US antitrust case against Apple’s App Store exclusivity is ‘firing on all cylinders’::The US antitrust case against Apple’s App Store exclusivity is “firing on all cylinders” according to the head of the…

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    10 months ago

    I doubt it will be a decade or 2 we are basically there on iPad and android can do this. If Apple opens the flood gates on this devs will jump aboard quickly.

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      10 months ago

      android can do this

      How so? You mean running a full Linux VM or something? Android doesn’t run any desktop apps natively.

      if you mean the tablet UI mode, yeah, that’s an easy thing for Apple to implement. I think they already have, more or less. iPadOS already has mouse support.

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        10 months ago

        I’m referring to Samsung and dex mode. There are phones that do this, I just don’t know the official name.

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          10 months ago

          Dex mode and spoofing magnetic strips are the two things I really miss about using a Samsung device.

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            10 months ago

            What do you think about the s20 as a device today?

            I have an iPhone 15, but I need to have a backup phone on hand for my work. I was thinking of selling my old xr and getting the s20 as they cost about the same.

            Not sure if it’s just better to hold onto the xr.

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              10 months ago

              My wife is still using her S20+ and has no intention of changing anytime soon. I think it’s still a really solid device that should stick around for a while.

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                10 months ago

                Does she ever use the dex mode? This is particularly interesting to me, but it doesn’t seem that many people use their phone that way.

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                  10 months ago

                  She doesn’t, but she doesn’t have a usecase for it. I used it a lot. My work takes me to a lot of different sites run by my company and all our desk workstations have a USB-C dock with monitors, a mouse, and a keyboard. So, if I was unexpectedly without my laptop, I could work reasonably well with just my phone plugged in.

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                    10 months ago

                    Thanks, it’s too bad that Apple hasn’t implements this yet.