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If they called it a Macbook Air with an upside-down bulge and a detachable keyboard, would that be just as well?

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With touch screen, iOS and macOS?

Touch screen but no iOS.

macOS when the keyboard is attached, and iOS when it is not, with instantaneous switching.

One can dream… but really, this is not all that far-fetched

What would happen to the macOS applications when switching to iOS? iOS applications would be fine in macOS-mode (Mac Catalyst already exists). But, there isn't a good way to make macOS applications usable in iOS-mode.

Start with macOS CLI VM. Give it a couple of years and see how customers use it.

Or allow Linux/FreeBSD VMs.

We cureently have that on pixel devices, where you can just run windows if you want

https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/02/14/android-13-virtualiz...

We had that with linuxonDex or maruos or motorola or..

People say they want that, but when they actually do, it completely flops.

> People say they want that, but when they actually do, it completely flops.

That feature isn't yet exposed to end-users, although the plumbing is in place. So far only on Pixel devices.

There's potential for phones docking to desktops via USB-c, running both Android and Linux/ChromeOS VMs.

Except no one except a few geeks ever cared about Samsung DEX, or Windows Phone/Table continuum.

Well, it couldn't run any real programs. ARM caught up now.

I thought that was what FOSS was all about having all those people in their Internet coffee shops using Termux under DEX to compile their real programs.

Google Android (Linux) App Store 2023 revenue was over 45 billion dollars.

Google is a major contributor to Linux in support of Android and Chromebooks.

Some non-zero portion of those value flows would benefit from mobile intermittent-desktop UX.

And that is related to people not buying DEX, because?

Near native speeds. VMS. Android desktop mode. Etc. it's never a keyboard less computer. It's always a bodge on top of Android. Of course it flops.

I don't think the real thing would be good enough. The compromises can only be worse.

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