Flashback: phones that weren’t, part 4: making a new smartphone OS is hard
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- 03 Jul 2023
Anonymous, 03 Jul 2023That's why I sold off both my MacBook Pro laptop and i... moreThis. Simplicity is the key here. Why need more than one device if we can do more things comfortably with one device? Some people don't think that far, or maybe they feel that "normal people" should buy more devices because we're poor if we want a kind of all-in-one device.
- Aoi Akane
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- 03 Jul 2023
YUKI93, 03 Jul 2023Apple is a pioneer of copying other Android features and al... moreBut by the logic of that one color guy in this comment, that Desktop Mode is not necessarily needed on iOS because it's useless and people should pay more for both phone and laptop. 🤣
- Aoi Akane
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- 03 Jul 2023
blue, 02 Jul 2023People know about the feature, but they simply don't n... morePretty sure most of people DON'T know about this feature. And as I said, this can be a good replacement for laptop that runs on some crappy hardware like Celeron, since any phone with the same pricing as Celeron laptop will has way better performance than any Celeron laptops on the market. I never had a laptop with Celeron before, but I've used my friend's laptop before with Celeron to do some stuffs with PowerPoint, and it's literally has a worse performance than my mom's $500 Android phone.
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- Anonymous
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- 03 Jul 2023
YUKI93, 03 Jul 2023Typical consumerism logic. Of course Apple won't do th... moreThat's why I sold off both my MacBook Pro laptop and iPad Pro tablet, and now only use my Microsoft Surface Pro tablet as my primary desktop device. I don't need to buy two different thing to do two different job when I can only have one thing that can do those two different job together.
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- Anonymous
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- 03 Jul 2023
blue, 02 Jul 2023Why should Apple do it, when they do things differently? Oh... moreImagine buying a lot of their products but only use one or two of them regularly and left the rest collecting dust. May as well just sold it back, I dunno. 🤷🤷
- SuuperBaka
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- 03 Jul 2023
Zendroid, 03 Jul 2023Google didn't do anything. It was ms who believed on t... more"Google didn't do anything. It was ms who believed on their own vision, no apps only widgets. But Google refused in the end, since ms said no thanks in the start (when Google and apple both said apps is the future)."
Yes, they did. They prevented any functioning Google app from working on WP devices. I had a WP device and noticed the lack of Google apps.
It made sense, Apple was number 1 established and Android was fighting others for that number 2 spot. If they can cripple Microsoft, then they'd do it.
Microsoft was trying to bridge the app gap between them for a long time and was close with Windows 10 and sideloading, but it got scrapped as they almost got it.
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- 03 Jul 2023
Aoi Akane, 02 Jul 2023Don't people always think of Apple as the pioneer of a... moreApple is a pioneer of copying other Android features and always makes a big song-and-dance about it, thinking it's revolutionary. Just wait for Apple to develop their equivalent of Android Desktop Mode for iOS.
- YUKI93
- K1L
- 03 Jul 2023
blue, 02 Jul 2023Why should Apple do it, when they do things differently? Oh... moreTypical consumerism logic. Of course Apple won't do that because they want to keep draining your wallet for you to be fully locked to their ecosystem. Such a stupidly simple common sense that sh**ples like you can't even comprehend. 😂🤣
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- CargoJoe
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- 03 Jul 2023
Windows phone would've been a great third OS had companies jump in. And Microsoft would've had better time developing Windows on Arm. Too bad companies decided to rival each other cause they love our data more than anything else. Maybe some day a better OS would be available that can put the smartphone duopoly to rest.
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- Anonymous
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- 03 Jul 2023
LOL! Who want this phones? Big bezels from 1980 phone. No Discord. Haha Linux phone is dead!
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- CargoJoe
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- 03 Jul 2023
AnonD-1106336, 02 Jul 2023Yeah nobody is interested with those apps, everyone is inte... moreNot even sure whar apps are you talking about. Did you even get what he's saying?
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- 03 Jul 2023
SuuperBaka, 02 Jul 2023I mean Google screwed Microsoft over by preventing any func... moreGoogle didn't do anything. It was ms who believed on their own vision, no apps only widgets. But Google refused in the end, since ms said no thanks in the start (when Google and apple both said apps is the future).
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- 03 Jul 2023
Hemedans, 02 Jul 2023They use Arm Architectural but they design their Cores, als... moreNo, apple didn't found Arm, Arm is a british company thats been around for decades. Please get your facts right before spreading misinformation
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- 02 Jul 2023
Anonymous, 02 Jul 2023Apple also dont design from scratch, they customise already... moreThey use Arm Architectural but they design their Cores, also Apple Founded Arm if you didn't know.
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- 02 Jul 2023
Linux comes in place 1 2 ..100 latest from nasa Europe BMW Tesla etc, tumbleweed is complete run from the smallest to the largest systems
https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/eoss2023/38/Status-of-Embedded-Linux-2023-06-ELC.pdf
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- 02 Jul 2023
Microsoft Continuum flopped because Windows runs horribly on low specs. Ubuntu Edge would have actually been a good phone, but Canonical wanted enthusiasts to pay for it all. I think if they either made something more appealing to more enthusiasts and were willing to do a more limited run it could have worked. Maybe they should try it again. IMO they should partner with someone who already makes mainstream phones like Google used to do with the Pixels. Either way this ship has probably sailed for me since I prefer Arch now. 🤓
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- Tyas
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- 02 Jul 2023
K, 02 Jul 2023Imagine being so self centered that you call something &quo... moreOk, tell me, how to run Telegram app on Ubuntu touch. Also, GTK apps and KDE apps are well optimized for phone screen and supports touchscreen. Why I can't run them on Ubuntu Touch? That's why I'm considering this OS as useless.
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- 02 Jul 2023
Aoi Akane, 02 Jul 2023don't know ≠ don't need. Just because users don&#... morePeople know about the feature, but they simply don't need it, because it is not comfortable at all. If you ever tried a decent PC, you would have known that.
But no, all you can do is talk nonsense.
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- 02 Jul 2023
YUKI93, 02 Jul 2023Come back to me when Apple make iOS equivalent of the Andro... moreWhy should Apple do it, when they do things differently? Oh yes, I get it, you can't afford to buy phone and a PC, so you need desktop mode in your phone.
That's not Apple's fault.
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- AnonD-1106336
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- 02 Jul 2023
Anonymous, 02 Jul 2023I'm a developer. I mostly work with responsive webapps... moreYeah nobody is interested with those apps, everyone is interested in the comments, agendas they reflect, don’t brag.