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They have been since the beginning.
That's literally why I got an OG Motorola Droid. I said to myself "I can have a full computer in my pocket!"
The whole point of the article is that the new MacBooks are running on iPhone hardware. And that therefore there's no reason for you not being able to install MacOS on your iPhone. Even your old droid was locked down and you were not able to install a real OS which would have given you the freedom to run what you want without restrictions
The only difference is UI. I operate my phone in my hand with my thumb, not on my lap or on a desk from a keyboard.
It wasn't locked down. I rooted it, installed a few OS's, it even ran Linux.
I understand the point of the article. I'm saying since the very beginning, the only limits on what smartphones can do, have been what software 'they' want you to run.
A CPU is a CPU. Some are faster or slower, but they can all do anything.
This. But Marketing has been very good at saying "this: phone, that: computer. not same thing". So many times I heard "Oh but how do you want to do that on a phone?". It's not a phone. It has never been a phone.
I went to the Verizon store to buy an iPhone when the droid first launched, the rep said "you don't want that phone, check this one out" and showed me the droid. So glad I didn't get roped into that ecosystem.
I still miss CyanogenMod dearly...
Yah. It had customizations nobody has anymore.
I am actually very, very, very seriously looking at post-market OS since it is mainline Linux on a phone.
I had an Atrix 4G back in the day.
For me, it was around 2013 an iPad nano, thinking how awesome having an iPhone with unlimited internet would be, because I could listen anything on demand on the go Then I got my 4s as first self bought iPhone.
I realised, how macOS like it is, as I had jailbroken it.