• @JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgOP
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    179 hours ago

    The whole point of the article is that the new MacBooks are running on iPhone hardware. And that therefore there’s no reason for you not being able to install MacOS on your iPhone. Even your old droid was locked down and you were not able to install a real OS which would have given you the freedom to run what you want without restrictions

    • @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      54 hours ago

      The only difference is UI. I operate my phone in my hand with my thumb, not on my lap or on a desk from a keyboard.

    • @Steve@communick.news
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      8 hours ago

      It wasn’t locked down. I rooted it, installed a few OS’s, it even ran Linux.

      I understand the point of the article. I’m saying since the very beginning, the only limits on what smartphones can do, have been what software ‘they’ want you to run.

      A CPU is a CPU. Some are faster or slower, but they can all do anything.

      • @voidsignal@lemmy.world
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        78 hours ago

        This. But Marketing has been very good at saying “this: phone, that: computer. not same thing”. So many times I heard “Oh but how do you want to do that on a phone?”. It’s not a phone. It has never been a phone.