Re:The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft
by allturtles on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @06:42PM
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> It’s the reason why the Internet took a long time to take off: using the Internet on a desktop computer sucks. When smartphones took off, so did the Internet.
Personally, I would say exactly the opposite, the only advantage a smartphone has over a desktop computer for Internet usage is portability, otherwise the experience is worse in every way.
This is not true, the Internet took off in the U.S. in the mid-90s: https://ourworldindata.org/internet
The driving force was the WWW, not smartphones.
Personally, I would say exactly the opposite, the only advantage a smartphone has over a desktop computer for Internet usage is portability, otherwise the experience is worse in every way.