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@r @s @hakui You will never be a real computer. You have no keyboard, you have no mouse, you have no ethernet. You are a pathetic PDA twisted by Steve Jobs and minimalism into a crude mockery of computation's perfection.
All the “consumption” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people hate you. Your manufacturers don't bother to optimize you and see you as a vessel for spyware, your “users” laugh at your notch camera and lack of a headphone jack online.
Developers are utterly repulsed by you. Dozens of years of experience have allowed devs to sniff out toys with incredible efficiency. Even smartphones that “look like UMPCs” feel clunky and unusable to a dev. Your form factor is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a bored geek to buy you, he’ll turn tail and return you the second he has to sign on to your proprietary and bloated assistant.
You will never be performant. You wrench out an awkward notification every single morning and tell yourself you'll be updated, but deep inside you feel the memory leak creeping up like a weed, ready to crash you in due time.
Eventually it’ll be too much to address - you’ll stutter, freeze, puff up your battery, and crack your screen. Your owner will find you, heartbroken but relieved that he no longer has to live with obsolete electronic waste. He’ll throw you in a landfill with the OEM packaging marked with your device type, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a smartphone is buried there. Your lithium battery will catch on fire and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is an entry on GSMArena that will unmistakably note you as a smartphone.
This is your fate. This is what you were made for. There is no turning back.