Found this antique prediction from around 2012. How did it pan out?
Found this antique prediction from around 2012. How did it pan out?
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Cute, they thought that it would only grow in one dimension while in reality it did in two.
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I like how at the time we hadn't even considered the entire slab would be a screen, like the memes still have the home button at the bottom. I get that it's a meme but still.
We also probably assumed the headphone jack would never go away either so.
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It was my prediction. We've even got ones with a screen that wraps onto the side. A screen on the back side hasn't happened yet, though.
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But it's just dumb, so it hasn't caught on.
I hate phones with glass backsides, I've replaced the back of my S20 a dozen times before switching to a phone with a plastic back. Yes it looks nice (if you use it without a cover), but it breaks so easily. It's always super thin glass, not the thick gorilla glass like the front. If you look at it wrong it cracks.
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Yeah we have. We even had a phone that had an e-paper display on one side for low power usage. Almost all the folding phones have a screen that is on the back when unfolded.
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You could argue that folding phones have screens on the back, just not the full thing, and not always the back
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My zFold would like a word
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I’m not gonna do the math myself, but in terms of total screen size it’s probably pretty close to accurate.
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I can fit 24 rows of apps ON MY DICK!
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The iPhone Pro Max is a big boy
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This is a really great illustration of how mere extrapolation can lead you to shitty conclusions.
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Perfection.
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There's always an xkcd!
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This is basically the slippery slope fallacy in a picture.
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The 10 didn't get that far, but the current biggest phone is not much smaller. Just wider instead of taller.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ucl5w-bztkk/maxresdefault.jpg
They just keep getting bigger...
https://img1.mydrivers.com/img/20201016/f2c6001212474dc6a2910a195aa17350.jpg
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I love my mini so much
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Make it foldable and it's pretty much exactly what happened.
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Who remembers the lg chocolate or whatever it was called with like a 25:1 aspect ratio or whatever lol
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Sony Xperia
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This is exactly what I would do if I was stealing data legally from my users. Ignore it (except what I can make a quick buck on) and keep shoving asinine bs to them for no reward other than my fiscal bonuses.
Apple, fuck life different.
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It didn't.
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I like this prediction too!
Incredible. We haven't changed much, have we?
So civilised