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In such a future the iPhone and android ecosystem is dead? Because a single $1k phone is a hell of a computer. So if you can still buy a phone you can still get
by mememememememo 7mo ago
In such a future the iPhone and android ecosystem is dead? Because a single $1k phone is a hell of a computer. So if you can still buy a phone you can still get a computer. Local AI aside these are very capable.
- jagged-chisel 7mo agoMaybe we’ll finally get some good tools to make real productive work possible on phones.
- Angostura 7mo agoLike a large screen and a keyboard? Hello Mac Neo
- kingleopold 7mo agoI see they are offering to macos for iphone pro and ipad pro next years with subsc. ? or via upgrade with price I mean it's now possible more than ever
- mememememememo 7mo agoHello HDMI adaptor and magic keyboard
- Angostura 7mo agoWrong OS though.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 7mo agoVirtual desktop casting, a killer HID product, and what else do you need?
- pjc50 7mo agoiOS is apparently going to have mandatory age gating, so likely that will come to Android as well.
- mememememememo 7mo agoI was trying to avoid the software side of this argument as it is a worm cannister. I was just musing from a hardware availability point of view. That said.... hopefully at least on Android side you can get a free (as in unchastified) OS to run on it. Until they come for the HW.
- tavavex 7mo agoThe ability to unlock the bootloader on most vendors has already degraded from "Do whatever you want!" to "Here, jump through these hoops here, give us all your data and wait a long time" to "What? No of course you can't do that!". Google can remove that functionality from Pixels at their first whim. I don't think this avenue will remain open for long. Smartphone hardware is powerful, but it's completely subservient to software that can't be removed or replaced.
- layer8 7mo agoYou don’t really own an iPhone in terms of being a computer. It’s different for certain Android phones where you can install a custom OS. Those are also less powerful, however.