&gt; So is a photoalbum, so is a book, so is a TV, so is a music player<p>Comparing a powerful, expensive, fully programmable computer provided with cameras, GPS, radios with a photoalbum&#x2F;book&#x2F;TV is silly.<p>&gt; They&#x27;re becoming bigger, more powerful, and some can now be plugged in to monitors<p>You could plug a Commodore 64 to a television and write software on it, even if its CPU was probably less powerful than the battery controller of my smartphone.<p>It&#x27;s obvious that smartphone OSes are designed to turn the device into an addictive toy. Your examples of not owning software and centralization goes on the same line.