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> I don’t see the benefit of convergence. To me the benefit is not to have a single application that works both with a touch screen and a mouse/keyboard. Rathe
by Skunkleton 8y ago
> I don’t see the benefit of convergence.
To me the benefit is not to have a single application that works both with a touch screen and a mouse/keyboard. Rather, the benefit is to have a single filesystem that I can access with both touch screen apps and mouse/keyboard apps. This way I could for example create a grocery with a mouse/keyboard, then take my phone and check items off with a touchscreen. There are lots of things we rely on the cloud for that would be better served by a "convergent" environment imo.
- thekyle 8y agoI use Syncthing right now to achieve the effect of having a shared file-system across all my devices. It works really well and since it doesn't rely on any sort of cloud or client-server architecture it even works offline if you're on the same network. https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/
- gcbw2 8y agoLol. And this pipe dream of magically converting apps to phone doesn't even address this use case of sharing the data. They assume the linux applications will be cloud locked-in like traditional ios/android apps.