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by emberdaway 2141 days ago
Some Flippers have an i.MX6 running Kali Linux, but they do seem like completely different products.

Many more radios, but many fewer buttons and pixels.

It's nice that we have so many options for tiny computers these days, but sooner or later, someone is going to have to find something useful to do with them.

The UI and developer experience has never gotten quite good enough to drive a market the size of smartphones or laptops, so...what are we doing here? Is it time to acknowledge that the masses don't particularly want general-purpose computing machines? That there isn't much of a market for anything that isn't plug-and-play? That's a depressing thought.

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> someone is going to have to find something useful to do with them

Looking at that pocket pc website... If that usb c port could drive a display it might be interesting to dock that thing and get a full desktop experience. Then take your work with you when you are ready to go mobile. On buses and trains or other places where it might be clumsy to use a laptop.

I guess this was a thing many people have fantasized about for a long time but nobody has really made practical. I guess laptops, phones and tablets being separate entities is good enough.