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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Ok this needs harsh pushback, because phones are affordable, computers are not. There needs to be a massive project dealing with making phones platform agnostic.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 14 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Have you shopped for those items recently? You have 200 buck computers and 2000 buck phones.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

My current phone, a Pixel 7a, cost me around 350€ (let's say it's roughly the same in $). There is definitely cheaper options. And most of these options will give you a decent phone.

A $200 computer will bring you to basic office stuff and playing facebook games.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 hours ago

Yep but also 200 buck phones.