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i basically disagree with the point that the phone is more important than the personal computer. The phone you have eveywhere, yes, but it is a worse experience
by ouid 4y ago
i basically disagree with the point that the phone is more important than the personal computer. The phone you have eveywhere, yes, but it is a worse experience, and the main thing keeping them "dominant" is the business interest in preventing you from using adblock.
In a well regulated regime, I cant imagine people using a phone when you are at home and have access to an actual computer.
- andsoitis 4y ago> the main thing keeping them "dominant" is the business interest in preventing you from using adblock. You might be right, but I doubt it. Phones allow people to connect with each other. Smart phones bundle many useful things in a small package (camera, music, communications, games, productivity, ...) in a way that a computer cannot. Mobile matters.
- ouid 4y ago>camera, music, communications, games, productivity, ... I have every single one of those things in a <3 lb laptop, and the experience of using them is between 2 and 100 times better depending on the category. I'm confused. Is your claim that the way that they are bundled is different from the way they are bundled on a laptop? Because the only way in which this is true is that I can't block ads in music or play whatever game I want on my phone.
- andsoitis 4y agoyou are carrying your laptop around on vacation to take photos? when you go out? when you go on a hike? when you are going on a run, or a bicycle ride, or you're lying on the beach or take a bus, you take your laptop out to listen to music? ...
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoIf people did this, it'd be a better world. Mobile would not have ruined our Internet and GUIs and psyche, and people would probably not take pictures anyway and live in the moment as a bonus.
- andsoitis 4y agonow that's a different argument but one I cannot agree with more.
- ghaff 4y agoI think you'd probably be surprised how many (especially young and older) people are just fine with using a phone for basically everything. >I cant imagine people using a phone when you are at home and have access to an actual computer. Even I do this and I have a spare laptop open on the dining room table downstairs basically all the time. But if I'm sitting on the couch and just want to look up something quickly, I'll absolutely use my phone. (Or my tablet but that's the thing I actually don't use much at home.) ADDED: Which is more important? That seems like fodder for a good faux-debate. They've both been important but for different reasons.