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A smartphone is a computer.
I'm increasingly only using my phone for everything, with a Bluetooth mechanical keyboard for coding or typing. My PC is quickly becoming just a gaming console and will probably soon be put into a car sim style setup then my phone will be my only computer for everything else. Nothing fancy phone wise, S7 Edge. It can take USB sticks, wireless keyboard and mouse, and almost everything I do is just in Firefox or Dropbo…
It had/has everything a travelling hacker needed/needs.
That said, my MBA is lighter, faster, has longer battery life, and is a lot easier to work with in general. It just can't take a SIM, which my version of Galaxy Tab could.
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What form of comms is better on a computer than it is on a smartphone? I can't think of anything.
For me (and many others) anything that involves writing more than a few words of text. YMMV.
Steven Jobs ran a multibillion-dollar company wearing only black turtlenecks.
People have run companies without computers for centuries !
People have run billion dollar tech startups without computers for centuries? Tell me more, please.
Standard Oil hit a market cap of over $1 trillion without computers. Maybe it was a coal-industry-disruptor start-up...?
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That's pretty much the same nowadays, you look & reply to emails, you browse the web, you open company documents, you have the same company chat as on a pc... From a company point of view it's essentially the same thing, that's why you have company phones.
That 30-page company document you opened on your phone, was it written on a phone? "Producing" is a lot more than writing 15 line emails.
A smartphone is a computer.
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I'm increasingly only using my phone for everything, with a Bluetooth mechanical keyboard for coding or typing. My PC is quickly becoming just a gaming console and will probably soon be put into a car sim style setup then my phone will be my only computer for everything else. Nothing fancy phone wise, S7 Edge. It can take USB sticks, wireless keyboard and mouse, and almost everything I do is just in Firefox or Dropbo…
Surely you can't be reading all that code on such a small screen? I assume you must be hooking it up to an HDMI monitor as well? (But if so, I'm with you. I was using a Samsung DeX with my S8 recently while my laptop was broken, and it's incredible how much it can do. I had my Focusrite 2i2 USB audio connecting my S8 to my studio monitors, and even that worked.)
My eyes thankfully haven't degraded as fast as my hearing so far.
Being a wireless 60% keyboard it's quite small, so I can use this setup anywhere I want just on my lap. It's very convenient.