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It is a terrible idea. No matter their popularity phones have tiny screens and limited, slow input methods compared to desktop PCs. And mobile OSes have to be provided with special workarounds to deal with the absolutely terrible mobile IP networking that cannot even keep a TCP session open reliably.

Convergence to a user interface that provides the crutches for these limits of mobile platforms neccessarily gimps the desktop UI too.



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