• RalfWausE@feddit.org
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        10 hours 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…)

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          7 hours 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.

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          4 hours ago

          Saying technology hasn’t progressed in 10 years is a very different statement than technology hasn’t progressed in 20 years.

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          7 hours ago

          You don’t think there’s any difference between today’s phones and the 2007 ones? Not in cell coverage either?

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            6 hours 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.

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              4 hours ago

              Dude, take the rose tinted goggles off for a second. I had a GPS navigation system for my car early on, around ~2010, maybe a little earlier, that thing was shit. It could hardly figure out where I was in the city. It would very often snap to the wrong road and I’d have to reboot it. Today, it’s simple. I just pull out my magical everything device and use an app. Technology has progressed A TON in 20 years.

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                4 hours ago

                Yes. that is why smartphones replaced integrated navigation about 15 years ago. It’s OK that you were a late adopter, but that doesn’t change what happened. I was happily using google maps to navigate with my phone on a little holder on the dash and actively making fun of people like you by 2010.

                It was actually kind of funny to have better navigation and a better stereo in my 1993 Ford Ranger with a quarter million miles on it than dumbasses that bought new cars in 2010.