decryptionbecause the macbook neo has an A18 Pro SoC & 8GB of RAM in it, apple should let me plug an iPhone Pro with the A19 Pro SoC and 12GB of RAM into a USB-C/Thunderbolt monitor and use it as a Mac - charge me a $200 Mac enablement fee if you have to
Matt H@MattHatton but maybe id buy an iphone every year instead of an iphone every 5 years and a mac every 7 years
@decryption look yes but two is also more than one and i am a business genius
Bernard Sheppard@MattHatton @decryption having used phone as computer devices since *cough* windows phones, they are OK at a pinch, but...
The windows phone (Nokia something something) had a great camera, and when plugged in, usable Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, decent keyboard and mouse. Let down by not honouring typical keyboard shortcuts in the applications, so required you to use the mouse more than you would otherwise. Was a useful gimmick, and it was enough for proving a point.
Samsung Dex still works just as well - which is to say it is clunky.
@BernardSheppard @MattHatton those devices ran nerfed operating systems - apple could literally put macOS on this thing
@decryption @BernardSheppard That's it. Phones are literally running the same hardware as computers now. No reason why you can't chuck a full OS on there, conenct all the things either through a dock or wirelessly (I'm thinking specifically keyboards and mouses) and off you go.
tootbrute@MattHatton @decryption @BernardSheppard that's been the dream, right there with the year of the Linux desktop, and world peace