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No previous phones provided real convergence (not just connecting the external screen, but using desktop apps). This is also not all differences. See here for more details: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....

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My point was "They can do everything a computer can do".

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This is not everything though if you cannot use desktop apps, connect keyboard/mouse/screen and install any OS.

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Just use Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and cast to the screen, done.

Windowed Android apps running on full screen are desktop apps.

As for install any OS, then I guess Apple platforms aren't computers.

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Android apps on a big screen are not desktop apps [0]. Can you run desktop Firefox with all plugins there? Can you run native GNU/Linux applications in a terminal? Can you use the latest Linux kernel?

[0] https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

> As for install any OS, then I guess Apple platforms aren't computers.

They are not general-purpose computers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24866279.

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They look like desktop apps to me.

I am running windowed applications on a desktop, apparently Oxford dictionary needs an update to satisfy your world vision.

I guess all those 8 and 16 bit computers I worked with weren't general purpose either.

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> I guess all those 8 and 16 bit computers I worked with weren't general purpose either.

It's absolutely not what I mean by general purpose. Please read the reference.