Originally Posted by
LordHamster
Doing that with my iPhone, I get just a "big screen" version of what is on my phone's screen. On the samsung, you switch to what is essentially a desktop experience with resizable windows you can have side-by side like in MacOS and desktop optimized app-experience.
Yawn. It's gimmicky. Until Apple does it, then it's, "OMG INNOVATIVE!!!!!!!"
In reality, Apple doesn't want that feature in iPhones because their marketing has hypnotized their users that you MUST buy a Macbook and iPad and Airpods Pro to complete your "Going to Starbucks or WeWork" outfit. Buying more products also makes shareholders happy.
Full disclosure: I've owned many Samsung phones, and I've never used Dex. I have a laptop and desktop computer when I need to read a lot of material or write long e-mails.
Originally Posted by
StuckInYYZ
This is where Google/Android fouls up. Market research is where they need help. A good example of this is any number of "Google xxx" apps...They get an idea for an app and open it to the public... then they either cancel the app without rhyme or reason or let it die a slow agonizing death and say it wasn't popular.(Google Play Music for example or Hangouts). Unfortunately it impacts the existing users. But then again, everyone is impacted by stuff like this.
Definitely a valid gripe. It seems like Google's motto should be, "If it ain't broke, sunset it and make a new app."