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One of the most pernicious sins of the smartphone revolution was to rebrand the "computer". We'd evolved expectations as to what we were entitled to on our own
by dTal 5y ago
One of the most pernicious sins of the smartphone revolution was to rebrand the "computer". We'd evolved expectations as to what we were entitled to on our own machines - yes, even those with a proprietary OS - and then with one weird trick, it all went in the trash. Advertising, surveillance, inability to install whatever you want - before smartphones, this sort of thing used to be unequivocally malware.
The worst part is that now the dam's broken, it's all bleeding back into "computers".
- lupire 5y agoYou're blaming smartphones for problem that exists because of the Internet. If smartphones didn't render computers irrelevant to most people, all this "bad app" stuff would have happened on computers. And the computers that don't have "bad apps" are hacked and encrypted by ransomware. Is that better? Spyware is older than smartphones.
- dTal 5y agoSpyware is older than smartphones, but back then we called it "spyware", not "ooh, the latest Android!".
- mr_toad 5y ago> The worst part is that now the dam's broken, it's all bleeding back into "computers". Back in the day, before cellular phones, mainframe and minicomputer vendors tried their best to restrict the software that could be run on “their” hardware. They realised that they could squeeze the most out of their customers that way.