Comment on ...is this retro?
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 months agoA LOT of people have completely failed to grasp how much technology has stagnated in the last 20 years.
Comment on ...is this retro?
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 months agoA LOT of people have completely failed to grasp how much technology has stagnated in the last 20 years.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
Yeah, my smart phone with Internet access basically everywhere begs to differ.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Phones didn’t changed fundamentally since 2015.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
Saying technology hasn’t progressed in 10 years is a very different statement than technology hasn’t progressed in 20 years.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Phones, as we know them today, entered market much later than consoles or PCs.
My point is that eventually we hit the ceiling of progress. PCs and consoles hit their peak 20 years ago while phones did 10 years ago. Things haven’t changed in a while for both of them and it doesn’t feel so far that there will be major progress any time soon.
RalfWausE@feddit.org 1 month ago
The Iphone entered the marked in 2007, before that is what entirely possible to connect a PDA to the internet via you dumbphone (using IRC from my palm pilot in the 90s surely felt cool…)
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
My phone can literally be used as VR goggles and stream HD video pretty much anywhere in the country. But smart phones existed in 07 and PDAs existed in the 90s. Yeah, no difference between these things. lol.
RalfWausE@feddit.org 1 month ago
Ah… you mean its better at providing a more potent form of a digital drug? Ok…
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 month ago
The first smartphones were released in 2007….
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
You don’t think there’s any difference between today’s phones and the 2007 ones? Not in cell coverage either?
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 month ago
Not in terms of navigating a city, which have had universal coverage since the flip phone days.
Also, just an FYI: GPS has had global coverage since the 1970s and doesn’t require a cell signal at all.
Smart phone advancements have been incremental since they were released, very little had changed in terms of basic functionality. The biggest difference is that you can listen to music while your getting navigated now.