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Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode

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442 points logic_node | 1 comments | 13 May 25 14:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.319s | source
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kome ◴[13 May 25 18:43 UTC] No.43976232[source]▶
I’m against smartphones. Sure, they’re a technological marvel, but they’re also incredibly dumb in practice. They’re built mainly for consumption, not creation. They feel like walled gardens that limit freedom and stifle creativity. The hardware might be amazing, but the software is awful. In the end, they mostly just make our kids dumber.

What I’d really like is a personal computer I can plug into a screen to work, then carry with me when I’m done. That would be a real step forward in personal computing. It would make laptops unnecessary.

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1. thesuperbigfrog ◴[13 May 25 19:23 UTC] No.43976622[source]▶
This is largely due to the popularity of full touchscreen smartphones compared to those in the past that had hardware keyboards (for example Blackberry and Palm Treo devices).

Devices with hardware keyboards were easier to use for creation (especially writing) and more of the software was focused on creation because of the more limited media processing capabilities of those devices (e.g. less processing power, less memory, more restricted media codecs at that time).