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Before mobile phones were invented, no definition of the phone did include: - can be carried in your pocket - are wireless - have high-resolution screens - are
by kjksf 9y ago
Before mobile phones were invented, no definition of the phone did include:
- can be carried in your pocket
- are wireless
- have high-resolution screens
- are supercomputers, by standards of 1984
- can send video just as easily as voice
Some words describe function, not a list of ingredients.
Some words change meaning over time.
Sometimes the thing described changes drastically, like bananas http://www.businessinsider.com/banana-fruit-changes-history-2016-2/ http://www.businessinsider.com/banana-fruit-changes-history-...
We didn't create a new word to describe iPhone.
Just Mayo has more in common, functionally speaking, with egg-based mayonnaise than iPhone has with rotary phone or Tesla with Ford's Model T.
- Turing_Machine 9y agoAn iPhone can make a phone call. Therefore it is a phone. Things that do the same things as iPhones without the phone functionality are called iPods. "Just Mayo has more in common, functionally speaking, with egg-based mayonnaise" Mustard, catsup, ranch dressing, and many other condiments also have a lot in common with mayonnaise functionally. That doesn't make them mayonnaise.