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Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable (www.androidauthority.com)
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This has been hidden in developer options for a while now, but they're now releasing it officially. Limited to Pixel 8 and newer devices and no 4k yet.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Literally every Samsung Android phone has come with their Dex desktop for like 10 years too.

I fucking hate Google at this point. They're just an even shittier version of apple now. Locking down their shit for no reason, and claiming decades old innovations are actually new and theirs.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 20 hours ago

Brother, Apple wrote that playbook 🤣