Are smartphones inconsistent with the Unix philosophy? A phone

smartphones are outright handy and they do still make calls and do it well calls take priority over anything else the phone does

Why would a hardware device need to be consistent with a software philosophy

PCs are capable of a lot of different things

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Here's a unix philosophy approved cell phone.

>>57647793
Smart phones are computers that can make phone calls

Besides, Unix philosophy applies to software anyway

It is a way to design software, so we can do more with the hardware.
People back then didn't have a mainframe to read files and a mainframe to write to files.
Stop acting like an idiot.

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>>57648293
>>57648233
Apple is the unix philosophy applied to companies

>>57648316
No wonder if fares so poorly in the world of grown-ups with real jobs.

>>57647793

Making calls is one of the least used functions on my smart phone.

It seems like an incredibly inefficient means of communication compared to shooting someone an instant message.

>>57647793
Smartphones are pocket computers. This is why iPhones don't technically classify as smartphones.

>>57648488
>implying
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3131906/apple-mac/ibm-says-macs-are-even-cheaper-to-run-than-it-thought.html

>>57647793
The one thing they do is to sell out their customers to advertisers, and they do that well.

I sometimes feel that way.

I want to get a dumbphone so I can use it as a 24/7 on phone and keep my smartphone as a pocket computer that I only connect to wifi from time to time.

I've been eyeing the nokia 216, but I wanted to ask you guys first.

>>57647793
the phone module in smartphones does whst you said, but smartphone is group of unix-friendly modules, with each one doing its job.

>computers are not unix because you can do too much things on them