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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
Here's the thing: the most readily available personal computing device ever is the cell phone:
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serves well the purpose of:
voice
Sure, one would hope, but some phone makers give this a back seat.
or text communication,
Meh. Serves it about as well as a pager. Some people are OK with limiting their text communication to abbreviations and sore thumbs. Others need to actually write.
reading,
Awful.
watching
Awfuller.
[B] and listening to digital content. [B]
Sure, if you're willing to compromise.
Smart phones do a lot of things and do almost none of them really well, and many people are OK with mediocrity most of the time.
But often, many people -- even the boarder audience of people -- will continue to want devices that do something really well.
ApK