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are you saying phones are running general purpose OS and apps?
by gegtik 6y ago
are you saying phones are running general purpose OS and apps?
- u678u 6y agoyes. Browser, youtube, video calls, docs, games, there isn't much they can't do.
- tasogare 6y agoThey can’t be used for local development, so hard to consider them a general computing platform. They are more akin to consoles than PC.
- posterboy 6y agoIf I wanted to programm I could get a shell on a server for example. Now touch screen keyboards are a different problem.
- entropicdrifter 6y agoThonny runs well on my Pinebook Pro, so in that case comparably wimpy ARM based Linux machines can be used for things like Python development even with an IDE. It just depends on how heavy-duty what you're trying to do is. Scripting in general runs fine on my ARM SBCs. The real trouble is if you've got something that you need to recompile every time you make a change and you don't have a cache set up.
- bullen 6y agoWhen I see truth being downvoted I try to upvote, hn would be a better place if people learned to upvote, the high karma downers are really toxic. You need a keyboard and mouse to be productive, case closed! Edit: see the toxic high karma downers even got to this one!
- 3np 6y agoMeta commenting on comment voting is against the HN guidelines and tends to get downvoted. Please review them again.
- bullen 6y agoJesus christ this place is toxic by design. I bet you the high karma people click on your profile to see how much karma you have before they push you down. Eventually the HN database will leak, it's inevitable, I'll make sure to grab a copy then.
- 3np 6y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtV_gfkLgSc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtV_gfkLgSc
- detaro 6y agoThe tooling isn't particularly nice, but on Android it is clearly possible.
- posterboy 6y agoAbstractly speaking, yes. I notice the limitations on mobile of course, but you cannot deny the potential. I'm barking up the wrong tree, am I? sorry for the misunderstanding