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[Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Alan Griffiths <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/10/15 09:54, Thomas Voß wrote:
>>> Don't lose sight of the unique selling point that the phone can be a
>>> > general purpose computer.
>>> >
>> We certainly don't. I would argue that compiling code, browsing and
>> emailing is not a typical mobile device use-case.
>> Now that does not mean that those tasks won't be executed on the
>> device, just in a different usage scenario, i.e., docked and connected
>> to
>> monitor, keyboard and mouse. A transition to a different usage
>> scenario justifies or even demands altering the lifecycle policy and
>> allowing things to
>> run in the background.
>
> I simply want a general purpose computer, not a phone that transform
> into one only with a bunch of hardware.
>

developer mode is certainly something we will explore to enable such features.

> Really, there's a phone here compiling code and could also be used to
> write emails (like this one). It doesn't *need* (or currently have) a
> monitor, keyboard, mouse or power attached for that. (And yes, I
> understand the power trade off - that's why it will be plugged in shortly.)
>
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