My husband works very closely with the administration of our alma mater due to the vast amounts of recruitment he's done there, also his dad worked there for a few years and still has contacts. While he's sort of lukewarm and withholding enthusiasm for the S8 itself, he is very interested in how DeX turns out. He believes something like this will be important in the future if companies don't muck it up.
If it takes off, I'm pretty sure he will pitch the scenario I mentioned to some powers-that-be at our university...whether they listen to him without his promising to help fund something like that, I don't know. We aren't the Rockefellers so, lol...good luck with that. The university was always hitting me up for donations even when I was trying to survive on minimum wage after graduation during a regional micro recession and after not being able to get a job even at their book store. Now over 25 years later they are obnoxious at shaking down alumni whether they've done well or not, but especially if they've done well. They treated my husband like rubbish as a student so he's not exactly in love with them. I give them the stink eye
because they waste tons of money from the state slapping names of politicians on their constantly refurbished buildings while campus security is at an abysmal low, especially for female students safety. But I digress.
He had thought Apple would be first out of the gate with this paradigm after Microsoft failed to make a go of it, but that didn't happen. But you know Apple, they like taking their time perfecting things so they could still take the game. The big question is will customers see utility in this or will everyone dismiss it as niche. It really doesn't matter to the consumer who does it, I guess, as long as someone does it, does it well, and circumstances smile on it to go mainstream.
It will be interesting to see if Samsung has enough marketing presence to get lets under this. Microsoft didn't have enough market share. Also, I'm not sure how well Continuum worked. I expressed interest in it but my husband talked me out of buying into it because he saw how dead things were for them.
