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Do you treat your phone as an appliance because that's what you wanted to do with it, or because you don't have a choice? I've looked for a good smart phone to

Do you treat your phone as an appliance because that's what you wanted to do with it, or because you don't have a choice? I've looked for a good smart phone to use as a portable computer and my efforts have been mostly frustrated. I think this may be because they're built for pennies, but maybe it's their closed nature. Android allows the user to do a lot with it but many phone services go to great lengths to prevent you from having that access, which frankly, they should not be allowed to do. They own the towers, not the device. Finding success in these closed-proprietary markets emboldens corporations to make presumptive moves such as that.

sjwright 10y ago
Between my computers, my family's and friends' computers, and the dozen virtual machines I look after, I've got enough to worry about. The last thing I want is to be sysadmin of yet another freaking computer. A smartphone appliance? Yes please. Hell yes. Gimmie gimme. Any actual computing I do requires a full sized keyboard and a reasonably large screen. For that I have a full sized desktop computer at home and a small laptop for travel. The only "work" I do on my smartphone is receive notifications.
- simbalion 10y ago
  I understand where your coming from, that is a world I've mostly withdrawn from myself. The only "appliances" I like to own are in the kitchen and utility rooms. I want every computer I own to be capable of launching nuclear missiles like I saw in that movie WarGames. ;) I don't even like having a phone. They never work as advertised and they're not even that good at being phones, but I'll never give it up because smartphones allow us to record every phone call which is a huge leap forward in protecting the little guy from the hordes of evil people who are every day trying to take advantage of us.
qwertyuiop924 10y ago
it's the keyboard. Even SwiftKey, by far the best, isn't good enough for Real Work.

sjwright 10y ago

Between my computers, my family's and friends' computers, and the dozen virtual machines I look after, I've got enough to worry about. The last thing I want is to be sysadmin of yet another freaking computer. A smartphone appliance? Yes please. Hell yes. Gimmie gimme. Any actual computing I do requires a full sized keyboard and a reasonably large screen. For that I have a full sized desktop computer at home and a small laptop for travel. The only "work" I do on my smartphone is receive notifications.

simbalion 10y ago
I understand where your coming from, that is a world I've mostly withdrawn from myself. The only "appliances" I like to own are in the kitchen and utility rooms. I want every computer I own to be capable of launching nuclear missiles like I saw in that movie WarGames. ;) I don't even like having a phone. They never work as advertised and they're not even that good at being phones, but I'll never give it up because smartphones allow us to record every phone call which is a huge leap forward in protecting the little guy from the hordes of evil people who are every day trying to take advantage of us.

qwertyuiop924 10y ago

it's the keyboard. Even SwiftKey, by far the best, isn't good enough for Real Work.