(2020-09-11) Jones Why Is My Phone So Useless

Phil Jones asks Why Is My Phone So Useless? Why do I still not have the kinds of software I use every day on my computer on my (mobile) phone?

Why not the music toys I actually want to develop and play music with?

Instead my phone is basically just a client to Quora, TeleGram, GMail and TheGuardian. Sure, this has some value to me. But it's a huge wasted opportunity

So why don't I write the software I want?

1) The screen is still a bit small

2) Synchronization is (still) a bitch

3rd party tools on phone (eg. BTSync / SyncThing etc. not perfect ... mainly because Android is really hostile to different apps. sharing the same files.

3) Did I just mention sharing files between different apps is discouraged. This makes the kind of small tools approach I favour hard.