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That's actually a very difficult comparison to make, because your expectations of them are so entirely different. Will your phone: * Still be useful in 5 ye
by soneil 10y ago
That's actually a very difficult comparison to make, because your expectations of them are so entirely different.
Will your phone:
* Still be useful in 5 years
* Still be functioning in 10 years
* Still be receiving vendor support in 50 years
The actual "wow, my phone is faster than a 5-year-old desktop" makes fun headlines, but is entirely irrelevant.
- amelius 10y agoIf governments insisted that all hardware should come with a spec that runs on a universal virtual machine, then today I could probably run the old machine on my phone. But alas, thanks again to an unvisionary government, we're stuck with old hardware.
- LoSboccacc 10y agoIBM i software was compiled as platform independent binary and converted into machine specific code by the operating system. Ok, it's a propietary spec far from being open etc, but the tech is there and even better than a vm (in certain aspects)