What are you talking about? Are you going to buy a chair and sit close to the monitor?
People have TVs in their living rooms and like to seat on their couches which are a few meters away from the TV, that's why you need to buy a larger screen.
I don't think I've ever read a comment as dumb as yours.
This may shock you, but living rooms with TVs existed before people had enormous TVs. My understanding is when guests came to visit your home, the polite thing to do would be to hand out one of those old-timey monocles so people could watch the TV. I believe those old-timey monocles only went out of fashion around 2012 and later when TV sizes approached modern standards.
Everything happens on my terms. The phone never tries to grab my attention unless I explicitly make it so. All the things I use are FLOSS. I can patch anything I want down to the kernel and bootloader, often on the phone itself (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191008). The OS is managed the exact same way the OS on my PC is and all my skills and knowledge directly transfer over, so I can script it or write applications the exact same way I did on PCs for decades. No "side-loading" shenanigans whatsoever. I can use any browser I want with any extensions I want. I've even used it at a game jam once - plugged a screen, keyboard and mouse in and made a game with the same tools I would have used on a PC (QtCreator, Allegro, GIMP, Inkscape, Audacity, LMMS) and cross-compiled it to Windows and macOS right from the phone using the exact same tools and workflow as usual.
I could probably go on and on. It feels like my little personal pocket computer rather than an appliance that someone lets me play with on their terms.
BTW. Funny how it can go from "it can't possibly replace Android/iOS" to "how is that different from Android/iOS?" :)
People have TVs in their living rooms and like to seat on their couches which are a few meters away from the TV, that's why you need to buy a larger screen.
I don't think I've ever read a comment as dumb as yours.
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