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I still don't understand why people care so much about the iPhone. It's a bad computer that fits in your pocket. We've had PDAs for going on thirty years. Sure,
by adfigninio 6y ago
I still don't understand why people care so much about the iPhone. It's a bad computer that fits in your pocket. We've had PDAs for going on thirty years. Sure, it was a good PDA, but I have no idea how anyone can consider it revolutionary.
"Consumer" tech hasn't improved at all in my estimation since about 2002. The hardware has gotten better and the software has gotten more bloated, but a modern gadget can do roughly zero things that a gadget from 2002 couldn't.
- arnaudsm 6y agoI agree a lot on the increasingly bloated software. Even if Moore's law dies, we still have >20 years of software improvement to do !
- aglionby 6y ago2002 was the year of the Nokia 7650, their first phone with a camera - 0.3MP which it displayed on its 176x208 screen. It cost €740 in 2020 money (€550 back then). In 2020 you can buy a second generation iPhone SE for €489, with a 1334x750 screen (at >6x pixel density) and 12MP camera. These are not roughly equivalent pieces of hardware, and the software they run differs immensely. MMS is not Instagram.