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This person has no idea what they are talking about. WWAN cards have been in laptops for 25 years. 2-in-1s have been around for about 20. Every "trend" here is
by kristopolous 5y ago
This person has no idea what they are talking about. WWAN cards have been in laptops for 25 years. 2-in-1s have been around for about 20. Every "trend" here is decades old.
Beyond that the tracking indicators are also nonsense. People buy new cell phones. But for maybe 10 or so years, they've been buying more and more used laptops because it has mattered less and less. This means the comparison isn't the same.
Also it's always been a family computer more than a personal computer. Every person will have a cell phone that gets damaged and must be replaced every few years but many people have just 1 laptop per household which lasts basically until it can no longer be operated.
Also these things really aren't merging. For instance, the builtin cameras on laptops are still pretty terrible and other interesting things like the screen on the back of the cell phone for notifications (many implementations are around) don't have equivalencies in the laptop world. And what about a rear facing camera on a laptop, know of any? Why not, I thought they were merging!
As far as applications, there's really far-from-working things like anbox https://anbox.io/ https://anbox.io/ but it's still mostly a pipedream. Have laptops ship with ARM daughter boards with android installed and have a seamless bridge for integrating applications between the desktop and daughterboard as a typical technology then I'll start to agree with this analysis.
Have transportability of a running application from the mobile device to the laptop so I can swap the device I'm using to interface it and have the interface change in a way that affords each device (as in touch versus keyboard centric), all without losing application state, then I'll agree.
Currently these are ridiculous fantasies. They shouldn't be. But they are.
The only merging that exists is because they share tech, but that's obvious, they're both portable computers. Yes, they both have the same storage and battery tech, no kidding. So what?