# Apps with no desktop functionality

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apps-with-no-desktop-functionality/960609>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 7, 2022, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apps-with-no-desktop-functionality/960609 "2022-03-07T11:51:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apps-with-no-desktop-functionality/960609/41 "2022-03-09T18:26:42Z")

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> [@TwoCarrotSnowman](#):
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> It’s a shame that approaches like [Windows Continuum](https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/continuum) and [Samsung Dex](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_DeX)

I played with Samsung Dex on my old Galaxy S8 some. At first Samsung crippled it by requiring a “Dex compliant,” aka “bought from Samsung,” dock. When they eased that restriction I could plug my phone into a cheap USB-C multi-function adapter and get my phone on a monitor with a keyboard and stuff attached.

It was a cool party trick, but the S8 just wasn’t quite fast enough to be useful. Browsing and apps were a bit sluggish. 5+ years or so on, I bet current top-of-the-line phones would work better.

The problem is that I think cloud storage has filled the niche a docking phone was hoping to offer. The idea being I could create (for example) a spreadsheet in desktop mode, then go out into the field and reference or update my spreadsheet just on the phone. I do that now, but because the spreadsheet is stored in the cloud, not because it is stored on the all-in-one phone/desktop device.

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