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Will you have administrator privileges? And side loading? Otherwise it is of no use at all.

• stinos 12y ago
  no use at all that seems exaggerated.. Being able to hook up your phone to a monitor (projector?)/keyboard/mouse and have access to what looks like the full office suite seems quite useful for some.
• Guvante 12y ago
  I think the huge ecosystem of apps out there thoroughly disproves your point. Honestly I love the permission scheme of the app stores compared to my desktop. Being able to control what the app can do is massively better than the desktop system of "runs as user". On the topic of root, I would hope we would work towards a time when it wasn't necessary rather than using it as a crutch.
  • venomsnake 12y ago
    On desktop you have more control - you can firewall, code inject, rewrite dlls, crack, cheatengine stuff and so on. Root means ownership of your device. And not being confined to a walled garden ... so while a future in which root is not used is terrific, a future in which root does not belong to the user is terrifying ...
    • madez 12y ago
      With "Trusted Computing" being root is not sufficient to own your device.
    • Guvante 12y ago
      I would agree that root being an option is a huge win for consumers but I still believe that root not being the default is good for computing as a whole.
• abrowne 12y ago
  Maybe not no use, but if this means desktops are as locked down as phones, I'm not interested. If it means I get admin rights on my phone, even if only in desktop mode, then I'm interested.
• anonymfus 12y ago
  >And side loading? https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/xaml/dn706236.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/xaml/dn70623...