You keep calling android/ios a toy operating system. Your bias is showing.
Its not charitable to call tablets niche. It’s accurate. The same goes for 2-in-1 “convertable” laptops.
Fact is, if you are arguing that a laptop that doubkes as a tablet is a good device then you are arguing that the need/want and use case for tablets is great enough that they are augmenting laptops into tablets to satisfy that need for consumers.
Going back to the original point. Foldables are good devices that cover a range of needs that are not met by regular phones. You dont need a laptop to do these things, and i can’t put a laptop in my pocket and use it absolutely anywhere by just taking it out of my pocket and pressing the power button.
Your insistance on arguing that desktops and laptops are the only way to do anything is just wrong. That is proven by the market share. Desktops have about 35% and phones have about 60%
No, my desire for autonomy is showing. My Linux PC is my computer and it responds to my decree, as a certain hammy Skyrim character would put it. Android and iOS have the audacity to tell me what I’m allowed to do with my own device, which as far as I’m concerned makes them unserious toys.
You are of course welcome to disagree with my opinion.
My argument for convertible laptops is that, if you really want a tablet for whatever reason, you can have your tablet without the downsides.
Comparing desktop and phone market share is iffy because a lot of people have both and I don’t believe there are any reliable statistics on the subject to use in our debate.
As for foldables, was it not your argument that you’d rather use one in place of a laptop? If it’s meant to be just a phone with a bigger screen, I guess that’s cool, but I’d still want to have a computer with a real keyboard and operating system available to me.
You keep calling android/ios a toy operating system. Your bias is showing.
Its not charitable to call tablets niche. It’s accurate. The same goes for 2-in-1 “convertable” laptops.
Fact is, if you are arguing that a laptop that doubkes as a tablet is a good device then you are arguing that the need/want and use case for tablets is great enough that they are augmenting laptops into tablets to satisfy that need for consumers.
Going back to the original point. Foldables are good devices that cover a range of needs that are not met by regular phones. You dont need a laptop to do these things, and i can’t put a laptop in my pocket and use it absolutely anywhere by just taking it out of my pocket and pressing the power button.
Your insistance on arguing that desktops and laptops are the only way to do anything is just wrong. That is proven by the market share. Desktops have about 35% and phones have about 60%
Its not even close.
No, my desire for autonomy is showing. My Linux PC is my computer and it responds to my decree, as a certain hammy Skyrim character would put it. Android and iOS have the audacity to tell me what I’m allowed to do with my own device, which as far as I’m concerned makes them unserious toys.
You are of course welcome to disagree with my opinion.
My argument for convertible laptops is that, if you really want a tablet for whatever reason, you can have your tablet without the downsides.
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Comparing desktop and phone market share is iffy because a lot of people have both and I don’t believe there are any reliable statistics on the subject to use in our debate.
As for foldables, was it not your argument that you’d rather use one in place of a laptop? If it’s meant to be just a phone with a bigger screen, I guess that’s cool, but I’d still want to have a computer with a real keyboard and operating system available to me.
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