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Something weird is happening with this. I understand the author gets paid based on writing articles, so maybe it makes sense for him to squeeze out 2000 words
by droopyEyelids 7y ago
Something weird is happening with this.
I understand the author gets paid based on writing articles, so maybe it makes sense for him to squeeze out 2000 words on the minute differences between cell phones.
But certain people at my work will talk to each other about the differences in their cell phones for hours each day. Differences that I think 90% of humanity wouldn't even notice, let alone have the motivation to mention.
I don't know what's going on with average people's brains where they can pour so much attention and energy into something as fundamentally boring and unimportant as the row of black pixels on a phone.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoThey just found a way to play Top Trumps or Pokemon without a pack of the cards. :) Ars Technica do it in their phone reviews too - the only measure of a phone over there is thinness of bezel. Doesn't matter about anything else.
- firasd 7y agoIt's because -- especially since the iPhone, but even before (cf. Sidekick) -- the phone is a consumer fashion item as much as a tool. So it's the same as people talking about whether a pattern in a dress is hand-stitched or machine-stitched etc.