I don't understand why in 2020 ability to dock and connect to K&M and display is not supported by most phones. There were attempts to do just that right before Windows Phone died, but hardly anyone tried this again. You now have enough RAM and CPU to run most desktop applications except maybe high end gaming. Why is it not done more?
No. Thin client requires a server somewhere. Let's say you are a small 2 person office and you scrounge around a dock and some keyboard and mouse from a thrift store next door for a buck or two. Now you tell your employee to bring their phone, you set up some applications on it and that's your investment. Even factoring in an old 20" monitor, you might still be able to scrape it together for less than $20 if you offload the purchasing of the phone itself onto the employee. What about a thin client approach
Some small businesses care about $10 in their IT budget. Yeah, because they are stupid. Why pay $10,000 for an employee per month but: - not spending 2k for a decent computer - once - not having a back up - and restore - solution (or do you think you can restore "his phone" when he quits on another persons phone?) - not grasping the simplest things about IT?
Sorry, you want to tell me, you want to use my phone connected as a "thin client" - as a computer - to one of your systems that do the real work?
Ugh. $10K per month for an employee??? A small business might get a part timer for 20 hours a week (usually to avoid paying benefits) and pay like $15 per hour, so we are talking $1200 per month or less. Most such businesses with no margin for extravagances like an extra keyboard will have issues with your numbers. In fact, the main reason some might want to avoid something like DeX is to avoid paying subscription fees for cloud version of MS Office and get a LibreOffice installed locally for free. Of cours
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Docking smartphones (Score:5, Interesting)
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I don't understand why in 2020 ability to dock and connect to K&M and display is not supported by most phones.
Because if you're dedicating desk space to a KVM dock you might as well just put a thin client there.
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No. Thin client requires a server somewhere. Let's say you are a small 2 person office and you scrounge around a dock and some keyboard and mouse from a thrift store next door for a buck or two. Now you tell your employee to bring their phone, you set up some applications on it and that's your investment. Even factoring in an old 20" monitor, you might still be able to scrape it together for less than $20 if you offload the purchasing of the phone itself onto the employee. What about a thin client approach
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Some small businesses care about $10 in their IT budget.
Yeah, because they are stupid.
Why pay $10,000 for an employee per month but:
- not spending 2k for a decent computer - once
- not having a back up - and restore - solution (or do you think you can restore "his phone" when he quits on another persons phone?)
- not grasping the simplest things about IT?
Sorry, you want to tell me, you want to use my phone connected as a "thin client" - as a computer - to one of your systems that do the real work?
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Ugh. $10K per month for an employee??? A small business might get a part timer for 20 hours a week (usually to avoid paying benefits) and pay like $15 per hour, so we are talking $1200 per month or less. Most such businesses with no margin for extravagances like an extra keyboard will have issues with your numbers. In fact, the main reason some might want to avoid something like DeX is to avoid paying subscription fees for cloud version of MS Office and get a LibreOffice installed locally for free. Of cours