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Niki Tonsky

Meditated a lot on this picture. Apparently phone means very specific thing to younger generation, like “handheld computer with apps”. And very specific apps, too, because this one has Google Maps and YouTube, and it’s still not a phone
11 June at 12:43 | Open on mastodon.online
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ldvsoft

@nikitonsky I have to agree that we've lost the term smartphone. Now only phones and dump phones exist.

11 June at 12:53 | Open on fosstodon.org
Григорий Клюшников

ldvsoft, the word "phone" just means different things as new types of phones get invented and become more popular than the previous ones, nothing wrong with that. Before affordable mobile phones took over the world, it meant landline by default.

11 June at 13:28
ldvsoft
Григорий Клюшников

ldvsoft, the real problem is how the entire world now expects you to have a smartphone capable of running apps for either of the two OSes.

11 June at 13:47
Matthew O'Donnell

@nikitonsky idk if 1996 counts as younger gen, but the only phones I’ve ever owned were iPhones.

To me, phone in this context is shorthand for something like “connectivity” or “the internet”, but in a total way. If you have your phone you can make the real world stop and the digital world begin. That’s what this person is not doing for the summer.

The crappy screen on their replacement phone is more important than not having YouTube. Just my read though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

11 June at 12:58 | Open on mastodon.social
Niki Tonsky
Григорий Клюшников

Matthew, I'm 3 years older than you yet I somehow consider watching any form of video on a phone (any phone) a kind of torture. Like I want a "proper" screen for that, like a laptop or a monitor, one that I don't have to hold in my hands.

Using internet from your phone, in any shape or form, was a very esoteric thing to do until about late 00s around me. I did do it, but most people didn't, for them the browser icon was "don't touch this unless you want to have a bad time when your parents see your phone bill". So somehow I still consider my phone a very limited communication device that also has an okay camera. I hardly use my phone at home.

Matthew, I'm 3 years older than you yet I somehow consider watching any form of video on a phone (any phone) a kind of torture. Like I want a "proper" screen for that, like a laptop or a monitor, one that I don't have to hold in my hands.

Using internet from your phone, in any shape or form, was a very esoteric thing to do until about late 00s around me. I did do it, but most people didn't, for them the browser icon was "don't touch this unless you want to have a bad time when your parents see your...

11 June at 13:36
bouncepaw 🍄

@nikitonsky makes perfect sense to me (zoomer here)

11 June at 13:55 | Open on merveilles.town
Cabel Sasser

@nikitonsky this is awesome. I wonder what they would call the thing on the left?! Hand me my ……?

12 June at 15:51 | Open on social.panic.com
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