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Except I find I'm biased against an author when they make categorically false statements that are within the same realm as the primary topic. > It’s getting ha
by settsu 9y ago
Except I find I'm biased against an author when they make categorically false statements that are within the same realm as the primary topic.
> It’s getting hard to remember, but a decade ago — before iPhone — all our mobiles were dumbphones. We’d use them to call or text and perhaps play the occasional game of snake. But that’s it. That’s all we could do.
That's just simply unture.
Yes, on the one hand, it's a contextually small detail. Unfortunately, on the other hand, I can't help feel it calls into question the rest of the content since they couldn't be bothered inform them self on a basis point.
Edit: Blockquote fail
- falsedan 9y agoYes, this article is terrible; it wastes the reader's time with pointless minutia, uses too much rhetoric, and doesn't get its facts in order. > writes for El Reg
- djrogers 9y agoYes, it is technically untrue, but it's close enough to true that it shouldn't be big point of contention. In 2006 64million smartphones were sold. vs ~1billion total cell phones. Given that dumbphones were not replaced nearly as often as smartphones, it's very easy to extrapolate that well under 5% of the phones in the world were smartphones.