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LeanderK · 2021-10-01 09:16:34

yeah, also thought of this. An iPhone is essentially a small network of interconnected processors communicating with each other!

rbanffy | karma 158565 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2010-04-01 23:09:47+00:00

> In the case of the iPhone there's one of the largest mobile operating systems on there.

Still, it's a lot simpler than a desktop computer - fewer parts, no moving ones... Splines' idea makes a lot of sense.

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Eddy_Viscosity2 | karma 3515 | avg karma 2.7 · | 2022-03-04 07:21:14

What's like an iphone?

jwblackwell | karma 892 | avg karma 4.0 · | 2019-03-31 20:52:29

The iPhone is really a platform

Consultant32452 | karma 6031 | avg karma 1.44 · | 2020-12-03 21:57:59

It's called an iPhone.

fader | karma 472 | avg karma 3.55 · | 2024-05-11 21:57:29

Yeah, I realized after I posted that I wasn't clear that I was referring to computer hardware. The iPhone dwarfs everything else that they sell.

ekianjo | karma 34827 | avg karma 2.44 · | 2020-01-13 12:01:45+00:00

Ever heard of iPhoneS?

kayman | karma 463 | avg karma 2.25 · | 2012-02-08 03:01:25

the iphone has solved this problem already with their tightly integrated hardware/software ecosystem

scarface74 | karma 25313 | avg karma 1.25 · | 2019-07-30 19:08:11+00:00

And iPhones have dedicated hardware for cellular, video decoding, decryption, a dedicated GPU, motion detection, face detection, etc....

beenBoutIT | karma 741 | avg karma 1.04 · | 2019-05-28 20:09:02

Exactly, the primary purpose of the iPhone is to send things to other people.

Retric | karma 55819 | avg karma 2.05 · | 2020-12-10 18:26:50+00:00

All iPhones are computers, not all computers are cellphones.

stereoradonc | karma 1897 | avg karma 4.15 · | 2022-05-10 18:31:19

An iPhone is an iPod with calling facility.

ShamelessC | karma 2803 | avg karma 1.26 · | 2020-08-04 02:14:40+00:00

iPhones

rimantas | karma 9152 | avg karma 2.5 · | 2016-08-02 17:45:50+00:00

iPhone has a computer in it, but it is not a general purpose computer. Why is this concept so hard to get? There are tons of things that have CPUs and billions of lines of code to run them, but they are not personal computers.

eru | karma 30335 | avg karma 1.29 · | 2010-04-08 20:37:48+00:00

iPhone have a lot of mind share, though.

nknight | karma 4320 | avg karma 3.62 · | 2012-05-22 01:51:27+00:00

It seems like they're using the iPhone for pretty much all intelligence, which makes sense. Custom embedded systems are non-trivial to design, manufacture, and bootstrap software for (I've been involved in some capacity with several). You'd save significant effort and trivially enable many more features by relying on something as powerful and mature as an iPhone.

bobthepanda | karma 14124 | avg karma 2.45 · | 2018-12-16 23:52:00

Miniaturization and flexibility come at a cost. Today's iPhone is more powerful than the computers used for the Apollo mission.

depr | karma 581 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2019-01-24 03:22:14

iPhones have better hardware/software integration, which is easy for Apple to do because they control everything. They get better performance out of their hardware because of this.

jcranberry | karma 910 | avg karma 1.73 · | 2019-07-31 13:08:06

Maybe not iPhones, but there's probably some of that with their computers.

rcMgD2BwE72F | karma 2634 | avg karma 2.0 · | 2018-01-05 10:33:36+00:00

Like the iPhone?