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Comment by motoxpro | Hacker News Reader

Millions of people edit videos on tiktok and IG. It's the biggest video editing software in the world

I have a close friend, who's an Azure dev -- uses his MS laptop for work, his phone for everything else. And I do mean everything - taxes, trip planning, etc.

It's not just crazy kids who "know nothing but phones". Even engineers.

That said, phones operate too much like appliances. I will not give up my Mac.

It makes me very sad that this is true, simply due to the crippling limitations imposed by a cell phone and the implications of this trend gaining so much traction. I feel so claustrophobic and handicapped doing anything remotely complex on my iPhone. I would always rather wait until I can sit and pull my MacBook out of my backpack.

It's so depressingly hard though. I have a 65" screen mounted portrait to edit my TikToks, but the problem is that a lot of the features in editors these days, like CapCut, are only available in the mobile apps, so I have to sit there for the final step, with my phone, hacking away at the screen just to get the captions right.

A new high end cell phone is much faster and capable than the majority of computers I've owned, with a higher video resolution If I was really interested in doing more work on my cell I could get a keyboard for it and use the stylus I have in it even more.

I'm sure in the past people would have never expected a phone to be so powerful. And we should revere AI in the same way. Might not do much now, but that could/can change very rapidly.

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