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> Apple is selling mobile phones that are not general purpose computing devices I would argue this is 100% false. They are general-purpose computing devices!
by riskable 3y ago
> Apple is selling mobile phones that are not general purpose computing devices
I would argue this is 100% false. They are general-purpose computing devices! The only reason why people think they're not is because they're locked down.
Apple got away with it so Google did the same. Yet there's really no reason why these devices should be locked down the way they are. It should be much easier to take control of our phones than it currently is and I'd argue that with the recent EU decisions regarding app stores we're about to get just a tiny little taste of what these general-purpose computers in our pockets could be.
- oneplane 3y agoI would argue that it would be nice that everything that has a CPU and RAM is a general purpose computing device, but just because it is nice doesn't mean that it is reality or an effective use of products. If we arbitrarily classify things based on what we desire instead of how they are brought to market, we might as well stop classifying things at all. As for 'general-purpose computers in our pockets', they exist, and they are brought to market as such for about two decades. They did however not turn out to be useful or viable.