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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness Has CPU, memory, storage, and is user programmable.
by semanticHurt 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness
Has CPU, memory, storage, and is user programmable.
Smells like a computer to me.
The first “computers” were people. A pedant might say the entire industry moved on from “computers”.
- madeofpalk 6y agoNo, Apple Computers legally changed their company name to just Apple many years ago after they introduced the iPhone.
- semanticHurt 6y agoA legal name change means they stopped making “computers” from an engineers perspective? Banal political filings have little bearing on what makes a computer.
- mmmmmbop 6y agoNo one claimed Apple stopped making computers, so you're attacking a straw man here. All that was pointed out is that there is no Apple Computer (note the capitalization) company anymore, as it was renamed to Apple Inc. in 2007.
- semanticHurt 6y agoWhat’s the difference between a computer and a “mobile device”? OP made a pointless semantic separation.
- madeofpalk 6y agoI interpreted "OP" as mentioning "Apple Computer" for emphasis, as in they are a computer company, not a fitness company. This was a flawed comment because the premise was incorrect - they stopped being "Apple Computer" a long time ago. Yes, Apple makes computers like macs and iphones and watches. A huge part of their "watch computer" is fitness, and they have an on-demand fitness video service to accompany that.
- CamperBob2 6y agoNeat article. It occurs to me that much of the history of interactive fiction consists of exploiting players' sense of functional fixedness.