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Other companies tried mp3 players, and then there was apple. A cost of a desktop dock would be nothing compared to the cost of a tower. The mouse/keyboard/monit
by trixie_ 6y ago
Other companies tried mp3 players, and then there was apple. A cost of a desktop dock would be nothing compared to the cost of a tower. The mouse/keyboard/monitor you'd have to buy either way.
- rbanffy 6y agoThe design constraints of a phone are much different from a desktop computer or a laptop. A good phone is not a good laptop and the corpses along the way more or less prove that. A phone will run a benchmark faster than a laptop for a couple minutes. Keep it under pressure for an hour - say, render a 4K video with a couple layers - it'll have nowhere to dump the excess heat. There is one way to really pull it off, however - when plugged, the phone hands over processing and RAM to the docking station (maybe via an image transfer from one hypervisor to the other), but there is very little to be gained here - coordination between the two, the way Apple already does it between macOS and iPhone, is a great experience. If the hypervisors keep the memory image in sync, say, every second copying dirty state to the phone, you can even unplug it without risking much.
- trixie_ 6y agoPeople watch videos and play 3d games on their iPhones for hours now already. Absolutely no need to make a dock more complicated than a dumb proxy for input/output devices.