Yes, and one solution proposed was to make DST voluntary for businesses, which I pointed out was nonsense, as opening times are already voluntary for businesses, nevertheless they all sychronized out of necessity.

I think there have been a few reasons for this.

I think the biggest one is that nobody could meaningfully agree on a form factor. Now, *I* always thought that a great option would be to have a 'zombie laptop' that had a keyboard, trackpad, webcam, and a battery, with a slot to slide your phone into. The phone would connect to the peripherals and give a 12" screen and a keyboard, while charging the phone in the process.

The devil, of course, was in the details. Even if Apple made such a device and molded it to the iPhone, the problem then became that a user couldn't put their phone in a case, or it wouldn't fit in the clamshell's phone slot. There would also need to be adapters to fit the different sized phones, or different SKUs entirely with per-device slots, which then also pigeonholes Apple into a particular physical form factor. That begets the "use a C-to-C cable" option, which is better, but makes it ergonomically annoying to use if one isn't sitting at a desk. A wireless option solves both of these problems, but kills both batteries in the process. Finally, there's the price point: the cost for the end user would need to be low enough that it doesn't just make sense to have two devices, AND the first-gen owners would likely feel some kind of way if they were stuck with their old phone because it meant buying a new clamshell. It works well on paper, but pretty much any real-world testing would show the shortcomings pretty quickly.

Supposed that was solved somehow...while the Samsung Fold phones are helping justify time spent in adding a multi-window interface to Android, try installing Android x86 on a VM for a bit and watch what happens. It's been a while since I tried, but the experience was pretty bad - the inability to open e-mails in new windows was particularly infuriating; many apps take exception to having multiple concurrent instances for side-by-side usage, and window focus gets pretty tricky to navigate. It *can* be done, but it ultimately felt like all-compromise, no-improvement.

Finally, there *is* such a thing, at least to an extent. Many, MANY apps are just frontends on a website. iCloud is like this, the whole Google ecosystem is like this, Salesforce is like this...for a solid number of apps, there is a browser-based frontend that works just as well, if not better in at least some cases. Data is commonly synced with Google or iCloud or Dropbox. The number of apps that are worth running on a phone, without a desktop or browser analogue, that would justify a user getting a clamshell to run that app in a larger window...is small enough that it is seldom worth dealing with all of the *other* compromises involved.

There is so much insanity in your post that your connection with reality seems pretty tenuous. Please get help before you hurt yourself.

Except when they do, and examples abound of that.

If you believe that crap you really are part of the problem.

Get your head out of your ass, you entitled twat.

Do you know there are more than two countries in the world where you can own a gun?

My uncle had a FAL at home. In NL. Because if your are part of a well-organized militia in good standing that's possible.

But we don't allow any random idiot who just wants one, to have one.

The one which threatened the other one with nukes if they rename their country.

Just free trade with a dictatorship which has control over literal slavers doing phonescams doing double digit of Billions of damage, sponsors regular cyberattacks and ransomware doing triple digit Billions of damage, which has suppressed wages with a three decade long campaign to buy foreign debt. What's the worst that can happen which is so much worse than it already is?

Rather than letting the Yuan rise, Chinese getting sweet deals on a centrally planned glut of EVs suits Xi more.

Unfortunately a lot of that glut is trash because its produced without sufficient market discipline. They can do better, and will for the major export brands, but what's the point?

If you're (simply) correct, then lots of Mediterranean cultures ought to have just-TONS of diabetics. But ... that is not so. You are missing some "hidden" variable that "directs"  sugar, carbs and alcohol into their disproportionate USA role.

You don't solve the problem at hand. Businesses right now already have the right to open whenever they see fit. But they all synchronized on a 9-5 schedule. Why is that? Because customers have to know when to expect businesses to be open, and businesses have to know when to expect their business partners to be open, so they can schedule accordingly.

Time zones are how customers and businesses are synchronized, if they are not immediate neighbors. Time zones are a result of the invention of telegraphs and railways, for the first time making it necessary to know the local time of people you can't just walk over and ask. And as long as you don't abolish long distance communication and travel, the need for time zones will continue.

Sorry about the tarnished  karma, pal. You're gold, but  talking to a pack of luzerz who don't know: Spin & Marty, Atom Squad, Playhouse 90  and Omnibus/Dave Garaway. Nor Canadian football , gals roller-derby, Weds-night fights and Bobo-Brazil / Galager Bros. Or Fabians' ( A Lion walks among Us ) brilliant jail-scene. Don't even try.

DST does not solve it, but makes it worse. If you want that additional bright hour in the evening, it will cost you that hour in winter mornings.

Remember: we are talking about Business Insider here.

Gas wok burners are ridiculously inefficient, a 3kW concave wok burner gets more than hot enough assuming the thermal protection lets it.