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[jonas21]

Apple was a computer company and now their biggest business is selling mobile phones.

[pydry → jonas21]

Not was, is. They didnt undermine their first market in the slightest.

Kodak was a film company. They made the first digital camera. Theyre dead now.

[Tostino → jonas21]

Which are what if not computers?

[manwe150 → Tostino]

There must be some difference, as otherwise my washing machine would be a computer too since it has a screen, input, and an operating system; and conversely that the Windows phone wouldn’t have had such a brief existence.

[alanbernstein → manwe150]

Perhaps the difference between a phone and a washing machine is, uh, the plumbing?

[manwe150 → alanbernstein]

So you're saying having plumbing in the computer makes it not a computer? What about water-cooled gaming and HPC systems: are they computers?

[ASalazarMX → manwe150]

Certain kind of plumbing, as in the kind that allows the computer to wash clothes.