Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?
by marcosdumay on Friday March 29, 2019 @01:28PM
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They are becoming phones.
A communication-only device that can take photos and browse the web is very useful, but I think it will lose market to a proper computer every time.
Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?
by TeMPOraL on Friday March 29, 2019 @08:28PM
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> A communication-only device that can take photos and browse the web is very useful, but I think it will lose market to a proper computer every time.
It might not. Every phone company has strong incentives to optimize their offering to the lowest common denominator. Majority of people are not tech-savvy, and they have no context for what computers are capable of and how those capabilities could be applied to their lives, so they simply choose from what's being offered by hardware and software companies. People who care about this stuff are a minority, and there's not much money in catering to them.
If computers could be bicycles for the mind, the modern trend is making people sit on their ass instead, and consume what's delivered to them.
That's becoming the answer with everything on Android, for anything useful you want to do, you need to root the phone. The stock phone is becoming just good for running Facebook and Candy-crush.