Phones are computers. Phones are the most popular personal computers in the world. Many people only have a phone and no other computers.
Your Phone is an Entire Computer
Submitted 19 hours ago by JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://medhir.com/blog/your-phone-is-an-entire-computer
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paraphrand@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
It’s me. Outside work, I dumped PCs a decade back and have lived a much better digital life.
I seriously get annoyed at the amount of work it takes to keep a PC running.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I hate using a phone. It’s small, the screen is tiny, the keyboard sucks (all touchscreen keyboards suck), you can’t have more than one thing in the tiny screen at a time (yes split screen exists and Android has freeform windows, but they suck even more).
A desktop is a breeze to use. It feels liberating to use after being on a phone.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I mainly just turn mine on. Not a lot of work.
I mean, it’s been a lot of work lately because I’m learning a new OS and mucking about with shuffling some data around on a couple different drives, but for the last 5 years or so, the “work” involved in keeping my desktop running was mainly plugging it in again after moving to a new apartment.
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Ugh sounds like my nightmare. I try to keep the phone away and only use desktops or laptops. I just use the phone for calls, texts, photos, Lemmy/rss and some light web browsing.
Strive7307@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
I seriously get annoyed at the amount of work it takes to keep a PC running.
Can you elaborate more on that? In my experience unless you set up a complicated NAS or home server setup maintaining a personal computer doesn’t require much upkeep. I prefer it over a phone because of the physical keyboard and superior window / tab / organization options.
PS: Wrote this comment from my phone anyway 🥲
Steve@communick.news 19 hours ago
They have been since the beginning.
That’s literally why I got an OG Motorola Droid. I said to myself “I can have a full computer in my pocket!”JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 19 hours ago
The 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 3 hours ago
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.
Steve@communick.news 18 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.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 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.
penguin@lemmy.pixelpassport.studio 17 hours ago
I went to the Verizon store to buy an iPhone when the droid first launched, the rep said “you don’t want that phone, check this one out” and showed me the droid. So glad I didn’t get roped into that ecosystem.
I still miss CyanogenMod dearly…
Steve@communick.news 17 hours ago
Yah. It had customizations nobody has anymore.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I had an Atrix 4G back in the day.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
For me, it was around 2013 an iPad nano, thinking how awesome having an iPhone with unlimited internet would be, because I could listen anything on demand on the go Then I got my 4s as first self bought iPhone.
I realised, how macOS like it is, as I had jailbroken it.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
“right to root” would prevent so much eWaste.
I would love a variant that is like, if you stop delivering security and minor fixes/backports to a device, you have to give access to root or better even to the bootloader.umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
better yet, open source it when it gets abandoned.
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 10 hours ago
The problem is that it allows users to detect when they’re connected to a phony cell tower like the ones police and ICE use to intercept communications, and we Can’t Have That.
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It would technical possible for Apple to have dual boot, and you could boot macOS when you connect to an external display. But I guess it would not be good for business
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Not even dual boot. The core OS is the same. Just have two UI. One for phone one for desktop.
Apple will never do this because they sell hardware.
pie_enjoyer@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That wouldn’t be even needed. Just add back macos features to iOS and iPadOS
timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro 2 hours ago
It would be quite nice if they added some MacOS features back to MacOS instead of trying desperately to turn it into a mobile phone OS.
That said, Sequoia is so objectively awful it finally gave me the kick I needed to nuke my MacBook Air and install Asahi, and I’m genuinely really impressed. The only shame is having to waste 80gb of disk for a MacOS partition that I’ll never use, but otherwise it’s actually good enough to be a daily driver.
sunbeam60@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
That’s what they’re doing. They clearly would prefer people to move to iOS, that smells a bit like MacOS, as it’s a damn sight more profitable to both sell you hardware and software 30% cuts.
Reygle@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I will risk dying of laughter if THIS is what finally pisses off the Apple cult.
becausechemistry@piefed.social 19 hours ago
We have been complaining about this shit for YEARS.
NeilBru@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
And yet… you still… never mind. Not worth it.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 6 hours ago
There are “pissed off, not the same, Jobs wouldn’ta dunit” sentiments for almost every new product by Apple.
So I don’t think anything will change much.
Anyway, this is a return to roots. They were, you know, a mainstream consumer oriented company at some point. With an implicit but almost explicit claim that “we don’t do the crap others do”.
I’m optimistic. It’s quality attacking quantity. We’ve had a personal computer market with quantity winning over quality every damn year since about 2003, and it has been getting worse and worse. If the pendulum is starting to move in the opposite direction, it’s very cool.
And yes, megabytes of RAM are quantity.
But admittedly I’m a couple weeks’ old convert.
Xylight@lemdro.id 16 hours ago
Im surely not the only one who thinks this article is ai generated? it spams the exact same structure and has the typical smells
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 19 hours ago
general computing finally died to capitalism
redditmademedoit@piefed.zip 3 hours ago
This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos.
Has there ever been a time when computer geeks weren’t consider a weird group of outsiders?
BTW, I was raised on MS-DOS and it didn’t help my computer literacy one bit (heheh). I still can barely navigate my computer in the CLI, much less build anything or do anything cool from some internalized “mental model” of how a computer works. Meanwhile, there are a bunch of toddlers running around with Arduinos and doing all manners of mind blowing shit.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
You’ve built a generation that can’t extract a zip file without a dedicated app and calls it innovation.
I mean, a .tar would have made sense as example,
unzipis also a tool (“app”). And not merely for convenience, the format is not simple. Unlike tar, which you could dd to unpack.vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 6 hours ago
The quote is funny for me, I can’t extract a zip file without a dedicated application, I don’t talk the language of
moisture vaporatorsdeflate, and certainly not fast enough.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
This model is absolutely short-circuiting the brains of the Apple haters. It upends everything they’ve been complaining about for a decade; all the same arguments that had merit 10 years ago but were mostly resolved 5 years ago (meanwhile, little said about the things Apple currently is terrible about.)
This laptop is:
- cheap
- repairable
- runs a full os
It is not:
- upgradable, but what laptop is these days.
Seriously, it address three of the biggest complaints against Apple historically, and we’re supposed to be mad the phone doesn’t runs desktop OS? Was under the impression the phone didn’t run a full OS because of technical limitations?
Apple could’ve launched a $599 laptop that ran iPadOS, but they didn’t and yet there’s still complaints.
datendefekt@feddit.org 6 hours ago
It is not:
- upgradable, but what laptop is these days?
I got a used Framework for under 600€, upgraded the keyboard, speakers and motherboard. The old motherboard is now one of my home servers in a dedicated case.
voidsignal@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
upgradable, but what laptop is these days?
Oh, you poor ignorant fanboy…
blitzen@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Fair enough, enthusiast laptops do. I can’t think of a sub $1,000 mainstream consumer laptop that is.
pie_enjoyer@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Bro thinks macbook neo is upgradeable
Despair@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
ifixit.com/…/macbook-neo-is-the-most-repairable-m…
The laptop is built on an A18 Pro, a mobile chip first seen in the iPhone 16 Pro, which limits the machine to 8 GB of RAM. Storage comes in 256 or 512 GB, and whichever one you buy is the one you keep.
www.canadacomputers.com/en/search?s=sodim&filter[… They could have easily made the RAM and Storage user serviceable/upgradeable, and from what I can find, they don’t provide a way for the enduser to expand storage with a secondary SSD/HDD either, so you’re either forced to carry around an external hard drive for a product that is meant to be portable, or use cloud storage where you might not always have reliable access to the internet/data caps.
Anecdotal, but the only component that has ever failed on me is a hard drive, if that happened to me on the new mac book, it would be e-waste.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Not allowing a 1TB option certainly is a choice, and one that can be criticized. But I don’t think it’s fair to say they could have “easily” made the RAM upgrade (certainly not user upgradable) at that price point. It used the A series because they make billions of them, and ram has not been upgradable in them.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 19 hours ago
Makes me think of either the Fairphone or the Nothing Phone that originally advertised that it could be used as a desktop computer thanks to USB-C ports and I thought that was a brilliant notion. I really don’t see why Apple couldn’t just do the same. I mean, I can see why (DAT MONAY!) but it would be awesome for folks to have such flexibility with their devices.
voidsignal@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Been doing that with a Librem 5 for many years.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 18 hours ago
Librem! That’s the phone I was thinking of, not the others
Kolanaki@pawb.social 19 hours ago
No duh.
architect@thelemmy.club 16 hours ago
I’ll care about climate change the day they do.
But every time I need to throw away perfectly good electronics makes me resentful of the idea that climate change is our fault any further than the fact these fucking people breathe air in Minecraft.
Ferrous@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
So are SIM cards.
eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
People willingly buy blatantly proprietary systems, then publicly muse why they don’t have freedom to do with them what they want.