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Ask Slashdot: Could Android and iOS Become Popular Desktop Operating Systems?

Posted by BeauHD on from the future-operating-systems dept.

dryriver writes: For many older people, you use Windows, macOS, or Linux on the desktop, and Android or iOS on mobile devices. Nobody is screaming for an Android desktop PC or an iOS 17.3-inch laptop computer. But what about younger generations growing up, from a very young age, glued to devices with these two mobile operating systems running on it? Will they want to use Windows, macOS, or Linux just like us old farts when they grow older, or will they want their favorite mobile operating systems running -- in a beefed up and more robust form -- on desktop and laptop computers which they use for school, college, and/or work as well? Since we are on this topic -- could Android or iOS one day become reasonably usable desktop operating systems from an architectural standpoint? And could Google and Apple already be planning for an "Android and iOS on the desktop" computing future, without telling anyone about it publicly?

3 of 193 comments (clear)

  1. Only apps can app apps! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Modern app appers know that only apps can app apps, and modern app apperating apps like Appdroid and AppOS let modern app appers app apps while apping other apps!

    Apps!

  2. Re: It is the applications by denisbergeron · · Score: 3, Funny

    That why is cool too work with Microsoft word on Samsung Linux/Android DEX

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    Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
  3. Re: Betteridge's law of headlines by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually dipshit Android has a perfectly usable filesystem with tools to match.

    Lost track of the silly names...is Dipshit Android, version 8 or 9?

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