I wonder if it would be better now that mobile GPUs are pushing as many (or more) pixels as desktop screens have. I agree the software is the problem and still

I wonder if it would be better now that mobile GPUs are pushing as many (or more) pixels as desktop screens have. I agree the software is the problem and still probably not there yet, and it's unlikely any company is going to put the development resources into it needed to get it right. The solution is (maybe) to go commodity for everything. Maybe a partition on your phone with ubuntu on it and just boot into a different OS when you dock? You'd need it to boot fast, and you'd probably want to share files between desktop-mode and phone-mode, which is going to be difficult. Hardware-wise, screw the laptop form factor and just go for the monitor/keyboard/mouse that many many people already have in their house. The only hardware you sell is a cord splitter that plugs into the phone and triggers a fast OS switch when you plug it in. ChromeOS might work ok, too, if you're ok with just a browser; it could be just a little Chromebox already built and ready.