Why is my phone so useless?

Why is my phone so useless?
I mean I’m a programmer. I can make it do what I want, can’t I?
And yet, actually, I’m as bad as anyone. Allowing my phone and its apps. to define my activities.
I still depend on the laptop for all the things that are for me. My phone makes me a consumer of other people’s services and channels me in its own direction.
I don’t have an answer to this. So I’m just making a ThoughtStorms page to track it.