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		bee_rider on July 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android ... For a person who isn’t technical (able to compile programs), an iPhone has a superset of a laptop’s functionality. Except, much more user-friendly, because all your programs come from the App Store. A $600 laptop is not a prestige device.

jjav on July 29, 2023 [–]

> For a person who isn’t technical (able to compile programs), an iPhone has a superset of a laptop’s functionality.

That doesn't even begin to make any sense. Can you run CAD software or serious photo processing on a phone (like DxO)? Nothing I run on a mac can run on a phone.

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