What are we going to do about mobile? [OT]

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d]

I *strongly* agree with the notion that mobile/ARM/iOS/'droid/etc needs 
to be a major part of D's immediate future.

However...

On 04/06/2017 01:24 AM, Joakim wrote:
> I have been saying for some time now that mobile is going to go after
> the desktop next
> (http://forum.dlang.org/thread/rionbqmtrwyenmhmmggx@forum.dlang.org),
> Samsung just announced it, for a flagship device that will ship tens of
> millions:

If you look into the details and current reality of the S8's docked 
mode, *at best* it's equivalent to Windows 8.0 and will remain so for at 
least a couple years or so: It's connecting a keyboard/mouse/monitor to 
a software ecosystem that is still 90% tailored for handheld formfactor.

Ie, at best, it's going to be awhile before it's docked mode is 
realistically usable as a Win/Lin/OSX replacement (as opposed to a 
mobile projected onto a 20" screen). And by then, they'll be building 
hype for Galaxy S10 or so.

Not saying it won't happen at some point in the near-to-mid future, but 
time has proven that each of these attempts, individually, only each 
have a modest chance of really taking off (and frankly, I've seen other 
attempts that did a better job - namely the abandoned one Ubuntu had 
been working on, which ran the *actual* Ubuntu desktop when you plugged 
in monitor/keyboard/mouse). Even if Samsung does succeed in making the 
Galaxy a genuine desktop option, it's definitely not going to happen 
within the S8's lifetime. This is just the "early adopter tech-preview" 
device.

>
> D is currently built and optimized for that dying PC platform.

This is just hyperbole. Declining != dying.