Let your imagination run wild.
What would an iPhone with a maxed-out M1 Max chip inside it look like?
What would be its capabilities?
How would a powerful chip like that change the device we're all so familiar with?
In an android phone, it would be game changing. Even now, galaxy flagships ship with an almost good-enough desktop environment when you connect an external monitor. With a much more powerful and efficient chip, that will finally get pushed into proper usability.
This to some extent is possible now, on many Android flagships it’s possible to run a desktop environment, but getting actual Mac OS and it’s software catalogue would be far more desirable than what’s currently available on those Android systems.
Getting this CPU to run in a phone form factor would be a serious game changer - this increase in horsepower and homogenization between the two platforms would make it so this would be a major selling point: “The best of iOS and Mac OS, on one device”.
I think these devices are going to become more tied 1:1 to our individual identities. Where my phone is a digital extension of my self. Acting as my wallet, gov ID, work ID, stores any info about me (or the private keys to get at the data in the cloud). Etc.
It’s really already to that point, it’s just not fully baked the way I describe above. But I think it’s highly likely to be exactly this eventually.
As a person in IT, I see an obvious change where hardware is still separated for people from person and work. people say they don’t want work on their personal devices, but then they’re the first to break that rule. Convenience is key.
So I think the solve is the same we’ve done elsewhere: 1 hardware device, multiple virtual spaces on top, all tied to the me that is the ID.
This is exactly what Microsoft attempted with Windows Phone. It worked but didn't work. It worked just fine for application that had an adaptive UI that works just a good on the desktop as on a small touch screen. starting a desktop app on the phone was not a good experience.
Yes, Apple could have a better shot at getting this to work if the phone and laptop had the exactly same hardware and because of their appstore. But having the same hardware in both devices is not enough. They would also for need to turn the MacOS into a gigantic iPhone with a touch Screen.
They would have to recreate their own version of Windows (8) 11's vision and implement an UI that works both with mouse/keyboard and touch.
I bet they are working on this, but I suspect we are many years away before we see a MacBook with a touch screen.
Apart from that, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok will load faster? Yay, I guess?
My new phone has Dex but I don't really see how it's any better than just hooking to the TV by MHL HDMI adapter was. I don't really understand what Dex offers over the old MHL.
I couldn't what? I used to hook my old Note 3 via MHL to the TV and use a keyboard/mouse with vnc.
I still don't get what Dex offers beyond that. I'm trying to understand the difference between Dex and just hooking an external screen to the phone like before.
> Let your imagination run wild.
An entirely new product. Smart glasses by Apple.
This is where Apple 'attempts' to compete in AR and VR very seriously along side their own VR headsets.
How?