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All of this is true, but with processing power and disk space increasing, you could envision a world where a phone simply has a copy of a desktop OS that it could boot into for docking, like a Mac with a Windows partition.

I’m sure you could do this with Linux now, it’s just such a niche use case nobody has mass produced it.



Exactly: it's such a niche thing, no one is mass-producing it. Because you would still have a problem.

Let's say, you started editing a document on your phone. You then put it in a dock. Now what? The separate desktop OS starts, and?...


>Let's say, you started editing a document on your phone. You then put it in a dock. Now what? The separate desktop OS starts, and?...

And you edit the document in a desktop UI now.

Apple already has this feature (moving data and open files and apps and such from mobile to desktop transparently), called Continuity.


Yes. And it's different apps (one on desktop, on on mobile), and both apps have to support Continuity.

So a phone in dock would have to run two OSes in parallel, and the apps in both OSes would have to run and support continuity-like hand-off.


It could sync from the cloud.


Yup, this will work fast enough work for most apps.




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