I remember one time I had a coworker sit down next to me with her MacBook, iPhone, iPad and iWatch and that was an “aha!” moment for me. She had spent like 5x more than she would have if 1 or 2 devices could do all of those things.
Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 22 hours agoThe whole point of the article is that the new MacBooks are running on iPhone hardware. And that therefore there’s no reason for you not being able to install MacOS on your iPhone. Even your old droid was locked down and you were not able to install a real OS which would have given you the freedom to run what you want without restrictions
artyom@piefed.social 6 hours ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
The only difference is UI. I operate my phone in my hand with my thumb, not on my lap or on a desk from a keyboard.
TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml 59 minutes ago
And the hardware. Your phone requires much harder power optimization in order to have a usable battery life. Same for size and heat dissipation. Also politics. Public cellular is tied to identity. It is structurally hostile to user-controlled, fully open, deeply optimized devices because the radio stack is certification-heavy, operator-governed, and privacy-hostile.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 50 minutes ago
For the first point, that sort of engineering is more necessary for a smaller form factor, but can absolutely be done for other computer hardware. Applying these lessons to laptops yields some amazing laptopsz for example.
As for the second point, that’s just one component in the system. You can attach a cellular modem to a PC. They just don’t tend to be built in directly.
TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml 46 minutes ago
I’m emphasizing breaking free from identity ties to devices enforced by the hardware radio. Not adding it to all devices.
It also limits open source competition in the phone market.
Steve@communick.news 22 hours ago
Its wasn’t. I rooted it, installed a few OS’s, it even ran Linux. Since the very beginning, the only limits on smartphones have been what software ‘they’ want you to run.
voidsignal@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
This. But Marketing has been very good at saying “this: phone, that: computer. not same thing”. So many times I heard “Oh but how do you want to do that on a phone?”. It’s not a phone. It has never been a phone.