It's what the microwave did for people who don't want to cook. Do the microwave people argue with commercial quality oven/stove/grill manufacturers about which is better? No, it's a silly argument. Same with a smartphone. It's not a computer, it's nothing like it in the true sense.
-superboyac
Fun comparison. I am of the set of folks who desperately hate to cook and that's on good days!
So I microwave absolutely everything (that is sensible, cold sandwiches are good too.)
On the comp side, I'm absolutely a software guy. I'd rate myself easily an intermediate Windows user. Not a newbie, not an expert, but I can do my share of things. I had a guy build my current comp for me, and as far as I am concerned it's a Black Box. (And it is Black! And Boxy!)
But philosophically as a desktop comp, with a little care on virus prevention, I can download anything I want and run it and save out my output files in any of 7 formats. What I really hate is the merge of the smartphone and tablet form factors with an OS that purposely hides the data within the apps themselves.
I'll sidestep the phone side for now, and talk about more of the tablet side. To me they're just overgrown mini-laptops, and there's no reason with SSD/other storage a laptop couldn't look like that. Apple WAS brilliant, and their business position proves it. However, somewhere moving from "Revenge of the Nerds" to "Oh look I can use a tablet to go onto Facebook", Apple found ways to make for subtle advantages of their own. It's the Lockdown Wars 2.0 .
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