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Your Phone is an Entire Computer (medhir.com)
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[–] 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

It wasn't locked down. I rooted it, installed a few OS's, it even ran Linux.

I understand the point of the article. I'm saying since the very beginning, the only limits on what smartphones can do, have been what software 'they' want you to run.

A CPU is a CPU. Some are faster or slower, but they can all do anything.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    This. But Marketing has been very good at saying "this: phone, that: computer. not same thing". So many times I heard "Oh but how do you want to do that on a phone?". It's not a phone. It has never been a phone.

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