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Re:A Revolution in Your Pocket by fwip on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:30PM (#19976574)
Smartphone penetration in the US is over 75%. That's not just San Francisco tech bubbles, that's most of America.

Over half of China has a smartphone. Venezuela, the country where it's hard to buy bread, has 40% smartphone penetration.

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Re:A Revolution in Your Pocket by tomxor on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:33PM (#19976594)
I'm pretty sure those aren't the expensive 1k phones the author was highlighting.

Also the world is bigger than America + China.

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Re:A Revolution in Your Pocket by fwip on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @09:38PM (#19976966)
They're two separate sentences.

Many, maybe most people have smartphones.

The most expensive of those have these stats.

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Re:A Revolution in Your Pocket by tomxor on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @05:53AM (#19979505)
> They're two separate sentences.

Right next to each other, in the same paragraph... are you really arguing it is not implied that high specs are intended to be relevant to the authors argument? If so what is the purpose of this sentence?

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Re:A Revolution in Your Pocket by fwip on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @12:48PM (#19982997)
"many people have smartphones. They're so powerful, that some of them are equivalent to laptops from a few years ago."

I don't know how on Earth you can't parse this simple paragraph.

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