"The design drew inspiration from the concept of “a piece of cloth”

    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I know a lot of normies have iPhones because it’s a phone and they see it as a good phone. Fair enough (shitty monopolistic behaviour and Americans’ - yes, this is not a thing in my country - weird ostracisation of green text bubbles notwithstanding)

      But Apple is also the brand that made phones a “status symbol”.

      I can very easily believe this.

      There will be an upsetting number of people that buy this glorified, and much less useful, shoulder bag.

      • we are all@crazypeople.online
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        3 days ago

        yeah I understand your point.
        it was the year 2005, and I was rocking the tmobile MDA with a data plan. I showed folks around me the touch screen and browser and they were like NNNEERRRRD.

        2 years later they were flicking little paper wads into a little garbage can on their iPhone 3 and raising their pinky in the air as if they were the technical elite.

        Soo yeah

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          3 days ago

          Real homies remember that game they had on the palm pilot to learn the handwriting shorthand haha

          Seems I’m a bit younger than you, but for some reason this is in my core memories folder.