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Comment Magic Trackpad; someone else's monitor (Score 1) 269

You still have no way of operating the GUI elements. Phones have a touchscreen interface.

When the phone is in "pretend to be a desktop" mode, with a Bluetooth keyboard and an external monitor, its touch surface would behave like a trackpad. People who have used Apple's Magic Trackpad would have little trouble adapting.

And in carrying all those bits, you might as well have brought a laptop

I didn't carry a monitor. I carried a phone, a ZAGGkeys Flex keyboard, and an HDMI video cable, and I'm using someone else's monitor that happens to be in front of me.

Comment Re: my experience: (Score 1) 269

A few categories tend to be underrepresented in a repository that contains only free software, such as games with substantial production values, players for legit copies of notable movies, software to deposit paper checks through a camera, and software to prepare this year's income tax return.

Comment Re:my experience: (Score 1) 269

What some here will miss is that availability of apps doesn't contradict this. Yes, I can buy a GPS that connects to a PC, and get some arcane navigation app for a laptop. But it makes no sense to do so.

WhatsApp is exclusive to phones. What sense does not allowing its use on laptops make? Chase Bank's check deposit app is exclusive to phones. What sense does not allowing its use on PCs with a flatbed scanner make?

Likewise with office apps for phones - they allow viewing and changing the odd item. You wouldn't create or do extensive editing there.

Unless you pair a Bluetooth keyboard and plug in an external monitor. What sense does forbidding this make, other than to make iPhone users buy more Macs?

Comment Re:Having to move (Score 1) 211

My own solutions was to get that first job in my home city

Which is difficult if nobody's advertising entry-level positions for recent graduates in your home city, as was my case. Or by "first job [...] paying peanuts" did you actually mean a minimum wage service job such as food service or retail?

Comment Re:Universal wants me to use YouTube more (Score 1) 117

They would return no hits. Shazam and Google Song Search work with specific recordings. They cannot identify a new recording of an existing song. SoundHound claims to be able to identify humming, but it failed to find matches to pop songs that I used to test. Nor can any such automated service identify the sort of comprehensive nonliteral similarity for which Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were recently busted.

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