Re: France Wants to Sue Apple for Planned Obsolescence

The Real Bev <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Aug 2023 13:48:29 -0700
Newsgroups comp.misc,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,alt.cellular.nokia
Organization None, as usual
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/2/23 12:11 PM, nospam wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Otto J. Makela
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> > As to "the consumer has rejected it", phones with integrated computers
>> > of some sort existed before the iPhone and were largely rejected by
>> > consumers are large.
>> 
>> Being from Finland, I'd like to point out that this view is a bit
>> US-centric.
> 
> it is not.
> 
>> Nokia had their Symbian smartphones (first models came out
>> in 2001), they just didn't in the end succeed against Apple and Google.
> 
> that's because they weren't very good. in other words, consumers
> rejected it.

The flip-phones were fine.  We sent mine (with a charger, of course) to 
an elderly aunt to keep in her pocket in case she ever had to dial 911. 
So far, so good.

-- 
Cheers, Bev
   "Dammit I'm Mad" is "Dammit I'm Mad" spelled backwards.