I'm not a huge buyer of the "your phone is like a mainframe in your pocket" thing. Maybe there's deep historical similarities but I think your phone is so much

I'm not a huge buyer of the "your phone is like a mainframe in your pocket" thing. Maybe there's deep historical similarities but I think your phone is so much more powerful than most mainframes ever were that the analogy seems misplaced. Also the software has, well nothing in common at any practical level. Altogether I don't really see any parallel between phones and mainframes except they're both computers and both run a distant descendant of unix. And I don't recall that many mainframes running unix or even TCP/IP. They're similar in that they are computers but hey lots of things are.