Post #3267188

2026-06-08 03:37 UTC

This needs to be a blog post, this really needs to be a blog post, I spaffed out the first post in the thread off the top of my head and then went and had dinner and fucked around a bit and then came back and carried on and didn't notice that the first post was blowing up Anyway then the iphone came out and fucked everything up

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@ifixcoinops@retro.social 2026-06-08 03:49

See the iPhone was fucking shit compared to other smartphones at the time, like it was YEARS behind, but apple did that thing where, like, remember how they did it with MP3 players? Instead of saying stuff like "four gigs of space, six hour battery life" they said "A thousand songs in your pocket and you don't have to fuck around with CDs," while all the other MP3 player makers were fighting over people who already knew about MP3 players, apple targeted people who'd never used an MP3 player before, and that's what they did with their smartphone. Anyway it didn't have a keyboard, it couldn't do flash, and you couldn't even copy and paste on the fucker but it sold like buggery because the adverts didn't say shit like "600mHz processor and 256 megs of RAM," they said "The internet in your pocket." Now you can't make just one website anymore, you have to make two websites, and suddenly the point of all this CSS stuff becomes clear

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@benpocalypse@mastodon.social 2026-06-08 03:41

@ifixcoinops@retro.social I think the real final nail in the flash coffin is when Steve Apple refused to let it onto the iPhone.

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