Previously @argv_minus_one
Comparing desktop and phone market share is iffy because a lot of people have both and I don’t believe there are any reliable statistics on the subject to use in our debate.
As for foldables, was it not your argument that you’d rather use one in place of a laptop? If it’s meant to be just a phone with a bigger screen, I guess that’s cool, but I’d still want to have a computer with a real keyboard and operating system available to me.
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No, my desire for autonomy is showing. My Linux PC is my computer and it responds to my decree, as a certain hammy Skyrim character would put it. Android and iOS have the audacity to tell me what I’m allowed to do with my own device, which as far as I’m concerned makes them unserious.
You are of course welcome to disagree with my opinion.
My argument for convertible laptops is that, if you want a tablet for whatever reason, you can have your tablet without the downsides.
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Not even the same ballpark. Typing accuracy with the Droid 3 keyboard is comparable to desktop. Speed is less with only two fingers instead of ten, but its speed × accuracy is still vastly superior to that of a touchscreen keyboard.
Touchscreens have zero tactile feedback. It’s a completely flat panel. Touch typing is impossible. Gesture typing is abysmally inaccurate. Hunt-and-peck is abysmally slow.
Yes, I would probably have liked your old Samsung. Looks pretty similar to my Droid 3.
Google Analytics reports how many people are using desktop, phone, or tablet on my site.
A Google search for “tablet vs phone vs desktop market share” yields similar results: tablet market share is very low (though not basically zero like on my site).
I could charitably call tablets a niche device, but seeing as convertible laptops do everything tablets do, have keyboards, and run serious non-toy operating systems, I don’t see any reason to be charitable.
The Droid 3 keyboard’s keys are larger than a touchscreen keyboard’s. You push them with your thumbs. If you can handle a Game Boy/DS/Switch, you can handle that keyboard.
Never used a BlackBerry. Their keyboards seem smaller (i.e. harder to use) than the Droid’s.
Does nobody like keyboards on phones? I don’t remember anybody surveying me.
Pretty ironic that you think I shouldn’t knock foldable phones before I try them, but you’re knocking physical keyboards without trying them.
On the contrary, my disdain for touchscreens is a result of spending far too *much* time with them. A larger, foldable screen isn’t going to solve that problem.
A phone with a real keyboard would solve that problem—I loved my Droid 3 and miss it terribly—but for reasons I absolutely cannot fathom, no phone manufacturer wants to make a truly good phone any more.
I don’t know what estimates you speak of, but I manage a website, and the monthly tablet users on it is basically zero.
> I can comfortably manage emails, shopping, web browsing, lemmy, social media
Without a real keyboard? How? I find the experience of doing such things on a touchscreen infuriatingly slow and error-prone. That’s why I’m using a desktop to write this post.
> Arguing against folding phones is almost the same as arguing against tablets.
That’s not saying much. Tablets have been a flop.
I remember there being an uproar about folding screens developing visible seams after a while. I would consider that a failure.
Unless your folding phone also has a physical keyboard and a serious non-toy operating system, I fail to see how it can practically replace a laptop or desktop.
If I want a bigger screen, I’m reaching for a laptop or desktop, not a phone with a self-destructing screen. I expect my gear to last at least 5 years, preferably 10.
There are (non-AI) algorithms for that. Git uses one to detect renames. No need to melt the ice caps just for that.
@Mr_Dr_Oink
I did say touch typing on a thumb keyboard is slower. I also said it’s far faster than what I can do on a (normal non-folding no-physical-keyboard) phone.
If you can touch type on your foldable phone’s touchscreen keyboard, where you can’t feel the boundaries between the keys, then I’m impressed. I didn’t think that was possible.