I'm dreaming of a pocket Macintosh

Re:I'm dreaming of a pocket Macintosh by voltagex_ on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @09:38PM (#7980997)

I am very afraid of the day where I can't get a general-purpose computer anymore.

The best pocket machine I've ever had was a Nokia N900. I strongly believe in "if you don't have root, you don't own it".

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Re:I'm dreaming of a pocket Macintosh by Tloewald on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @10:25PM (#7981140)

I'm sure there are people who thought the same of microcode, bootstrap code, or whatever. We all operate at some level of abstraction.

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Re:I'm dreaming of a pocket Macintosh by prutschman on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @10:39PM (#7981176)

It's an important distinction whether the abstraction is designed to facilitate the user's operation of the hardware or interfere with it.

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Re:I'm dreaming of a pocket Macintosh by Tloewald on Friday July 04, 2014 @01:26PM (#7989574)

Define "facilitate" to everyone's satisfaction. By my definition, Apple has done more to facilitate people's use of computer hardware than any other single company.

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