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Dell's Mobile Connect Application Will Allow Users To Easily Mirror Their Smartphone on PC; To Come Pre-installed On Company's Future PCs (venturebeat.com)
From a report on VentureBeat: Smartphones and computers were designed in different eras, and they don't really work well together, forcing us to split our time between them. But Dell is trying to change that with Dell Mobile Connect software, which makes the two devices more interoperable. [...] You can now make and receive phone calls directly from your computer, and you can also send and receive text messages on your PC screen. This allows you to stay connected on your PC without worrying that you're missing phone notifications or calls. And you can use any Android app on your PC. That allows you to bring your small-screen apps like games to a bigger screen. If your computer doesn't have a touchscreen, you can control the mirrored phone game with a keyboard and mouse. [...] Dell will preload the software on new Dell consumer and business PCs, and it has a free smartphone app that works on either Android or iOS. Dell Mobile Connect will be available on all new Dell Inspiron, XPS, Vostro, or Alienware purchased worldwide in January 2018 or later.
Smartphones and computers were designed in different eras, and they don't really work well together, forcing us to split our time between them.
I feel so bad when I'm awakened in the middle of the night, and there's my PC sitting on my chest, demanding a fair share of the time that I had given to my phone.
Informative: It's been that way for iOS and Macs for a few years now. Not having to grab your phone to reply to a message is extremely helpful.
Trolling: Granted it only works for iMessage, but people on Linux/Windows/Android don't matter.
#DeleteFacebook
Now there is an absolutely epic security fail in the making ... an application with tethers your phone and PC together, to allow you to control either from the other.
Which pretty much means a guaranteed attack surface against both of them.
This positively smacks of a remote exploit which is inevitable.
And it's more crapware which comes bundled with a PC to make it even slower and more annoying to use.
I'm sorry, but over and over when companies try to add convenience, they absolutely fuck up both privacy and security.
If that happens, it won't be for years to come.
Sorry, my desktop is an 8-core/16GB RAM unit with several TB of attached storage and two fairly big displays attached.
Not only can't a mobile OS provide me with that level of resources, the OS itself is incapable of replacing a desktop.
I own both Android and iOS devices, and neither is up to the task of replacing my desktop, and both are a LONG way away from it.
Eventually they may get there, but at present, the mobile OS's are too stripped down, the hardware is too small, and the OS itself hasn't been designed to do this. At present, the mobile OS would need to essentially morph into the full blown OS it wants to replace.
Your work may be something which can reduce to what you can do on a smart phone, but for many of us, it simply isn't happening.
Despite claims to the contrary, neither the hardware nor the OS are anywhere NEAR being able to replace a desktop machine.