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Re:Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere by loco5niner on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @08:22PM (#9965528)
Editing pictures for facebook and creating comments in a forum are are not particularly "forms of creation". Photoshopping a magazine cover and building a website are.

As for photography, messaging, and gps. Well, of course. Those are a natural use for that form factor. I'm not going to take my laptop out to take a picture... (I'm kind of surprised you didn't mention that the phone is better for making phone calls too).

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Re:Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere by toborrobot on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @01:03AM (#9966311)
Nobody would take their laptop out to take a picture, but plenty of people use Skype on a laptop.

Maybe it's a quirk of history that modern phones are named after the telephone; most phone usage involves reading text, not speaking or listening.

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Re:Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere by loco5niner on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @12:35PM (#9969773)
And both of those uses are examples of consumption, not creation.
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