• @[email protected]
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    -311 months ago

    People don’t care. They buy whatever marketing tells them to buy. Lines around the block for the first iPhone when it was vastly inferior to the other phones of the day. Couldn’t even use custom ringtones. Knew then that people really are sheep.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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      111 months ago

      It’s not about caring. It’s the lack of choice.

      Telecoms lock out phones and say “To use our network, you must use x.”

      • @n0clue
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        111 months ago

        IDK the Zune HD was vastly superior to the iPod touch and cheaper.

      • @[email protected]
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        -411 months ago

        Nope. ATT at the time the iPhone came out didn’t have a whitelist. Any unlocked phone with the right radios could be used. Which is why I used ATT for a decade or so. Then the 5G bullshit came out and suddenly ATT wouldn’t activate a phone unless they blessed it first. So now I’m on Mint which is way cheaper and I can still use any phone that’s compatible. No whitelist.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      Nothing was superior to the iPhone when it came out. It successfully married multiple types of mobile device into one device. Not even ashamed to admit that while several other devices did the individual things it did better, nothing brought them together like that.

      That said, modern smartphones are a bit ridiculous and the idea of spending $1200 every two years on a phone should be revolting to people. iPhone or Samsung, stop fucking doing this sheeple.

      • @[email protected]
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        -411 months ago

        I had a Windows phone at the time that was vastly more capable. I could use any MP3 I wanted for a ringtone for starters. iPhone couldn’t do that. iPhone was a Fisher Price children’s toy in comparison.

    • @Nurgle
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      011 months ago

      Genuinely can’t tell if this comment is parody or not.