Is that really how people envision using Continuum? And all those cables. Sure, you can have a kiosk, with a fixed monitor, keyboard and mouse setup at your office or home all the time, but does that really make sense. Then you can market real reasons for people to take interest in Continuum, along with its byproduct Windows Mobile.

My suggestion to Microsoft “throw as many rubber tipped darts at the pegboard as you can and see if you can get a couple to stick”. That’s going to keep Continuum and the Display Dock in “Geek Status” limbo for the time being. But no one has really come up with some solid end use scenarios. Everyone loves the concept and might want to try it out. My end use needs have changed since then, but not the excitement of transforming my pocketable device into a full blown computer.Īnd this is where I think Continuum’s problem currently lies. Back then, when I found someone willing to listen to my rambling, I would start talking about how my Palm Pilot could be plugged into a dock connected to a $200-$300 dumb terminal (when laptops cost $1000+), allowing me to work more efficiently on a big screen. I would have loved using this 15 years ago when I regularly traveled multiple times a week to different company sites. While the resolution was not ideal, and my phone was losing juice quickly (even while sitting on a wireless charger) I understood how and why Continuum could become a very important thing. Three days after I powered on on my Lumia 950, I had a USB-C to Display Port adapter (only 1366 x 768) connected to an extra 23” monitor to see what all the fuss was about.

Sorry for the click-bait title, but I am hoping to get Microsoft’s attention and catch them in a “duh” moment.

Microsoft display dock.