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We'd need a definition of a computer we can all agree upon.

Arguably, my iPhone 16 Pro Max is a computer. It has a desktop environment, file manager (and Android guys can no longer say "such as it is" since, I dunno, iOS 16? A few years back), office apps, etc. But run it to my TV over my Thunderbolt to HDMI cable, and you just get a vertical screen, it's just mirrored. Boo.

Now take my Galaxy S10 (5 years older!) and hook it up to the same cable, and you get a whole ass desktop experience on the TV, and the phone becomes a track pad. I shouldn't have to qualify my S10 as a computer to an Android community on what appears to be an Android instance on Lemmy. Seeing that, I only mentioned the iPhone as a setup. Yes I have one and yes it's my daily driver, and also yes it's a computer by my definition. But for the traditional definition, the S10 is more of a computer because it has a proper desktop.