If they called it a Macbook Air with an upside-down bulge and a detachable keybo...

walterbell · 2024-10-07T23:44:57 1728344697

With touch screen, iOS and macOS?

SheinhardtWigCo · 2024-10-08T00:08:25 1728346105

macOS when the keyboard is attached, and iOS when it is not, with instantaneous switching.

One can dream… but really, this is not all that far-fetched

kuhsaft · 2024-10-08T04:36:43 1728362203

What would happen to the macOS applications when switching to iOS? iOS applications would be fine in macOS-mode (Mac Catalyst already exists). But, there isn't a good way to make macOS applications usable in iOS-mode.

walterbell · 2024-10-08T04:48:35 1728362915

Start with macOS CLI VM. Give it a couple of years and see how customers use it.

Or allow Linux/FreeBSD VMs.

diffeomorphism · 2024-10-08T06:20:34 1728368434

We cureently have that on pixel devices, where you can just run windows if you want

https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/02/14/android-13-virtualiz...

We had that with linuxonDex or maruos or motorola or..

People say they want that, but when they actually do, it completely flops.

walterbell · 2024-10-08T07:32:42 1728372762

> People say they want that, but when they actually do, it completely flops.

That feature isn't yet exposed to end-users, although the plumbing is in place. So far only on Pixel devices.

There's potential for phones docking to desktops via USB-c, running both Android and Linux/ChromeOS VMs.

pjmlp · 2024-10-08T08:17:14 1728375434

Except no one except a few geeks ever cared about Samsung DEX, or Windows Phone/Table continuum.

sznio · 2024-10-08T10:04:25 1728381865

Well, it couldn't run any real programs. ARM caught up now.

pjmlp · 2024-10-08T10:07:19 1728382039

I thought that was what FOSS was all about having all those people in their Internet coffee shops using Termux under DEX to compile their real programs.

walterbell · 2024-10-09T00:41:58 1728434518

Google Android (Linux) App Store 2023 revenue was over 45 billion dollars.

Google is a major contributor to Linux in support of Android and Chromebooks.

Some non-zero portion of those value flows would benefit from mobile intermittent-desktop UX.

pjmlp · 2024-10-09T10:16:12 1728468972

And that is related to people not buying DEX, because?

guax · 2024-10-09T05:55:08 1728453308

Near native speeds. VMS. Android desktop mode. Etc. it's never a keyboard less computer. It's always a bodge on top of Android. Of course it flops.

I don't think the real thing would be good enough. The compromises can only be worse.

worstspotgain · 2024-10-07T23:55:02 1728345302

Touch screen but no iOS.