Why haven't Mobile OSes migrated to larger devices / form factors, ie laptops and desktop ? Especially Android.
I understand Apple has hang-ups about keeping on sellling MacOS devices, and that *some* of us need a full-fledged legacy OS. But around me, most people would be happy with Android on a big screen instead of Windows, avoiding the different apps, UI, all the admin work. OEMs actually tried it very early on, but dropped it because Google didn't support them at all.
What made Google not do it and leave Windows time to regroup (and now they're having to tack Android on top of ChromeOS in a graceless kludge). And why is Apple so shy about sliding desktop iOS between tablets and full-fledged Macs ?
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Why haven't Mobile OSes migrated to larger devices / form factors, ie laptops and desktop ? Especially Android.
I understand Apple has hang-ups about keeping on sellling MacOS devices, and that *some* of us need a full-fledged legacy OS. But around me, most people would be happy with Android on a big screen instead of Windows, avoiding the different apps, UI, all the admin work. OEMs actually tried it very early on, but dropped it because Google didn't support them at all.
What made Google not do it and leave Windows time to regroup (and now they're having to tack Android on top of ChromeOS in a graceless kludge). And why is Apple so shy about sliding desktop iOS between tablets and full-fledged Macs ?
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