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Do you work in tech by chance? I work in an entirely non-technical field (to the point we barely use email), and I have several coworkers whose only “computer” is their phone or a tablet.

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I guess the answer is Yes now but I used to work as a philosopher at university until recently. I literally never met a person, both inside and outside of professional settings, who owns a smart phone but doesn't own a computer. (There were, of course, plenty of people in the 1990s who owned neither a mobile phone nor a computer.) Most of the people I know use laptops, though, it has definitely shifted from PCs to laptops.

I guess it's because I used to work in a writing-based profession and mostly know academics.

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