Post #2405143
2026-05-10 23:21 UTC
Smartphones are such an utter wretch nowadays, & I’m not even sure if there was a time they weren’t. I don’t get the appeal of a smartphone, they do everything a dumbphone does but worse, more expensive & with an unremovable thick layer of scum, yeah a smartphone has some of the features of a laptop or desktop but who needs that baked into their phone for every moment?
People are trying so hard to fix smartphones (even by giving money to the least privacy respecting companies ever by buying Google phones) when they can get a dumbphone and be rid of those problems in the first place. Well that’s my opinion at least, I think it might be a bit extreme.
Replies (3)
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@Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-11 01:49
You really don’t get the appeal or you just feel differently? I don’t like roller coasters but my reasoning doesn’t include me not getting the appeal others have for them.
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@Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2026-05-11 07:43
but who needs that baked into their phone for every moment? Approximately 5.78 billion people.
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@lemmyng@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 00:00
“even by giving money to the least privacy respecting companies ever by buying Google phones” To be fair, Pixels are available secondhand, often in Mint condition, which is why my last three Pixels and any other phone/tablet I’ve bought have been through swappa.com.