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I only glanced at the patent but I don't think it's an actual laptop. It's a dock.
Think of the Nintendo Switch.
You get to work and instead of turning on your laptop you drop your iPhone into this "laptop" dock. You get a bit more RAM and drive space, and an actual keyboard.
For lunch, you go to Starbucks and take your iPhone with you. Your work "laptop" no longer works. At Starbucks you pop your iPhone into one of their "laptops" and send some e-mails using the physical keyboard.
When you leave, you pop your iPhone out and the chassis becomes inactive. On the subway ride home that night you listen to iTunes on your iPhone and communicate with Facebook.
When you get home you pop your iPhone into your personal "laptop" dock and play the latest popular game on your iPhone, which is augmented by the GPU in the "laptop" dock (just like the Nintendo Switch).
When you go to bed you pop your iPhone out and use it as an alarm clock.
tldr;
Think less "powering laptop" and more replacing your laptop and desktop with your phone.
Think less "buying new phone every 6 months" and more "Buying a new phone and multiple phone docks every 6 months"
I imagine skype or something similiar but that would then mean everyone could listen to you if you happen to be working in the public so you need to have a headset with you at all times.
I uhm i don´t know if i would use something like that, certainly not made by apple because apple is just expensive and in my opinion inconvenient by design.
Also wouldn´t that macbook need it´s own gpu and hard drive? So all this replaces is the OS and the "motherboard"?
"Look at this great new macbook that you can´t use without an iphone! Awesome!"
Will never work on high spec machines, those things eat through power like candy. My laptop battery last 5 hours , but could power a low spec PC by 10.
Not sure about this. Average life cycle of a mobile phone is what, 24 months? Every time they release a new iphone it's slightly different to the previous model in size so that means any time you upgrade your phone you'd probably need to buy a new one of these shells.
I thought this was an all inclusion only needing the cell phone to power the laptop. Now you are saying we additional power for it to work?
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You do it through he laptop not the cellphone. You kinda have to have the laptop on and powered up.
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Laptops are always going to be far more powerful than a phone for the price. This laptop shell or whatever you want to call it would have to be pretty cheap for it to be worth it. Not to mention the fact that you would be stuck with fucking iOS, the most restrictive OS in existence. With a macbook you at least get Mac OS.
So similar to what Windows Phones do with continuum, connect your peripherals and turn it into a PC.
Just seem to be providing a "neater", but very restrictive chassis to do the same.
Would it work with anything but an apple product - doubtful.
Would it be far higher priced than individual peripherals - likely.
Would it have the variety of hardware options, to be changed or switched later - no.
Man it sure is easy to see the Apple fanboys in this thread.
Assuming Apple decides to even implement this. You know you can patent something and not do it, right?