Running desktop programs on your phone requires some tweaking to work.
I‘m curious to see how Ubuntu Touch addresses this. Nowadays smartphones are just normal computers, so you have to wonder whether the historic restrictions of Android and iOS are still relevant. I‘m inclined to see it as a user-interface problem only (small screen, touch vs click), which is a fully solved problem on web, with responsive layouts. Not sure what happened to Windows, but that’s also quite old and maybe it was just not well designed.
I’d wager they don’t. The UI of apps is not the responsibility of the OS. It’s still not useless to be able to run desktop apps on a mobile device - while you’d probably struggle to use them on a 5" phone, most will be useable on a 12" tablet.
And - while annoying - you are able to zoom in on modern mobile OSes, so you don’t need a stylus to press tiny buttons.
I‘m curious to see how Ubuntu Touch addresses this. Nowadays smartphones are just normal computers, so you have to wonder whether the historic restrictions of Android and iOS are still relevant. I‘m inclined to see it as a user-interface problem only (small screen, touch vs click), which is a fully solved problem on web, with responsive layouts. Not sure what happened to Windows, but that’s also quite old and maybe it was just not well designed.
I’d wager they don’t. The UI of apps is not the responsibility of the OS. It’s still not useless to be able to run desktop apps on a mobile device - while you’d probably struggle to use them on a 5" phone, most will be useable on a 12" tablet.
And - while annoying - you are able to zoom in on modern mobile OSes, so you don’t need a stylus to press tiny buttons.
Ah yes, it should indeed not be strictly required to function. But there is a framework (why it’s called Ubuntu Touch in the first place)!