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I like the emergence of these cheap, fun, single function computing devices. Sure, it is useful to have a smartphone that does everything, but that doesn't help develop your internal map of reality in the same way as things like this do.

Ubuiquity can only be stretched so far in a single tool before the benefit you derive from adding yet another feature is outweighed by it becoming very slightly worse at everything else it does. Smartphones are great, but as a backup computing device, in much the same way keyring multitools are. And the best of them are still measurably worse than the best non-smartphones at actually being mobile phones.