Nothing on mobile is okay. I know everyone loves their smart phones but they really are terrible computers in every way except for portability. Use a computer when you actually want to do things. Smartphones are just for when you're literally unable to use a real computer.
Smartphones are awesome. You can use them to play chess, read books on the go, pay your bills while taking a dump and send your mom pictures of your baby.
I just grabbed a Starbucks that I ordered on the way so there was no wait, exchanged some texts with friends who live 8000 miles away, and responded to an urgent work email that 30 years ago would have been a “drop everything and drive into the office” phone call.
I mean there are downsides, like anything, but it’s hard for me to see smartphones as anything but a net godsend. Do people really think they’re in the same category of bad as Google Glasses?
Not for me. I don't even own a smartphone, just a good old small mobile phone whose battery charge virtually lasts forever. I can't do anything useful with a computer that doesn't have a proper keyboard and screen.
"Smartphones are just for when you're literally unable to use a real computer."
When I am lying on a couch or in bed, I could use a laptop or tablet, but for just surfing a bit, a mobile phone is just more handy. But sure, smartphones or tablets are not really useful for anything productive.
I've made my peace, somewhat, with my phone activity being tracked and everything. But this point about smartphones trying to mimic PCs is where I draw the line. I don't like the push for everything mobile to replace everything desktop/PC because I frankly don't trust smartphones to be powerful enough and secure enough to handle much more than to-do lists, social media or the occasional bank transfer (never done on a public wi-fi network of course). Of course I'm stubborn in preferring a full-sized keyboard, mouse and I dunno...computer for tasks like programming, photo editing (no, putting filters on photos is not what I consider photo editing) and gaming but that's how I think smartphones should be used vs. full-fledged computers.
That's a pretty obscure reason to say that smartphones suck though. If you need more computing power, buy a tablet or a big battery pack, or use a laptop. Hell, log into a remote server and run your apps there.
95% of people who use phones don't need that much power and given how many people own phones they clearly find them extremely useful.
As a consumer, I'm not very impressed with smartphones. It's mostly just entertainment. There's very little utility other than looking stuff up on the internet. It's basically just a far less UI capable but more portable computer. if you doubt this to any degree, just try getting any work done: anything. spreadsheets? programming? writing a length email? debugging? smartphones are mainly just entertainment devices.
The point is that folks expect to use their smartphones for a vast array of tasks, and they are _expected_ to use their smartphones for these tasks (by family, employers, friends, merchants, etc.) This is a social problem much more than a technical one, as I see it.
Still need to be in WiFi range for that… 90% of smartphone things are better on a computer, only convenience makes ppl use the smartphone, but a big part of that convenience is mobile service and GPS. Take that out and you may as well get a dumb phone and use your laptop for everything else.
Every time I use a smartphone I almost throw it out the window. The UI absolutely sucks. Then there are things like samsung edge or whatever, so when you even touch the phone it starts changing pages and clicking.
Smartphones are already more powerful than the desktop computers of, say, a few years ago and are already capable of comfortably running a browser and an office suite without any performance problems.
So it isn't a question of computing power, it's a question of utility: who actually needs this? What benefit does it provide over and above just having a cheap PC to do PC things and a smartphone to do smartphone things and syncing documents between the two? It's not cheaper, it's not more convenient, it's not more productive, it's not more powerful, so what's the point?
I don't understand this post. Smartphones give you access to the Internet at all times. They are not very well-suited to creation, but are fairly well-suited for communication and consumption. Either that's what you're looking for in a device, or it's not. It's quite clear that consumers want these devices, so what's the problem?
I would never replace my computer with a smartphone, but that hardly seems to be a valid argument for why one shouldn't "like them".
I don't get why this has so many points right now.
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