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[Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:12 PM, sturmflut <sturmflut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Thomas,
>
> On 02.10.2015 10:54, Thomas Voß wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I think it is important for me to fully understand this statement before
> I reply to the other mails:
>
> Can you please explain how you mean this exactly? Because my
> interpretation is that you are saying "people really don't/shouldn't do
> e-mail and web browsing on their mobile device", which is pretty much
> what I do 75% of the time on my Android phone. I know a number of people
> who don't even have a desktop or notebook anymore, just phones and
> tablets, so they do all their browsing and mailing on the device. I
> think 90% of the devices on the market cannot even really be docked to
> anything?
>

Sure, happy to clarify. Let me first add back in the original context
of the statement:

Alan gave this example of compiling, doing mails and browsing at the
*same* time. Obviously, the focus is on
compiling here :) doing mails and browsing are just other tasks being
executed at the same time. Now mail and browsing are certainly
perfectly fine
to be done on a phone. However, the scenario of compiling, checking
mails and browsing in parallel (as in overlapping windowed mode) is
not something
very typically carried out in a mobile device usage scenario. The key
point is: compiling would require uninterrupted execution in the
background while
switching from terminal to browser to mail client. Mail and browsing
would still work, no problem with that. But: the full-blown scenario
mentioned before is
more of a desktop-ish use-case, which can happily be powered by the
phone in docked mode. It's just a difference usage scenario.

Cheers,

  Thomas

> cheers,
> Simon
>
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