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Smartphones feel like an example of where we have really gone backwards. Ten years ago you could get a Nokia N900 with its hardware keyboard, and it was entirel
by Mediterraneo10 6y ago
Smartphones feel like an example of where we have really gone backwards. Ten years ago you could get a Nokia N900 with its hardware keyboard, and it was entirely comfortable to check my e-mail by SSHing from the N900 to my home computer which was running Emacs server and to which my e-mail was downloaded (as POP3, so no hanging like IMAP).
- oblio 6y ago> Smartphones feel like an example of where we have really gone backwards. For techies, which are something like 1-5% of the population. For everyone else, for grandpa and grandma, smartphones are a giant leap forward.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoThis is a forum by techies for techies. Was it really necessary to spell this out?