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Why has cheap KVM-consoles for phones never taken off? It seems like a great way to get a portable/inexpensive laptop experience. Judging by the relative succes
by mekkkkkk 7y ago
Why has cheap KVM-consoles for phones never taken off? It seems like a great way to get a portable/inexpensive laptop experience. Judging by the relative success of Chromebooks, it would appear to be a ripe segment. And the performance of any mid to high tier phone is more than enough for the casual laptop user.
As mentioned in the article:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andromium/the-superbook-turn-your-smartphone-into-a-laptop-f https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andromium/the-superbook...
- zozbot234 7y agoWhat I wonder about is cheap KVM consoles for RaspPi and comparable SBC's. There used to be a few (e.g. a docking station from Motorola which just happened to be compatible with the RaspPi use case) but it's not really an established market.
- jbverschoor 7y agoI don’t want a kvm switch. I don’t want to rely on some remote server to do actual work
- mekkkkkk 7y agoWell, in this case the remote server would be your phone. The switching part would be plugging it in.
- jbverschoor 7y agooh like that. Yeah, for my phone I think the only things I'd want is actually just vscode and a linuxy environment. I was playing around with https://ish.app/ https://ish.app/ on ios.. It supports airplay. But I couldnt' get it to compile some things I'd want, and it was still very slow.
- Spooky23 7y agoIt does in some industries. VDI is a thing, and ChromeOS is a really cool way to deliver it. Chrome offers some really interesting use cases in enterprise now, and the pricing is competitive with traditional thin clients. You can still get Wyse devices for less money at scale.