I guess I will sound a little crazy, but the way Samsung phones can just plug into a monitor and become a desktop seems like it has a much bigger potential to change the way we use computers than what Microsoft is doing. Microsoft products are so half-assed these days, you can barely work in the cloud let alone get a spreadsheet to fill in cells the way you expect.
I plug my S25 Ultra into my work dock and use my mechanical keyboard and ergo mouse to pay my bills. It’s honestly such a wonderful feature. I have like 5 apps open at the same time in small windows and it’s just so much nicer.
Install sunlight on my gaming desktop and then moonlight on my phone and now I’m playing AAA games with almost zero latency on my work setup. All powered by my phone. Very nice.
Samsung launched DeX almost a decade ago (and it is genuinely useful, I use my tablet from time to time as a laptop replacement when I really want to travel light.)
Android finally came up with a desktop mode, what, a month ago?
I guess I will sound a little crazy, but the way Samsung phones can just plug into a monitor and become a desktop seems like it has a much bigger potential to change the way we use computers than what Microsoft is doing. Microsoft products are so half-assed these days, you can barely work in the cloud let alone get a spreadsheet to fill in cells the way you expect.
That was Microsoft’s goal with Windows Phone and Windows 8, it just never took off
Ubuntu also tried (not sure if MS or Canonical was first)
That’s interesting!
I plug my S25 Ultra into my work dock and use my mechanical keyboard and ergo mouse to pay my bills. It’s honestly such a wonderful feature. I have like 5 apps open at the same time in small windows and it’s just so much nicer.
Install sunlight on my gaming desktop and then moonlight on my phone and now I’m playing AAA games with almost zero latency on my work setup. All powered by my phone. Very nice.
That’s a feature of Android, not anything Samsung is doing (unless they’re contributing these features to mainline AOSP)
Samsung launched DeX almost a decade ago (and it is genuinely useful, I use my tablet from time to time as a laptop replacement when I really want to travel light.)
Android finally came up with a desktop mode, what, a month ago?
Samsung started it, Google only started working on it for Android recently.