Originally posted by awesz
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A workable scenario would be where applications are written to generate two independent interfaces: one for a small-screen-touch mode and one for a big-screen-keyboard-mouse mode. The app will switch interface depending on signals it gets from the Desktop/OS about which mode the device is in.
If an application only supports small-screen-touch mode, then it can still function fine when the system is in big-screen-keyboard-mouse mode; it just needs to be possible to operate it without multi-touch. If an application only supports big-screen-keyboard-mouse mode, then it can't so gracefully made to work in small-screen-touch mode, but that's OK.
The benefits of a convergent experience should be obvious. I'd LOVE such a device. My current, main desktop computer has less computing power than a typical modern smart phone. So if someone made a functioning convergent phone OS, I could have a phone which is also my main PC. I could carry it everywhere and have all my stuff in one place without having to rely upon sovereignty & privacy destroying cloud apps and without having to deal with complicated and constraining synchronization systems.
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