Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline

Re:Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline by dredmorbius on Saturday December 08, 2018 @08:52PM (#18638750)

There's nothing but app ecosystem standing between Tablet aand useful flyweight mobile computer.

Getting Termux on Android was a complete game-changer, and took the device from hated useless toy to ... well, still-hated, but occasionally useful toy. But clearly the limitation is in apps and OS, not form-factor.

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Re:Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline by api on Saturday December 08, 2018 @10:18PM (#18639042)

That's what I said -- "dripped by design" OS. That being said I don't see it as something that's going to change. The duopoly behind phones and tablets wants these devices locked down. In Apple's case it's so they can take 30% of every transaction. In Google's case it's so the device can double as a surveillance platform.

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Re:Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline by dredmorbius on Sunday December 09, 2018 @02:06AM (#18639775)

I'm watching Purism and Ubuntu with interest.

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