Then why do PCs let you check your SSD / HDD health and integral info through OS codes, while phones (Android based specifically) have no such commands ? Doesn’t it make more sense to include such things in phones since they hold sensitive personal data, and therefore are just as prone to data loss as PC hard drives ? (if not more, since you can’t just swap a phone’s storage unit if it starts to fail…)
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Traditional computers were meant to be tools for the user. Desktops in particular are designed to be easily expanded and repaired as needed. This design comes from a time where buying a personal computer was a significant investment, and people would keep them for a long time. Part of that can still be seen in gaming computers. The tools you are talking about come from that design.
Phones are not meant to be a tool for the user. They are meant to be advertising channels for marketing departments, points of sales for corporations, and analytics collectors for industry and government. They are designed to be inaccessible and impossible to repair (or modify) by the user. This forces you to replace your phone every few years, which works well for the industry as well, since you are financing the upgrade of their advertising channel/point of sale/surveillance device for them.
Or did you think you owned your phone?
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