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Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by adamors »

mcv wrote: post #29

There's ideas like this every couple of years, and I love the idea, but they never seem to go anywhere. I think Nokia's Maemo/Meego was the first, and it keeps popping up, but it never seems to go anywhere. I understand this one has been dead for a couple of years now too.

Would be a good HN convention to add (dead) after a project like older posts get tagged with the year.

Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by richwater »

bsimpson wrote: post #23

It's interesting that in the early 2010s, both halves of the ecosystem were talking about "convergence:" Ubuntu wanted to make its Linux render a single column on a handset and with floating windows on a larger screen. Motorola had a similar project based on Android. A dozen years later, nobody has done that well. Ubuntu gave up. Mobile-targeted Linux distributions aren't good (missing functionality, mobile UX, or bo…

> but the ecosystems are pretty well separated for most

This seems to be a product decision not a limitation. Apple cannot implement this without self-cannabalizing sales of the other.

Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by WorldPeas »

I think at this point the niche would be well-served if one could have a competent clamp-on landscape keyboard (so close, clicks keyboard) for their phone they could use to RDP into a better machine that could run while the phone is off. Additionally nice would be if the phone had a fully functional usb-c port that could do DP and usb for docking. At that point I'd have serious thoughts about retiring my backpack or nanote next. It frustrates me how close we are, if such a keyboard existed for $80 or so

Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by pydry »

bsimpson wrote: post #23

It's interesting that in the early 2010s, both halves of the ecosystem were talking about "convergence:" Ubuntu wanted to make its Linux render a single column on a handset and with floating windows on a larger screen. Motorola had a similar project based on Android. A dozen years later, nobody has done that well. Ubuntu gave up. Mobile-targeted Linux distributions aren't good (missing functionality, mobile UX, or bo…

It sounds like a nice idea in theory but I dont think demand is that high.

Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by altairprime »

mcv wrote: post #29

There's ideas like this every couple of years, and I love the idea, but they never seem to go anywhere. I think Nokia's Maemo/Meego was the first, and it keeps popping up, but it never seems to go anywhere. I understand this one has been dead for a couple of years now too.

Everywhere I might hook up my phone to a monitor there is already either a preexisting computer hooked up, my laptop with its ultra flat keyboard trackpad combo to hook up, and/or lacking the appropriate back support and table height for me for me to ergonomically use a keyboard and mouse there. This might make sense for someone who travels a lot and wants to work in odd places but the assumption that people can Find A Monitor That Has A Keyboard Flatspace In The Wild is what’s broken.

This product would have been wildly successful if they just released it as a laptop case for a phone, Framework-style. Dock your phone into the PCMCIA slot to activate the laptop, etc.

Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by WorldPeas »

ranger_danger wrote: post #6
doebler wrote: post #3

> Simply plug your phone into an HDMI screen, connect up a keyboard and mouse, and you’ve got a lightweight desktop experience you can take anywhere. No, I can't take it anywhere, because few places I go to have a HDMI screen and keyboard ready for me. And to the ones they do, I carry my laptop.

you can always bring a portable screen/keyboard with you

I've comfortably used a 7 inch tablet as a pocketable phone, such a thing with a keyboard would likely be a "complete" solution
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