>the word smartphone is ironic because unlike the production-centered Blackberries or Palm Pilots of yore, iDevices are tailored to social media consumption and distraction
>everybody is absolutely obsessed with these devices to the detriment of meaningful in-person social interaction, as parents especially can attest
>skill-based handheld games with tactile controls have been replaced with microtransaction-based mobile games with simplified controls and dumbed down gameplay/graphics
>iOS is a walled garden where Apple exercises dictatorial control over what goes and and off their closed platform
>Android is a bastardization of Linux, a fragmented garbage dump of carrier bloatware, locked bootloaders, OEM fiefdoms and unpatched vulnerabilities
>the whole platform is big brother NSA's wet dream of metadata collection and tracking
When will the mobile meme die Sup Forums? The best gaming and computing experience is of course on desktop PC, ideally running Linux. I want off this botnet Sup Forums, could VR be the hero we deserve? What's the next big computing platform?