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veen  ·  3137 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 29% of Android devices can’t be patched by Google – Naked Security

Might be a good idea then to not start the discussion with statements like these:

    This is a serious question: why would anyone want a smartphone? [...]

    I honestly have no idea what is the appeal.

'Not fitting your needs right now' is completely different from 'I don't see any appeal for any person'.

Anyway, do you know the saying "don't knock it 'till you tried it"? How much time have you spent with smartphones? Genuine question. The thing about smartphones is that you can do so many things with it that it's extremely likely that a smartphone will enhance your life.





Devac  ·  3137 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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veen  ·  3137 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've read your bio before. I was going to respond to your first paragraph more extensively, but saw that kleinbl00 already stole my thunder. Go read the book he recommends, I am also reading it and enjoying it.

The main reason I wrote that it might not be a good idea to phrase it that way is that even though you stated your honesty pretty clearly, your tone and pros / cons didn't really made that believable. Try replacing 'smartphone' with 'laptop' in your post and it might become more clear; it's what _refugee_ was arguing. Kleinbl00, combining your response to ref with your original post, also noticed the discontinuity in your statements and thus thought you might be intentionally flippant. I think that was a reasonable statement to make.

And yeah, most flimsy smartphones have dumb touchscreens that aren't perfect but it is a price well worth paying for the insane amount of use most people get out of it. Have you taken a look around the app stores, like beyond the well-known brand apps? There are so many niche apps, like for tracking sleep or predicting when your train arrives or giving you a Pomodoro timer or for tracking cryptocurrency or for having all the world's knowledge in your hands. Plus, go visit a Media Markt sometime - the phones there are actually not that different from what the rest of Europe has.