it ruined the world and you know it

>>106166043 (OP)
Pretty much.

>>106166043 (OP)
>>106166131
what can be done then?

>>106166043 (OP)
dont be so anti-semitic

>>106166043 (OP)
This and social media. Normies wouldn't have cared about constant internet access if they weren't addicted to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others.

>>106166043 (OP)
but nowadays I think Apple is the "better" company than microsoft, I used to think different back in the days.

>>106166043 (OP)
he just accelerated the inevitable

why the fuck did i ever need Facebook on my phone or even better, at all? why do i need 6 inches of glass slab which is uncomfortable to hold and type on without making errors, and with a day of battery? All at the cost of my humanity and intelligence.

>>106166293
he supposedly was disturbed by tech addiction and restricted his own daughter's usage of his products, but still sold them to you and your kids.

>>106166043 (OP)
I miss the days when I was unusual for spending whole days looking at a screen

>>106166310
Just don’t be a retarded faggot and restrict your kids’ access too

>>106166336
but even that which you were consuming then was higher quality than what people engage with now

pda's were the logical extension of the desktop pc smartphones are just that plis a bunch of bullshit added on top to make spying on u easier

>>106166375
TRUTH NUKE!!!!!!!! we didnt need more

10 years ago you would've been called a luddite for even mildly suggesting they are too much for our attention spans to handle. Now people openly bemoan how they can't read a book or live without a phone

>>106166358
Parents are retarded and think that a constant line of communication with their kids is absolutely necessary

>>106166043 (OP)
Not quite. Social media and 4G are really what did it. That is what enabled normies to stay plugged in to an always-on sewer pipe of nonsense.

>>106166627
it was starting to become apparent as far back as iphone 3gs on, well, 3g in 2010

did it? i can't even renew my id card/driving license, book a medical exam or get my salary without giving out at least a phone number (which i can't get without providing id) and an email address, do you really think it's "smartphones" at fault for keeping us stuck to them and completely killing the separation between digital and real life?

>>106166749
yes

>>106166043 (OP)
there is absolutely nothing innovative about iPhones.

>>106166560
it's because they're used to being surveilled at work as a matter of course and by every other entity that can

>>106166823
so true it was the LG Prada’s fault, Steve Jobs copied it
lets go after the real enemy, LG!

If you're a phone addict you're part of the problem.

>>106166645
At that point it was just hip to have the expensive phone. "Obama uses a Blackberry" was unironic. Nobody was glued to them, and they were still understood to primarily be working devices. The iPhone itself was only available on AT&T in the US until the iPhone 4, and did not explode in popularity until then.

>>106167050
my social studies teacher was the first person i ever saw get an iphone, and hers was the first iphone i ever saw. all the kids were hyped about it back then, like it was already cool.

>>106167050
well i remember some complaining then by bb users of being "addicted" to their phones, though it's nothing like today
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Technology/story?id=2348779

If every smartphone disappeared overnight, the world would be a much better place for everyone. The normies, the nerds, the smart and the retarded, the working and the wealthy.

Killed ms paint with iPhones and then killed flash and that killed 4chan

>>106166043 (OP)
>>106167448
god we entered the wrong timeline

Pipe down

>>106166043 (OP)
>expensive PDA that can't install programs and can't copy & paste
It was shiny, but it was nothing new.

>>106167840
i think this is about me? but not everything fits. why is chud winning outside?

>>106167840
even zoomers hate their phones

>>106166137
Wait for the second Carrington Event.

>>106166137
Time travel back to 1945 and assassinate Milton Friedman.
You could also stop Hiroshima if you felt like having a giggle and seeing how that one would turn out.

1945 is required. Without 1945 for Friedman, you'll still end up with this inevitably.
I'd argue that even if you were to shotgun blast Jobs in 1992 you could not avoid this so long as the other event in 2007 happened. Again, would merely be delayed by about 3 years. You only need to look at Samsung & HTC to see where it was heading. In fact, if you wished to retain Nokia or Ericsson as distinct brands and manufacturers you'd have to go with poisoning Friedman in 1945, no other way.

>>106166043 (OP)
It was fine until the normies were able to afford them.

>>106169199
>normies
You don't fit in.
Also normalfaggots could always afford them, finance was available even throughout the gfc. Most of the cellphone industry relied on it at the time and it allowed the market to stabilise. All that changed was they stopped giving devices out free to high risk claims for a while, to offset any potential losses and packages changed to charge higher rates for things that didn't really cost the network much to offer.

>>106166043 (OP)
For once OP is not a faggot

>ruins the world
>dies

>>106168881
>>106169193
Thx bros

>>106166823
This. It was social media that ruined the world. Wouldn’t have mattered if you did it on a blackberry or a palm or an iPhone.

>>106166043 (OP)
I don't want to agree with this. It does give to you websites in the pocket of your trousers, a camera (photos), an mp3 player, reading books and files and a lot more! I would like to point at the users for failing in using this invention.
>>106166375
Plus the spying is a seriously evil use of the technology!

>>106167381
Everyone forgets that Crackberry was a thing.

>>106170655
except for the people at Crackberry forums, of course.

>>106171051
Those are still around? How?

>>106166043 (OP)
>it ruined the world and you know it
emotional woman statement

>>106171150
ask 'em
https://forums.crackberry.com/

>>106166043 (OP)
Trojan horse to ruin the internet and then censor/control it, controlling the internet back when the userbase was relatively small was impossible because the majority of users would've fought back so the solution was introducing this crap to the market, make the internet popular and when almost all the population is using the internet then proceed with their ambitions, now only like 1% of the internet users care about it being censored/controlled and if we fight back the other 99% will call us weirdos. So basically yes this shit ruined the world, is a machine to control the masses.

>>106171212
>chink licensed knockoffs
I shiggy diggy

>>106171157
retard nigger

>>106171232
>the majority of users would've fought back
Yeah, sure.

>>106171537
emotional woman reaction

>>106171546
Anon before smartphones there were like 100 million internet users and the internet while really hostile to new users it was pretty unified, nowadays there are almost 6 billion users and 99% are literally sub 90 IQ subhumans

>>106166043 (OP)
tbf this specific model (2g) didnt have an app store, only safari and a few other preinstalled apps like stocks/maps

>>106166043 (OP)
Only after Steve Jobs died. The world was better back then.

>>106166043 (OP)
Moving the normies to the internet broke the MSM's back and caused massed noticing to the point where they want to destroy the internet because it's so bad now. It will eventually have saved the west.
Normies are so pozzed and zogged that they ruined everything but that's not necessarily the fault of the normies, they grew up watching the MSM. They're slowly becoming more like us because we influence them more than anyone else now and one day they too will shitpost endlessly about their favorite anime waifu and won't be such a burden so it all will work out eventually.

>1900s
>read books, almanac
>2000s
read articles, blogs
>2020s
tweets or the caption of an instagram post, articles feel too long

>>106166043 (OP)
Humans were already trash, this just showed normies' true colors

>>106166043 (OP)
what a jerk

Steve Job's spirit will rise from the grave and all will know he was a faggot.

>>106166043 (OP)
the truth is men are tired of liberty

>>106172105
Steve Jobs at least had a vision and he hated anything that ruined user-experience. Compare the original YouTube app that shipped on the iPhone 3Gs with what YouTube is like now. He would be appalled at what the Internet has become if he were still alive now.