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> It's a decade later and this is still a fringe activity?

Manufacturers don't have much incentives for convergence. They sell less devices and less applications.

It encourages local-first, instead of cloud-first. It requires more thought on UI.

Samsung has great hardware, they could do it if they wanted. But their software seems to have no direction.



Not only that, it centralizes even more of your daily life into one device, slowly inching towards bus factor 1.

15 years from now when passports and driving licenses have gone digital, imagine dropping your phone and it smashes.

Your identification, debit/credit card, drivers license, car key, transit card.. all temporarily inaccessible.

Now imagine that you also just lost access to your only device you can do work on.

Hell no.




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