And a time where 3rd party companies had no access to any of them
us and our 735 partners care about your privacy
Only 735?
Well each of them and their 735 parters, so… 540,255 partners at most. 😀
What about their partners’ partners?
Well, the headphones are still a separate thing. They are even more separate now, than they ever were (each one earphone is separate now)
No if you just play music on your phone speaker loudly.
There’s our perp, boys! Move! Move!
I’m sure everyone enjoys a little bit of music in public places. And I’m sure everyone likes the type of music I’m listening to. Wat’s the problem?
Yes, your honor. This comment right here is why we’re seeking a conviction.
(I was kidding BTW)
I bet there are people drooling at the idea of making those headphones part of people’s heads
Young people today are increasingly choosing to have separate dedicated-purpose devices. And that’s probably a good thing. It decreases distractions, lets you focus on what you’re actually trying to do, and makes you less addicted to your phone, and avoids the always-connected evils that come with it
Plus, a single-purpose device is often better at that purpose than a combined device … especially when compared at the same price-for-price level.
A decent standalone digital camera will take far better pictures than any phone camera ever made … while still costing less than the best phone cameras.
A standalone mp3 player is smaller, cheaper, and has longer battery life than a phone, and it still plays music just as well.
Don’t you remember the joy of carrying around a dozen proprietary cables. Oh dads cable drawer was great.
Now you need to carry around a dozen USB-C cables that all look identical, but can do different things.
This one can do video, this one can do fast charging but no data at all, this one has fast data transfer…
Huh what? Is this a thing with USB-C cables? I always used the same cable for everything and I’m fine
Same. That’s the whole point of USB C. You buy one good cable and use it for everything.
Yes, there are ones that are only USB 2, also some can deliver more power than others. If you want to charge a USB-C notebook for example, you need 100 W rated cables.
They do not all behave the same. I have many of them that are supplied as a charging cable in small electronic devices. These ubiquitous USB-C cables will not perform a data connection with your phone. At all. I have to search for that one cable that I know works for data since it moves around the house.
Are you aware you can buy a 240W/40Gps cable?
Honestly, the idea of pushing 240W through a USB-C cable kind of terrifies me. That’s a lot of power for such little wires…
And it was awesome.
And some of us are returning to this simplicity and privacy
Serious question: What do you do about maps/navigation? I travel a bit and that’s the one thing I can’t find out of the big tech ecosystem.
We used to have bits of paper with lines representing geography
There’s still standalone GPS units.
You can buy a small gps (bunch on amazon) to stick to your windshield or dash. Its what i had before android, and they still apply.
Mapquest was how we used to do it. Essentially, you would have a list of directions. If you get lost, you go backwards a bit and then… ask someone where to go lol. You can even like, read a map and decide the directions yourself, I know this sounds crazy.
Paper maps and map books still exist, and they’re pretty useful for navigation. If you stay at hotels, they usually give you some simple maps of the area with the most important features highlighted.
If you still want to use online maps, OSM (Open Street Maps) is a great project that doesn’t depend on any big tech maps. It also works completely offline if your frontend allows downloading maps. CoMaps is a good client for phones. You can contribute to OSM yourself if you miss anything.
I second comaps. Sucks for public transport tbh but works great for walking/cycling/cars. For public transport I use Offi Directions, but it mostly just supports the APIs of German and Austrian public transport companies
And it was beautiful
I don’t remember having to deal with USB-C earbuds before the iPhone.
Yes, please bring it back.
Ah yes, Lightning headphones. Or USB-C, can’t tell. Either way, none of the iPods accept these. Meanwhile late keypad phones all have headphone jacks…
EDIT: yup, USB-C. Also, the phone has a clock. And a camera, not a good one but a camera. It’s a ~2008-2010s Samsung.
That’s definitely USB-C on the headphones in the pic, lightning has the little white connectors visible on the flat sides.
That’s today if you’re looking for quality for any of them.
And that’s was a good thing too.
I literally have all of these things separate today.
Smartphone, mechanical watch, wallet, wireless headphones but also a Fiio portable audio player that can drive my good wired headphones.
These things all do their job very well. Combining them makes everything worse for me.
Exception maybe is camera, I have a good Fuji digital mirrorless but I do actually enjoy using the very good cameras in my phone as well.
I don’t miss all the different cables but fuck, do I miss being able to listen to a song without having to silence a spam call in the middle of it
I literally remember this. I was living in the US in circa 2000. I remember standing outside my apartment with a mobile phone, a GPS system, an iPod, and a digital camera, and thinking ‘these should all be one thing’!
And here we are, 26 years later, and all of these things are deeply infected with unnecessary LLM bullshit. Progress!
