Timeline for Are iPhone, iPod and iPod Touch questions computer related (Super User)?
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| Jul 22, 2010 at 17:59 | history | migrated | from meta.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Sep 5, 2009 at 16:05 | comment | added | Omnifarious | I would call them nanocomputers because desktop computers and laptops are microcomputers. But I think that the application of SI prefixes to computer hardware market classifications is probably the wrong approach. It's gone mainframe->mini->micro, what's the next step? It needs to be short, sweet and catchy and should capture anything from about watch size to Palm Treo size. | |
| Aug 22, 2009 at 3:01 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | I agree with these distinctions. I agree that the iPhone is a gray area, so it really depends on the question. The more computer hardware or software related it can be, obviously, the better. | |
| Aug 21, 2009 at 15:46 | comment | added | Hilarious Comedy Pesto | @Michael: If there are already hundreds of posts on HowToGeek about it, then why don't we add "closed as belongs on HowToGeek" and call it a day? Isn't that the point of the League of Justice? | |
| Aug 21, 2009 at 15:44 | comment | added | TheTXI | I'm not trying to start a another war here, but WTF does the content on HowToGeek have to do with what is permissible on SuperUser? If there is a large enough community outcry about what I am suggesting, then perhaps Atwood could give the O-K to loosen the definition, but I'm just operating on what I know at this point. | |
| Aug 21, 2009 at 15:27 | comment | added | Michael Pryor | Obviously there's a justification, but what you said comes down to yes on iPhones, maybe on iPod Touch, no on other iPods. I can't imagine how a normal user on superuser could expect to understand that (without 5 paragraphs like you wrote). Consider also that there are hundreds of posts and issues on HowToGeek about iPods (including iPod shuffles). | |
| Aug 21, 2009 at 14:58 | history | answered | TheTXI | CC BY-SA 2.5 |