[bandushrew]

Let me use a single device but via different hardware depending on context.

Give me a phone I can plug into 2 monitors and a keyboard and interact with as a desktop, or slot into the back of a laptop case for portable computing, or put into my pocket.

[wizofaus]

Actually sounds pretty good, but how feasible is it for a phone sized device to be sufficiently high spec to run, e.g., fully featured development tools etc. I mean you need 32Gb RAM, 8 core processors and 512Gb SSDs these days just to run the basics (maybe less if using linux)...if you're doing modern game development or CAD stuff probably twice that. But... something you could dock your phone into as needed to allow a seamless experience that supplied the extra resources as needed might be feasible?

[jbc1]

I think if/when we get to the point where people with browser based workloads can just sit down at a desk and have the monitors and keyboard automatically connect to their phone, more hardware intensive software will quickly move to the cloud.

You’ll be doing game development and CAD stuff with your phone acting as a thin client.

[ris58h]

How many people who own a smartphone need to use "fully featured development tools"?

[heartbreak]

I remember when Bill Gates pitched this concept years before the first iPhone. It has been possible for a while with the right Android phones.

Still waiting on someone to make it useable.

[cowtools]

Some level of "convergence" works on linux phones (e.g. Pinephone, Librem 5), with the same "mobile" apps playing nice with the rest of the linux desktop/userspace. I think it will be the future of consumer electronics.

[asdajksah2123]

Isn't that what Samsung Dex is?