View Single Post
Old 05-12-2015, 08:53 AM   #516
Glorfindel
Force-Aware Elf
Glorfindel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Glorfindel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Glorfindel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Glorfindel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Glorfindel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Glorfindel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Glorfindel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Glorfindel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Glorfindel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Glorfindel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Glorfindel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Glorfindel's Avatar
 
Posts: 4,762
Karma: 11557898
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Valinor
Device: Kindle 4 w/SO
Quote:
Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
I would argue that a smartphone or tablet has far more similarity to a PC than to an embedded microcontroller ( where did you pull that ridiculous comparison from, if you want to talk about "disingenuous")... or even a single-use embedded system.
Don't you own a Surface tablet? Is that an embedded device, just because it uses a mobile form factor?
What, precisely, is your inscrutable determining factor between "general-purpose OS" and "dedicated, invisible-to-the-user"?
Because it sounds like your definition of "embedded device" refers more to user knowledge than device design; I could easily make the case that a Windows 8 desktop rig is an embedded device according to what you just said. G-d knows, a lot of people wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Define 'Windows 8 desktop rig'. While most users may not be able to tell you what version of 7 they have, I have yet to meet someone who didn't know Windows 8 when they saw it.
Also, 'a smartphone or tablet' is far too broad a term to be using here; no one would argue that a Nexus running Ubuntu Touch was running linux. Nor would anyone claim that a Lumia with Windows Phone 8 was a linux device.
Glorfindel is offline   Reply With Quote