Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: What can't you do on Android WITHOUT a Google Account set up in the OS? Date: 3 Jan 2025 18:36:17 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <34s*bEu3z@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> <1q3eki2i60kco$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> X-Trace: individual.net 2fnf6evAkwn/fP4DGLf8zgFeLCdRoX59r9KMCbo84Kqm8Wug+q X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:STm+Ce42CzlmIb1q35WXBgAOX68= sha256:KwN73ZOQm/O74r6Hg8ldALHqr6EkPCvuINeqrJqZiFA= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:146113 VanguardLH wrote: > Jeff Layman wrote: > > > Most of the general public use a cellphone as their only "computer". > > Even if they once owned a desktop or laptop, changes to the telephone > > system mean that they no longer bother with a router and broadband > > connection. > > Yep, us desktop PC users are feeling like an endangered species: 40% > global web traffic compared to 58% for mobile devices (78% of which is > by Android users). Considering the toy computer it is, small display, > and lack of good input devices (unless you Bluetooth a keyboard and > mouse), I dislike web surfing on a phone. Still, it beats lugging a > laptop or notebook on a vacation. A big smartphone in a belt holster > beats toting around a bag with a laptop. The "mobile devices" category probably includes tablets. IME, most households which have mobile phones, also have tablets or/and laptops. > There must be some age break for those that do and don't suffer > nomophobia. Some folks have withdrawl symptoms if they don't have their > phone on them all the time. "Some"!? :-)