Personally, I was shocked that they did the thing that people have been asking them to do for years. I expected them to continue to dig their heels in and ship another halfstep / half-assed measure.

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    A small box you can stick into 3 different cases, one looking like a laptop, another like a tablet and another like a phone, can.

    Or a phone you stick into the former two, like a dock station. One could do this with Ubuntu Phone, sadly they failed.

    One can argue that the case of a MacBook and its screen and the keyboard account for much of its cost, but I think the fact itself that it’s a single device with different UIs would make many situations more convenient. No need to synchronize files - it’s already the same storage medium. No need to charge 3 separate devices. No need to stop your work when switching.

    And yeah, I still think the “computer” part costs a lot.

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        Has been done before by whom and for what?

        Say, the particular case could have been a failure because of Android not being a very good desktop OS, or the hardware being too weak. I can’t think of a precedent though, even such.

        Deemed impractical by whom and for what?

        Say, if it was a braindead monkey or an Apple fanboy, then irrelevant.

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          You guys sure display a crazy obsession with “Apple Fanboys” in this sub… The amount of Applephobia… Phew! As if the new release had you all flustered or something…

          Gotta take a bite and taste the Apple at some point!

          Can’t stay in the closet forever, ya know?