[rahkiin]

So a smartphone is not a computer anymore? The world we live in..

[ccozan]

I think is a matter of semantics, not of functionality. A smartphone is a computer per design, but no one is calling it like that.

[khedoros1]

My calculator's a computer, but I don't call it that. My game systems are all computers, but I don't call them that either (and never have, unless I was discussing semantics).

[digi_owl]

It may be, but it is not in hardware or software lated to the major "desktop" platforms. And they are by design far more locked down than your average laptop or desktop (just wish said locked state didn't leave the OEM so much in control).

[astrodust]

A smartphone is not a computer any more than your electric toothbrush, which happens to have a CPU and Bluetooth for whatever reason, is a computer.

In this context "computer" means "desktop computer" or "laptop computer".

[devopsproject]

its a colloquialism

computer = desktop\laptop