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I too use my tablet and phone these days for things I used to do on a pc. The natural question to ask, then, is what's the difference? What differentiates pc fr
by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I too use my tablet and phone these days for things I used to do on a pc. The natural question to ask, then, is what's the difference? What differentiates pc from mobile? I guess it's the OS, mostly. Android uand iOS are distinctly different from windows/OSX now, mostly because they're stripped down. But if they take on the same tasks as pc OSes, they'll have to get bigger, and then will the difference still matter?
- Roboprog 13y agoYou can use the apps on mobile devices w/out the keyboard in a pinch, of course. The way the apps are partitioned so they can't crap all over each others' DLLs and registry entries helps some as well. The single-source app store may or may not be a win for everyone, but making apps keep to themselves helps avoid fouling the whole OS install.
- mtdewcmu 13y agoI'm proposing that the more iOS/Android devices grow to intrude on the PC's domain, the more they will become just like PCs.