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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)_/¯

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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...

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