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Before smartphones, we didn't use to spend hours a day with our phones on. They're not big phones, they're mini computers.
by photojosh 9y ago
Before smartphones, we didn't use to spend hours a day with our phones on. They're not big phones, they're mini computers.
- fapjacks 9y agoYeah, historically I have tended to agree with the parent's posts on HN, but here I couldn't disagree more. Our phones are definitely closer to small workstations than embedded devices. Not only because of the available resources, but because of things like application portability. I can take an apk for my phone and run it on every other Android device on the market running a compatible API. The fact that it runs Android in the first place makes it too general purpose to be an embedded device. Now, if the parent had said our old-style brick phones were embedded devices, I would agree with him there. But not smartphones.