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 |
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| 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.