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So, effectively—your phone is your computer? This is awesome. This is what general purpose computing was meant to be.

Marketing caused us to regress to the fragmented landscape of gimmicky special purpose devices that we have today.

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On recent droids this works surprisingly well. I have a keyboard in my bag instead of my laptop now.

A shame Google's Pixels don't support wired video output.

Yeah, it's a shame Google never wired up those video-out pins on the SoC. It still rubs me the wrong way that evidently Google could have enabled video-out but chose not to for whatever reason.

The issue of display is the only thing that keeps me dragging a laptop around. I've been keeping an eye on monitor replacement AR glasses but looks like I'll be waiting another decade or so for anything consumer ready.

http://nexdock.com/

I have an ASUS Zenscreen MB16A. It's very portable, has a battery, touchscreen, speakers, input from either micro HDMI or USB C. The only disadvantage is that the battery will only last a few hours unless you have it plugged into usb-c charger, and I haven't worked out a way of charging it and giving it a usb-c signal at the same time yet (so when I'm using it at my desk I use the micro HDMI input).

I sort of agree. It wasn't marketing it was the failure of regulators to enforce the same sort of regulations they used against Microsoft to stop apple et al from becoming monstrous entities in the back of policies that stifle innovation and limit choice.

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