When I got my Samsung Galaxy 8 a couple of years a go, I also got the Samsung DEX, which basically was a docking station for the smartphone. You could plug in a HDMI cable, a USB keyboard and mouse. When you in the next step would connect the 'phone' to a HDMI monitor, the phone would change into a keypad and the phone screen would be displayed on the monitor. In the Next step, you could start working on your phone like it was a desktop computer, right?
It worked very well, especially for web applications that ran in the browser. This last sentence also has it's main flaw hidden in it. When you would run an app in the desktop mode, you still have the small app screen, like you see when you run an emulator when you are developing an app on your computer. But as many people know, we are in the age of web applications, this really wasn't directly a problem. The technology was so promising that immediately some companies, like the Dutch Achmea started realizing office setups with DEX. Readers who follow this blog frequently, know that a couple of weeks ago we published an article about Ubuntu Touch . So why and how is Ubuntu Touch going to conquer the world? To answer this, we have to explain why Android is going to fail. The main reason Android is not going to make it, is because we are convinced that smartphones are going to take over the position of the computer. Meaning running applications on big screens. To make this possible, apps need convergence. They need to be able to adapt the gui of the app to the screen size, and Android doesn't support this feature.... but Ubuntu Touch does. In fact, Ubuntu Touch is a fully complete Ubuntu operating system that runs on a smartphone and fully supports convergence, so you can use a modern Ubuntu Touch Volla phone and Fairphone as if it were a desktop computer. We only need more apps and, thus, more developers. So hop over to https://os-sci.com and get educated.
Why don't you join our booth at the Open Source event on 23 November 2024 in the Lochal in Tilburg.