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Not comparable, I would say that a computer is a broader term than telephone. Nowadays, telephony is just another application not a device, so an iPhone is a c
by huxley 13y ago
Not comparable, I would say that a computer is a broader term than telephone.
Nowadays, telephony is just another application not a device, so an iPhone is a computer that does telephony as one of its primary tasks and your desktop is a computer that does telephony via Skype.
I don't worry about where the lines are drawn because the lines are mostly arbitrary and imaginary.
- danmaz74 13y agoAnd without lines the names lose their significance, that's all my point. They are arbitrary but not imaginary: they are a convention. A convention that is useful and necessary, if we want to communicate.