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Simple solutionSimple solutionPosted Sep 20, 2011 23:37 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Simple solution by dlang Parent article: Garrett: UEFI secure booting
Why not? Turn on a bluetooth keyboard, connect an external HDMI display and off you go - it's already possible and I have actually done exactly this (typed large amounts of text on a phone connected to a HDTV and bluetooth keyboard) a few times.
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Simple solution Posted Sep 20, 2011 23:46 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
you missed where I said that it may be connected to a full size monitor and real keyboard. that's exactly what you have done.
I expect this to happen a lot, but I don't expect it to work very well with an OS optimized for a small touchscreen.
yes, it may be an 80% solution (do 80% of the work people want to do) where they only want one app visible at a time and that app full screen.
but even the people to you say do this all the time routinely pop up a separate window for a calculator that they want to have visible in front of the document they are viewing.
current OS builds designed for mobile use can't do this.
Simple solution Posted Sep 20, 2011 23:53 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Heh.
Check the features of upcoming Android IceCream. For one thing, it supports my usage scenario explicitly.
There'll be no more tablet/phone split and a single application can be designed to work on the whole spectrum of screen sizes. With some nice helper features for application developers.
So it should already be possible to seamlessly switch application mode if an external display is plugged in.
Simple solution Posted Sep 21, 2011 16:17 UTC (Wed) by JEDIDIAH (guest, #14504) [Link]
The ability of any "tablet" device to fully exploit a more conventional approach to inputs and displays will be hampered by how locked down the platform is. If you can't freely install apps, what makes you think there will be a suitable desktop style app when you want it?
The apps of your choosing simply won't be available. They won't be available due to the same underlying issue: hardware lockdown.
Simple solution Posted Sep 21, 2011 17:14 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
They'll be available if customers demand them. A locked-down device that doesn't serve the needs of its users won't exist for long.
Simple solution Posted Sep 23, 2011 3:35 UTC (Fri) by JEDIDIAH (guest, #14504) [Link]
Your post was unintentionally funny.
We're already seeing the rise of the crippled machines. That's why a certain contingent here is so worried about the subject of this thread.
Simple solution Posted Sep 23, 2011 5:07 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
And why are crippled machines on the rise? Because customers demand them. Do you disagree?
Guess my post was funny but true.
Simple solution Posted Sep 30, 2011 19:30 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]
> where they only want one app visible at a time and that app full screen
That's how 95% of users should be doing 95% of their work, windowed operating environment or not.
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