It’s a bad analogy. Phone is the mainframe eras terminal (also dumb btw) and the internet is the time shared mainframe you “can submit jobs to”. You probably c

It’s a bad analogy. Phone is the mainframe eras terminal (also dumb btw) and the internet is the time shared mainframe you “can submit jobs to”. You probably can’t access mainframes file system directly either. That’s a security and reliability feature.