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Which they never advertised it to be. Nor is my toaster and my oven or my xbox

• bhelkey 2y ago
  ~70% of the 8 billion people in this world use a smartphone [1]. It is the primary computer for a huge percentage of these people [2]. Comparing mobile phones to toasters, ovens and gaming consoles is disingenuous. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/203734/global-smartphone-penetration-per-capita-since-2005/#:~:text=The%20global%20smartphone%20penet https://www.statista.com/statistics/203734/global-smartphone... [2] https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mobile-tablet https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mob...
  • sbuk 2y ago
    It's equally disingenuous to compare them to "general purpose computers" too, in that case. A primary computing device doesn't have to be a "general purpose computer".
  • rahkiin 2y ago
    It might be the primary communications device. So maybe we should look at our definition of computer in this context. As almost everything contains software programmable controllers these days, that cannot be the definition.
  • _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
    (Though only in a small percentage of the world are those smartphones primarily iOS devices....)
• fsflover 2y ago
  Did you want Apple's ads on iPads? They definitely do advertise it as a replacement for a computer.