SHIFT: The Third Time I Tried Convergence

In 2013 I bought an Ubuntu Phone. Not because I needed a new phone, but because the demos kept showing one specific thing: plug the phone into a monitor, and it became a desktop. Same device, same apps, no second OS. I wanted that to be real. I didn't just buy one. I was twenty, and I started writing to OEMs and ODMs, asking for datasheets and reference devices, half-convinced I could port a convergent shell onto something I'd eventually sell. What I got instead was a crash course in why phone h