remember when phones were a fun and exciting new frontier in technology rather than soulless surveillance hell portals?
>>109455946I don't, actually. Smartphones were locked down hell from their inception, a look into the hell we'd have on PC if IBM had its way, the shitty apps a pointless distraction, apps starting to dip their toes into spying on you. Just because they were less blatant about it and you were more ignorant as a kid does not make tech of that time better.
>>109455946>picture unrelated
>>109455946no?
>>109455946>soilennials thought this was the funniest thing ever
good times.
>>109455946For me it was Jelly Car and that app where you could shoot guns when you tapped them.
>>109455946>piconly retards installed this
in retrospect, the excitement faded pretty quickly if you look at it in relative terms, you had the initial explosion that coincided with the financial crisis and lasted, I don't know, 5 years give or take? then it immediately became common and normalized, the exploration phase was over and the concept of a smartphone was settled
>>109455946I upgrade my phone once every 5 years so it's still exciting desu.
>>109456621we were 8 years old, so...
>>109455960>Smartphones were locked down hell from their inception>t. zoomer who was not born yet when the phone mod scene was at its peak
>>109455960Fpbp. They went from useless toys to niggerware infested globohomo rectangles
>>109455946remember when you were a fun kid and not a lame adult?
>>109456755>phone mod sceneWAOW!!! LE CYDIA LE THEEEMES MOBILESPRINGBOARD JUST CRASHED!!! It was shit, and always was shit. So was the Symbianslop and Winphone slop that came before it.
>>109457033winphone was basically win9x levels of software freedom as in free to modify another process memory and system libraries.we were just lucky that nobody bothered to seriously exploit that because there were no high value targets to exploit.
>>109455960>>109457033/thread
>>109457033>he never installed a custom OS on his phonekek
>>109457147CyanogenMod and the like back in the 2010s were for dickwaving and e-peen, similar to the jailbreak scene. Imagine thinking overclocking your fucking Android lagphone did anything.
>>109457216A literal n-no u? Pathetic.
>>109457397>literal
>>109457216>if I can't come up with anything cool to do with a rooted device, no one else can eithersucks to be you I guess
>>109457425Yes
>>109455946I remember>what are you, poor?then everyone and the whole world got trolled by gigacorps, ebin
>>109455960I liked Palm OS. Yeah, it wasn't free in any way but it was a nice experience at that time.
>>109457033>t. zoomer having a meltdown when exposed for being underaged
>>109455946yeah that was with nokia phones though not ishitthey seemed like more mechanical phones for doing stuff rather than passive devices for consumingthe igarbage era was the begining of the soulless era
They were fun because people were fun.
>>109456623>i buy the same device every 5 years to support more bloated software
>>109458032>ishit>igarbage every time i see this shit it feels like i'm reading a blog from 2007
>>109455946iphones are and still are cool as fuck
>>109455946is still hear the whip lash sound effect. Normies were have the time of their lives, now they're doomscrolling>>109458080robotic hands typed this
>>109458117iphones are cool as fuck though, its a status symbol as well
>>109455946No, I wasn't alive in the 1800s.
>>109455946Shartphones were always a way to force you to endure endless marshmallow tests and consolidate all your activities onto one device to make you easier to track.It only got worse once data plans became less dogshit and you could actually use wireless data without being constrained to wifi, which really kicked off the doomscrolling and adslop.
>>109456631The guy in the pic isn't 8.
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>>109455946Who else remembers the fake fingerprint scanner appLong before touch id was a thing
I don't think there was even a split second in my life where I was excited about anything involving phones. Never needed a mobile phone, except for accessing my fucking bank account in a few years if things keep going the way they are.
>>109455960Very wrong. My first smartphone had windows 6.1 mobile and I could actually write code and make my own apps on it. You're just a retarded zoomer who doesn't know what his talking about. FYI, I fucking hate windows now but they weren't as bad back then.
>>109457033Seems more like a skill issue to me. Sorry you suck
I love Nokia...
>>109458080>>109458141You seem to have spilled some ink on your anime pictures, anon
>>109455946>what I did in 2009 instead of buying bitcoins
>>109459109>car romsWhat the hell is even that
>>109459239An analogy.
