Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

Post by flukus » Wed, May 17, 2017, 12:42 AM UTC

zeotroph wrote: post #35

I am really surprised that the "single computing / storage device" idea which can switch between different screens and input methods seamlessly (and maybe support plug-in CPUs) is just is not happening, though the concept here is a small step in that direction. Having everything in the cloud seems to have made this somewhat redundant for most users, though I still hope one day I can carry all my data around, of cours…

Post by pdsouza » Wed, May 17, 2017, 12:51 AM UTC

excalibur wrote: post #85

> Maru Mobile is built on the latest Android Marshmallow. Should we tell them?

Post by Bakary » Wed, May 17, 2017, 12:55 AM UTC

fps wrote: post #43

cwyers wrote: post #28

If you have a monitor, mouse, and keyboard, you may was well have a computer. Seriously, if you have a laptop-like enclosure for all those things to make them portable, adding a SoC to make it a PC is what, $20-$40 to be on par with this in terms of compute? And last I checked, it's still not The Year Of The Linux Desktop. This is gonna crash and burn.

You don't get the value proposition. This isn't for cost saving, it's for time saving and organization. Here's where we are today: If I spend any significant amount of time away from one of my devices (phone, laptop, desktop), it piles up with dozens of notifications. Even with cloud based apps, there's no shared state. So when I get back to a device, I have to clear away all the notifications, assuming that they mus…

Post by pdsouza » Wed, May 17, 2017, 1:02 AM UTC

mikejmoffitt wrote: post #158

Can this be used with a wired keyboard and mouse on most phones?

Post by cyc115 » Wed, May 17, 2017, 1:20 AM UTC

sangnoir wrote: post #175

HenryBemis wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1! The way I see it, this is a "toy" (for the time being). The "2013 devices" makes me thing that this is a "toy" for people like "us" that have a Nexus rotting away somewhere and "it would be cool to fool around on your 30-inch screen and nothing more! It would be better if they would up-front say "this is not secure", "this is a demo", "this is a toy", "this is not the OS you're looking for". Imaginary CEO-CTO dia…

> The "2013 devices" makes me thing that this is a "toy" for people like "us" that have a Nexus rotting away somewhere I'm writing this on a 2013 Nexus, thank you very much! A year ago it stopped booting and I tried searching for a newer, comparable tablet to replace it: no such device exists. I ordered a replacement main board and couldn't be happier. Until someone makes a new 7-inch tablet with a full HD display, i…