylives@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Mobile devices tend to be much less versatile than PCs, mind you, and on purpose, due to one of Steve Jobs’ most misguided apprehensions, that it’d be a good idea to hide the filesystem from the user. (Cue someone somehow claiming that’s Good Actually in three, two, one…)
BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Hiding the file system is Good Actually because…
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Nope, can’t come up with a single reason. It’s fucking terrible.