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Reminds me of when a school instructor walked by and looked at my laptop and he's like "whoa what is that" (I had Firefox running) and I said it was Linux and he was like "whoa I didn't know Linux could do that"
???
In this case they are clarifying that it isn't just a handheld device OS, it is a full desktop OS.
Maybe they'd only ever used it headless?