The iPhone killed cellphone design innovation.
In the spring of 2007 while the Blackberry device was still referred to as the Crackberry (was it the screens or the addictiveness?), the iPhone had its debut. A rehashing of a penless palm pilot, it was hailed as world changing technology. It’s the computer in the pocket, a monolith of perfection, I can see my face in it!
Two years later, there were still a ton of interesting phones being sold, but the writing was on the wall. The masses were being herded into a walled garden.
“Your music is lifestyle, you are a creative, you are anartist!” was screamed from flashy ads featuring proto-hipsters. Creative and influencer became a job title and just like that you could be just as vapid, useless and rich as your favorite unemployed heiress or heiress hanger on.
Just one year later brought in a slew of slab, monolithic generic phones.
Every phone went bland and iPhone-like overnight. Blame android if you want, but Apple was still doing the same thing from 2007 with less build quality, less battery life, more bloated, and shittier. We were already chowing down media in our walled garden of itunes.
Here are some interesting long lost phones that people have discarded. Too bad some are obsolete because of old network connectivity and too bad some are being killed off by 5G.
One per cent of people may now get their email faster or watch more generic crap filmed in the netflix laboratories, but 99% of us won’t get to use a cool unique phone.
Humbug. I am not really a geriatric Luddite, but get off my fucking lawn.
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