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223 points nikodunk | 8 comments | 14 Oct 24 16:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.91s | source | bottom
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ninetyninenine ◴[14 Oct 24 17:57 UTC] No.41840028[source]▶
What I want is quality to the level of flagship android phones or the iphone with the ability to plug it in to a keyboard, mouse and screen and have it function as my laptop as well.

One single integrated experience. I think everyone wants this. We have the technology we have the demand, it's just companies who make the high quality phones want to completely lock down the market.

You would think the free market would produce a company that would tackle this issue but barrier to entry is waay to high so essentially we have small companies trying to get into this space but they are only creating sub-par products because they can't make something as good as an iphone.

It's basically a legal monopoly. Companies can't get into it because the technology and capital required are way to high and only super mega corps like samsung and apple can pull it off...

Closest thing I've seen to this product I'm looking for is the steam deck. I would buy a steam deck phone if it had the quality of a pixel/iphone device.

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1. freedomben ◴[14 Oct 24 18:02 UTC] No.41840095[source]▶
I agree I would love this option, but how much would you be willing to pay for such a device? Would you pay $800? $1,000? $1,400?

That's where I have a hard time. I would pay that kind of money, but I would need something well polished and fully capable of being a "daily driver." I think many people are in the same place I am, and thus we have a real chicken and egg problem here.

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2. ninetyninenine ◴[14 Oct 24 18:04 UTC] No.41840119[source]▶
I'd pay up to 3k if it was quality delivered the experience of a top quality phone and a top quality laptop.

I mean the technology to do this is already here. If apple or samsung wanted to do this... they can.

Right now I use an iphone, but if samsung made a phone that felt like say linux, windows or macos when in laptop mode... I would switch off iphone in a heartbeat.

And i mean it has to feel like macOS. None of that bloat is acceptable. SteamOS actually pulls this off but in a gaming form factor.

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3. numpad0 ◴[14 Oct 24 18:07 UTC] No.41840163[source]▶
Microsoft at one point was running full NT on ARM on phones. I think they could've done it within such price range, but didn't.
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4. bee_rider ◴[14 Oct 24 18:39 UTC] No.41840496[source]▶
Hmm. If I bought a phone for ~$600 and a laptop for ~$1000, I guess I’d pay ~$1700 for the converged device (adding a little bit because of the intangible benefit of not having to manage my files anymore).
5. michaelmior ◴[14 Oct 24 18:47 UTC] No.41840570[source]▶
> and a top quality laptop. > I mean the technology to do this is already here.

I think it really depends on what precisely you mean here. I don't think it's currently possible to get the same performance of my M3 Max MacBook Pro in the form factor of a phone.

6. PaulDavisThe1st ◴[14 Oct 24 19:02 UTC] No.41840732[source]▶
> And i mean it has to feel like macOS. None of that bloat is acceptable.

I suspect that every single thing you like about macOS is something I consider bloat (or would if that was the only related word I was allowed to use).

My first task on my recently acquired M3 MBP was to remove/hide/disable as much of macOS as I possibly could; only then can I use it as a productive development environment.

7. toast0 ◴[15 Oct 24 04:25 UTC] No.41844929[source]▶
Didn't they? The Lumia 950 launched at about $500ish and supported Continuum.

Continuum wasn't exactly full convergence, but it was kind of close. As I recall, they had a desktop dock and a laptop like dock, that you could pair your phone to (wireless or wired).

Microsoft was big on their 'universal windows app' concept at the time, where universal meant actually only ran on a small fraction of windows devices. sigh

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8. numpad0 ◴[15 Oct 24 12:28 UTC] No.41847863{3}[source]▶
aw. I completely forgot about that. Why didn't it just work? Was it... during those "we invest all our cash to everything needed for total Win32 dominance but boldly let it rot in the backlot" days of Microsoft... yes yes it was.