You would if you were stuck on an Apple device as their e-mail app sucks and they are not open to allow you having an other option.

I've used mine for more though, AndrOpenOffice was the killer app for me, I can take my Android tablet around and make edits to me spreadsheets as needed.
I'm running an Amiga and C64 emulator on it too. And actually sync my environment for both from my laptop to my tablet (via owncloud) so I can take my historical computers with me.

Just a observation by me since switching phones.

My Iphone 5S has one cool feature. While a lot of other things sucked about it concerning linux. To unlock the phone. One just pulls out the sim card. No matter
who your service contract was with. I found out the later USA Iphones 5S came with
with this neat feature.

Mounting to grab my photos off of it. Pain in butt plugging it in and trying fuse, ifuse, libmobiledev, acrane commands in terminal. Making /media folders or /etc/fuse contents and editing them. No joy mounting and accessing IOS10 In my Ubuntu based, Debian based, Slackware based, linux installs on my assorted gear. After a few hours of self help which I usually try.

I ended up mailing my photos to gmail one by one, because a problem error comes up in IOS10 if you try to like, lets say, mail 5 or more photos at time. I then downloaded My Iphone 5S, IOS10, photos to my Samsung Galaxy 7 Edge from Gmail.

My Galaxy 7 Edge mounts in My Linux computers just fine and dandy using MTP instead of Mass Storage Device.
Which I kinda look at as change, for changes sake.
Android put my panties in wad over that removal of that feature and going with MTP.

My Blackberry 9530 would mount up just fine as a mass storage device in Linux.
I miss that easy peasy feature in today's world. Unlocking was a PITA though. But I figured it out.

But then. That just proves I have succumbed to

So right back to square one for me.

The claim was the switch to MTP allowed them to merge both storage locations internally. But either way you still have to plug in your usb cable. I setup a simple server that lets my pictures (and documents) sync over the network so I no longer have to plug in a cable, they just appear there for me automatically. The priv supports wireless charging as well so I never have to plug it in.
My kids have broken the usb ports on a couple past phones.

Using a computer to do your schoolwork was a new thing back in the 80's. Always impressed my teachers when I'd turn in a nicely printed assignment. I never had good eye-hand coordination so big writing assignments were always much harder for me than most as my hands could never keep up with my thoughts. I never had a typing class but after a while could type much faster than write.

I don't like modern word processors that spell check as you type though as it always distracts me from what I was writing. I prefer to get my thoughts down then clean it up after.

You missed the first half of the history of computing entirely. Computing history began in 1936:

"In 1936, Turing published his paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" (1936).[33] In this paper, Turing reformulated Kurt Gödel's 1931 results on the limits of proof and computation, replacing Gödel's universal arithmetic-based formal language with the formal and simple hypothetical devices that became known as Turing machines."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_T..._computability


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Steve Stites

I think computing started a little earlier than that, since this woman was the first computer programmer.

Here is a timeline of electrical computer development: http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/

Guiness says this was the first electronic computer: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...ital-computer/
Computers, though, date back thousands of years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_computer