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Is it real individuality or fake individuality? All those devices are already general purpose Turing machines that the manufacturers go to great effort and leng
by donkeybeer 3y ago
Is it real individuality or fake individuality? All those devices are already general purpose Turing machines that the manufacturers go to great effort and lengths to restrict, writing millions of lines of code, developing cryptographic systems etc to lock them down. A turing machine can run anything, the 'individuality' is just a fake restriction. There is nothing stopping you from running a general piece of software or os on any hardware that meets some minimum requirements. No reason android couldn't run on an 'iphone hardware' or ios on an 'android hardware'. Not the quotes I used, the hardware is just some general purposes CPUs, RAMs etc there is nothing magically 'iPhone' or 'Android' about it.
Almost all differences among the various modern phones, laptops are mere software,
the software is where the individuality is. Hardware differences exist in degree rarely in kind (megapixels of cameras, gb of ram etc) and even if some new type of hardware or sensor comes out its just a matter of developing a proper interface for the cpu, os etc.