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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 | 2 comments | 13 May 25 14:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.75s | source
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carlhjerpe ◴[13 May 25 19:13 UTC] No.43976514[source]▶
This is the only natural path if mobile chips are going to keep getting faster, everyone with a flagship phone is "wasting" so much good compute resources that never gets utilized.

I wonder if we'll see USB-C docks for phones with fans blowing at the device for improved thermals.

If they nail the Linux container UX as well as ChromeOS it would motivate me to buy a top-tier device rather than my sluggish Fairphone 4, right now I don't see the usecase other than good camera.

Imagine thst a large userbase could just skip the laptop and desktop in favor of a USB-C dock and a decent display :)

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1. happyopossum ◴[14 May 25 02:44 UTC] No.43980196[source]▶
> If they nail the Linux container UX as well as ChromeOS … >Imagine thst a large userbase could just skip the laptop and desktop in favor of a USB-C dock and a decent display :)

Yeah - I don’t think the user base interested in container UX is “large” in relation to the mobile world.

Also, who wants to carry around a display with its own battery, a keyboard with its own batteries, a mouse/trackpad (batteries) and cables for the above? At some point it’s honestly easier to just grab a MacBook Air and walk out the door.

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2. carlhjerpe ◴[14 May 25 08:35 UTC] No.43982267[source]▶
Umm no, the mouse/keyboard/display combo would be something you have at work and maybe at home... I'm not suggesting people start hauling 27" displays for shits and giggles, computing from a phone doesn't seem that fun.

And I don't know, the container UX people didn't exist for ChromeOS before ChromeOS made it easy to run Linux apps that way so.