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Comment by mememememememo

9 hours ago

In such a future the iPhone and android ecosystem is dead? Because a single $1k phone is a hell of a computer. So if you can still buy a phone you can still get a computer. Local AI aside these are very capable.

You don’t really own an iPhone in terms of being a computer. It’s different for certain Android phones where you can install a custom OS. Those are also less powerful, however.

iOS is apparently going to have mandatory age gating, so likely that will come to Android as well.

  • I was trying to avoid the software side of this argument as it is a worm cannister. I was just musing from a hardware availability point of view.

    That said.... hopefully at least on Android side you can get a free (as in unchastified) OS to run on it.

    Until they come for the HW.

Maybe we’ll finally get some good tools to make real productive work possible on phones.