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Imagine if someone came if with a generic idea for a computer program and they described it as 'Windows Blah Blah'. Many would see this as reflecting poorly on
by dejb 17y ago
Imagine if someone came if with a generic idea for a computer program and they described it as 'Windows Blah Blah'. Many would see this as reflecting poorly on the author's knowledge of computing. What about Linux or OSX? Why are you so close minded as to only think about Windows? they might say. In the same way I think that the use of the word 'iPhone' for generic smartphone concepts should be deprecated in favor of more generic terms.
- louismg 17y agoIn this case, I referenced the iPhone because of their recent introduction of voice memos. It seems like the tech is there, and they can marry it to the standard interface. I also understand Android has this available.
- bkudria 17y agoIt would be kinda pretty trivial to do this on any smartphone. Trust me,the iPhone could record before apple gave us Voice Memos.
- dejb 17y agoI'm guessing that you used it because many others before have also used it. The problem is it tends to propagate an untrue and unfortunate meme that the iPhone is the only mobile computing platform. Now that many are starting to doubt the 'perfect golden future' of the iPhone I think it is time to squash this meme. The other thing is that many phones have had the capability of doing much of this for years. I had a phone 5 years ago that could record phone calls. I think it was an Ericsson. The ironic thing is that there is a high likelihood Apple wouldn't allow you to implement these ideas where other platforms would.