The iPhone accessories that let me ditch my laptop while traveling

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There is a point here: our powerful mobile device aka smartphone is not as useful as it could be. Hardware limits could be easily overcome through the USB-C (V3 or V4).
But software is far from being helpful. This little computer we call smartphone is limited on purpose by its software, from OS up.

There are a quite small number of devices that could be used also as a desktop, but at a large software cost. The so-called blobs used to manager modems, wifi, touchscreen and the likes are not only closed source, but difficult to integrate into a desktop os so the entire desktop os is a really a VM running inside Android.
You are absolutely right. Take the modern iPhone for example (especially the latest ones) it could EASILY run MacOS. Why can’t I have dual boot between macOS and IOS? Or have a MacOS mode while IOS is running?

Cynicism tells me it does not happen because it would hurt Mac sales? But I wonder if it really would?
 
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