While the devil is certainly in the details, I think an android device would be more akin to a specific docker container running some sort of app.

A limited functionality device that services a specific purpose, if we were to take it to the world of the web, would be a webservice.

If you were having a problem with one of your puppet&co managed web servers on some cloud host, would you: a. perform root cause analysis. b. redeploy the entire machine because fuck it, you have your recipes or whatever and spinning up a new instance is a super cheap operation.

That's what I read into when I think about the grandparent.