Re:Open Source PC That Fits in Your Pocket
by rchaud on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @11:01AM
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> Smartphones have been "pocketable PCs" for more than a decade already, but are dumbed down because their inputs and outputs are limited.
Wrong. Smartphones are dumbed down because the manufacturers would greatly prefer that you not run any kind of software that they or their partners did not directly provide.
The iOS App Store would have been barer than a Soviet grocery store if iOS supported Flash.
The fact that a full computing device in your pocket cannot be used to build and deploy applications makes it not much more useful than a color PDA from 2005.
Wrong. Smartphones are dumbed down because the manufacturers would greatly prefer that you not run any kind of software that they or their partners did not directly provide.
The iOS App Store would have been barer than a Soviet grocery store if iOS supported Flash.
The fact that a full computing device in your pocket cannot be used to build and deploy applications makes it not much more useful than a color PDA from 2005.