> NexOS includes Linux as an app, so you can open a full Debian environment whenever you need it—even while you’re out and about. The goal is simple: Linux should feel like a real desktop-class toolset on a mobile device, not a toy.

So a toy, but it shouldn't _feel_ like a toy. So Google (Android 16) controls your toy, but you can "run" an "OS" in it.

> This kind of behavior is much more common in 3rd world countries.

... where Microsoft and Google have their headquarters. /s

Plenty of food, no natural predators, what can go wrong ? /s

Real journalism at Bloomberg. Wait till they find that Meta can see all Chats.

> Windows Me (released in 2000) was the first in that specific family to ship with the fix included,

With all this, Windows Me was the most unstable, crashing several times per day, although there were, on HN, reports that in some configurations was stable.

One should read, carefully, the Apple EULA and TOS.

Is it worse than Google?

> Almost all of the prosumer apps on iOS offer a consistently better experience

So for people who don't want to use computers. I cannot work with a tablet or phone. I need a computer.

I mean, as someone who is mainly a programmer, same. But high-end cameras, big touchscreens, and an excellent pencil input is sort of the optimal device for a whole bunch of creative tasks

Are the cameras "high-end"? Good for a phone, certainly. But compared to a real camera with a much bigger lens and sensor?

I make the superior picture with my camera but then it sits there on an SD card in the camera. I have to boot a desktop, hope the USB connection works today, find a folder, create and name a folder in the folder, copy the pictures there, find and open something to view and edit the images with, find and open something to upload the images. OR open the camera, take out th SD card, boot up a computer, plug the card into a reader or a laptop and do the same ritual.

People pretend this is a perfectly acceptable workfow. It is not.

The pictures would have to be dramatically better than those made by phones. They are not.

I shoot, review on the much larger phone screen, click share and chose from countless options to publish immediately. OR edit it a bit and enjoy the same.

I also never consciously bring the phone, it's just there in my pocket. Interesting things happen, you unholster it and start shooting. The real camera is more like guard duty. You sit there waiting for the interesting shot. Sometimes that works out and some of those times the extra quality is actually visible and some of that time it is totally worth it. The rest of the time I wonder what it is I think I'm doing.

> but then it sits there on an SD card in the camera. I have to boot a desktop, hope the USB connection works today [...] OR open the camera, take out th SD card [...]

Or open the app on your smartphone (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.canon.ic...), connect to the camera through WiFi, and copy the photos directly.

We are apparently very spoiled with how smooth some things work on smart phones.

I want dedicated cameras to offer a superior experience. In stead it is quite bad.

In order to publish one should first disconnect the internet?

I have to put down the camera and pick up the competing device?

My absolute favorite annoyance with my cameras is the lack of charging over USB. After taking a good amount of pictures I have to guess if there is enough battery left to transfer the images to the computer.

Not that PCs or laptops offer very good charging power. This because there is little demand.

It seems in order to make the superior experience the camera maker should also make phones and/or laptops? I have no idea really.

All I know is that my phone has 100W charging. I can almost immediately return to the front. The camera does have swappable batteries going for it but that I have to remove it from the tripod to reload it won't win the war.

I don't know about Canon's offering... but Sony's is lackluster to say the least. On my A6000 (and possibly other older models), you can't import RAWs, only JPEGs. Not to add that manual connection to the camera's wifi is a rather "annoying" process, having to go into the camera settings, manually turning on wifi, going into the phone's settings/quick menu to connect to said hotspot, then open the app, etc...

It's just a plain worse experience to just some extremely good phones like the iPhones with pro camera apps

I just plug the sd card reader into my phone.

They're good enough to have displaced the vast majority of camera purchases, and be used by professionals (e.g. influencers, photojournalists, pro photographers).

There are benefits to larger sensors, but the best camera is the one you have in-hand.

> Good for a phone, certainly.

The multiple lenses and the processing power make smartphones wildly better than almost any consumer camera, particularly for someone without professional photography skills. A professional camera in the hands of a professional photographer can do better, but that means the market has changed from "consumers buy consumer cameras, professionals buy professional cameras" to "consumers use the camera that's always in their pocket and get surprisingly good results, professionals buy professional cameras".

I own a galaxy tab s7 fe and I'm quite happy with it to be honest.

Not sure what I'd want more from an iPad.

It is true that it has slightly more apps, but realistically all I need is there.

> but things on the iPhone really do “just work”.

For values of “just work” close to 0.

Make a picture, connect with a Windows PC, iOS needs a password, then the picture is not visible to the PC, disconnect, go with Apple photos to look at the picture, repeat connecting, with password, now it is visible.

Try to set up a hotspot, there is no button to turn the hotspot on/off.

So yes, it “just works"

You can find your hotspot button in the control center. Swipe down from the top right of the screen. It’s in the same section as airplane mode / WiFi / cellular data, and takes another tap to access.

You actually don't even need to set up hotspot more than once if the phone and the computer are both yours (and apple-brand). You can just connect to the iPhone with the Mac (if they're on the same iCloud account) and it works without entering a password.

> Try to set up a hotspot, there is no button to turn the hotspot on/off.

There is. You can even put it on the settings drawer. Look for "personal hotspot".

I don't have a mac anymore, but IIRC you could even turn it on from the paired mac. This definitely still works between iphones. When I take out my old iphone from the drawer to use as a GPS on my bike, with no sim card, it will connect to my regular iphone's hotspot automatically.

> Try to set up a hotspot, there is no button to turn the hotspot on/off.

I’m confused, which button? Do Android phones come with a physical button to enable hotspot?

Just a quick shortcut