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>blah blah did it first Tablets had been done before without success, then Apple released the iPad. You don't have to be first to market to win. The failure of
by danjoc 9y ago
>blah blah did it first
Tablets had been done before without success, then Apple released the iPad. You don't have to be first to market to win. The failure of others in the same segment is not a predictor of future failure.
Execution is everything.
I was already doing this in 2013 with a Nexus 5. I had a wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, wireless display connection, wireless charging, and Linux for Android running Ubuntu. It was terrible, because all the wireless things created lag, it was like screen sharing on a bad connection with someone in Asia. I bought a slimport cable and it was still terrible. USB 2.0 simply didn't have the bandwidth to push FHD display resolution without artifacts.
I see USB-C in the bottom of that stand. If that's USB-C 3.1 gen2 then it has 10GBps and enough bandwidth to push 4K at a decent refresh rate. I see the potential to have a wired keyboard and mouse using the monitor as a USB hub. This is already a much better solution than has been offered before by other companies.
- metaphor 9y ago> ...enough bandwidth to push 4K at a decent refresh rate. What general productivity task at mobile compute scale would optimally leverage 4K resolution at a decent refresh rate?
- SyneRyder 9y agoPhotoshop, perhaps? The DeX already runs a version of Photoshop, and the Samsung store folks were pushing the DeX as an option for website development, especially as their browser supports both desktop & mobile modes. (If I recall correctly, I think he even said the desktop browser has some developer tools built-in, but I haven't been back to the store to check that.)
- metaphor 9y agoI'm not certain Photoshop can be classified as general productivity, but if we gave it the benefit of the doubt anyways and further assumed end-users would somehow benefit immensely from such a high resolution, then I'm still not seeing were decent refresh rate fits snuggly into the imperative.
- SyneRyder 9y agoThe DeX stand has some regular USB ports (and an Ethernet jack!) in the back, so you can already plug a wired keyboard & mouse directly into those. I think the DeX is limited to a 1920 x 1080p display, though.
- thinkMOAR 9y agoindeed it doesn't do more then fullHD, but im pretty sure the box says 4k. A colleague of mine got one few weeks ago, and we noticed that.
- hdhzy 9y agoThe USB-C port is just for power and as far as I know it doesn't support anything more than 1080p than on a big monitor looks kind of bad.