we ~~could watch stuff~~ could watch ads
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And porn
The weight scale is misrepresented, though.
Now I’m mad
Good catch!
I absolutely hate that phones got so darn big. Im stuck with iPhone 13 mini even though I hate iOS with no clear upgrade path
I wish 2g and 3g weren't being dismantled. I want to go back to using my old razr
Porn, this meme used to say porn! Why do we keep self censoring?
Do tankies hate porn?
I have never met anyone that didn't like porn. Even your most prudish Christians like porn. Why do you think they fight so hard to ban it, they like it and are ashamed for liking it.
I agree with the sentiment, but porn is maybe too restrictive. Phones basically became the new TV.
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The social media algorithms that give us fake internet points have conditioned us to comply.
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It used to be porn but that was back when phone screens were 16:9. Now they are 18:9 and thats for vertical scrolling of social media feeds.
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Anyone remember when Steve Jobs said in response to adding video support to the iPod that "nobody wants to watch videos on a handheld?" And then just a few months later, iPods got support for images and videos?
and when iPhone 4 was released, Apple also explained it had the perfect size because you could reach any part of the screen with your thumb while holding it in your hand... but also, antennagate. Steve Jobs was full of crap.
"we" = "they"
Look at all that screen real estate. Utterly wasted on ads and super tall fonts.
"Owning your hardware" implies the bootloader is unlockable and relockable.
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By stuff you mean animated GIFs of big breasted horse hung transgender anthropomorphic lions being violated by giant alien tentacles, right?
Just say porn
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And what if I don't want to watch "stuff" on my phone? My phone is supposed to be a portable "swiss-army-knife" of digital tools.
They made tablets for the other "stuff"
I think most of the population are on tiktok and that crack, need big screen for maximum experience...
I'll never forget circa 2005, my friend was at the Montreal jazz festival or something. He told me about it and he said he took a video. He whipped out his phone that was basically a really thick pen. He showed me a video of another friend doing goofy stuff. Even on this tiny phonewith a tiny screen, it was really enough. I miss the time when someone took out his phone and you actually had no idea what to expect.
Would love a slightly thicker phone with a huge removable battery
also we have to encase our phones in cases because they're not durable enough to survive day to day life. they could be made more rugged from the factory
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I have small hands and I hate how few small phones there are now
iPhone 13 mini user here; I can relate. Anything bigger than this is too big for me. I will use it until it breaks or security updates stop. After that I will have to see.
Older, smaller phones with PostmarketOS come to mind. But this OS is not ready for day-to-day-use, just yet.
My latest was a zenfone 10, which was the smallest I could find that had good features. It was not easy to find anything though 😑
I have larger than small hands and hate how few "small" phones there are.
I have hands and hate how few "small" phones there are.
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I remember back in 1990ish, there was a guy involved in the local music scene who got interviewed on AM radio (Right before the rise of conservative talk radio, when there were still local hosts talking about local issues.). This guy wasn't a big shot and not a musician, just a guy passabout music. tmusic. He went by the moniker Jim Clevo, I had the fortune of meeting him once. Anyways, he had insight as to where the music industry was headed. In the interview, he told how in the future we would be listening to music through our phones. At the time high tech was a cordless landlines with an answering machine built in. He sounded crazy, i couldn't figure out why he thought we would all be holding phones up to our ears listening to music, I never had anything but a corded phone at the time. Not sure why I'm rambling about it other than this post reminded me of him.
I mean as soon as cassettes were a thing, mix tapes by holding the cassette to the radio became a thing right? Why not phones?
Hell back in the 80s, before the breakup of Yugoslavia, they went a step further: they had a home PC that could be built from parts available at electronics stores. It used a cassette recorder for a HDD.
A local radio station started broadcasting software, pc owners could record the audio of a program on a Walkman, then put the tape in their PC.
There's a past we never got where a radio-based internet existed alongside the landlines based one.
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We didn't "realise" we could watch stuff; we got touch screen technology, wifi and mobile data became cheaper as we got 3G, 4G and 5G. The we *could *watch stuff, and browse the internet - this was always the obvious course of phones even in the 90s when bricks were still around. Meanwhile battery tech hasn't moved forwards much, so these big screen, wifi, Bluetooth & 5G connected,video playing devices need bigger batteries to keep going all day. Ironically a bigger device - even with a bigger screen - will have a longer battery life because you can physically fit a bigger battery in.
Also this chart stops at 2015 - and thats still accurate. Mobile phone tech has plateaued. Time was, iPhone launches each year were a big deal because Apple was good at bringing previously out a of reach tech into the mass market. Now all the changes are minor and phone launches are dull. iPhones are now just popular because they're iPhones. Chips are getting a bit more energy efficient pushing the capabilities a bit; but cameras, screens, storage and connectivity are probably as good as they're going to get for now beyone incremental changes.
We're now probably in the enshittification phase where companies try to justify ever increasing prices but can't - iPhone prices have been largely static for 5 years because Apple can't find a compelling reason to increase them. Whether there are stupid notches in the phone display, or expensive accessories like wireless headphones or now trying to up-sell people on software / services - ultimately a phone is just a phone now. The manufacturers latest hope is that somehow AI will allow them to charge more but it's looking like AI in it's current form has little value to consumers. Apple has delayed it's changes to Siri because it's struggling to make something that isn't basically just another unreliable overhyped LLM.
Realistically the next real leap in phones will probably only come if and when battery tech improves; if smaller high energy density batteries come then that really will unlock a new revolution. The AI bubble doesn't look like it's going to deliver.
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I think a lot of the reason phones are getting bigger is because of battery life. You can absolutely make a small phone with a big battery, but then it would be thicc and people (read plebs) don’t want little bricks, they want big slabs.
So for the few of us that want little bricks, we’re just entirely fucked. There are the Jelly phones, but they run Android, and I’d rather have a slab that spies on me a little less than a perfect brick filled to the brim with Google spyware.
I’m waiting and hoping and waiting and hoping that Linux phones get to the point where I can daily drive one.
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This graphic is missing the (de)evolution in phones when manufacturers unnecessarily started putting holes and notches in the screens.
#StopPuttingCutoutsInMyFuckingDisplays #BringBackBezels
Some phones go to the extreme, but my small circle camera cutout doesn't bother me. On a phone, it's always in the status/notification bar anyways so not a big deal unless you watch a lot of widescreen content.
The biggest deevolution must be audio jacks... the big lie of "we need to remove them so we can make your phones smaller", just for phones to get thicker. Surely it can fit.
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