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[devilshaircut]

I think he means that they are two fundamentally different devices. 1980s cell phones still do voice communication. A replicator, unlike a 3-D printer does not simply reproduce a shape. It also reproduces the constituent matter.

[noonespecial → devilshaircut]

My cell phone doesn't call starships in orbit via 'subspace' radio either. With the hairs and the splitting.