The Reason a Surface Phone Won't Fix Microsoft's Mobile Problem (windows10update.com)

Ammalgam writes: Microsoft's CMO recently admitted that Microsoft was behind in the mobile arena and needed time to build a competitive phone. In the Windows community however, some feel that the Windows Phone platform is out of time. On Windows10Update.com, the author discusses some of the reasons why a "Surface Phone" might not be enough to fundamentally change public perception about Microsoft mobile phones.

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Re:Oh good.

[BitZtream]

I know I'm being an example of what you pointed out as the follow up comment ... but ... bear with me anyway, please.

My wife is the perfect example of someone who would want a Surface Phone (excepted she'd really want an OSXiOS phone since she's a mac person). She RARELY uses her MBA, but when she does its because a phone just isn't the right input/display device, its pretty much never due to lack of CPU power.

If should could simply take that phone, and plug it in with Thunderbolt and it instantly becomes a very low powered but fully featured laptop ... with say 256GB of storage? She'd never own another laptop.

99% of the time, the phone is perfect. The other 1% doesn't require a desktop PC, it requires a big display and a real keyboard/mouse. Having all her data, always being connected, and only needing essentially a KVM to turn it into a practical 'desktop pc'? Awesome-sauce.

I want the exact same thing, but I require more CPU power so its not going to work for me for a few more years, but I do dev work on her MBA on occasion and its really not that bad for most things if you can keep your working set small enough. You aren't going to want to run freebsd's 'make world' on an MBA as a regular thing, but rebuilding init or sshd is certainly tolerable.

Again, I may be a corner case, but I don't think she is. She's a vet, so being able to do almost everything on her phone (with a different UI than full desktop mode!, same apps) and then just plugging in a keyboard or display for the rest? Wherever she is because her phone is ALWAYS with her ...

I think that would be the death of 'PCs' much like cell phones killed off the low end film and digital camera market entirely.