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by Retric 3205 days ago
10's of Gigaflops is now cheap and in your pocket. But, unlocking your phone is not a use case that's just a hoop you jump through before making a phone call etc.

The phone might happen to have an on board address book and calendar, but this was not a statement about access to computation. It's a statement about cost/benefit and use cases.