No they don't. What a rubbish clickbait article.

All they say is that there's a (niche) trend of a few people using feature phones with expected combined sales of $2.8 million. Versus the $200 billions of iPhones alone.

Of course, 'sharenting' is a word.

ublock origin with the annoyance list activated.

dark reader. It’s not perfect but I get most sites in a usable dark mode.

That’s mostly it.

This would have put Monty Python out of business. Or kept them going forever, hard to say.

The same company that shamed Apple for omitting the charging brick from the phone package (or the headphone jack) just to do so themselves shortly after?

They also made fun of Apple for the "notch" only to incorporate it in their own devices (though differently)?

So why keep this useless, failed platform in the news? Stop giving Musk publicity of any kind.

It's directly in the headline: Gen Z is ditching the iPhone. That's incorrect in two ways: A) it's at best one in fifty people buying aforementioned feature phones and B) they don't even know if all buyers replace their existing phone or buy it as an additional handset.

The original release of No Man's Sky, and Starfield.

I myself don't see them as bad games, but acknowledge the false promises, shortcomings, bugs, etc.

"Blowback Ahead"

blow back a head

I see what you did there.

And even an infinite number doesn't mean all. There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1, none of them is 2. So the multiverse wouldn't have to include one that contradicts its rules.

Why are more visitors than artists going to the galleries?

Didn't ask for them, won't use them. WhatsApp is not Twitter, is not Insta, is not TikTok, is not [insert social media name].

Could be opportunism. Fox senses that Trump might go to prison or get barred from the election in another way, and so they either prepare endorsing a different candidate or are simply cautious.

But it's journalism by accident at best.

Man, Mark Zuckerberg's gotten old.

That's most annoying. I can live with chests and drawers full of potions. But imagine how much work an artist put into a beautiful item like a weapon or an armour piece, and then it's never used because it drops from the final boss only.

Who am I supposed to kill with that superior war-axe anyway, there's no enemy left? Give me these items mid-game, so I can enjoy and cherish them.

I think it's a fad. The moment you need a certain app or feature these feature (-less) phones become frustrating quickly.

Take the idea of taking a break from your smartphone on a vacation. You end up without a camera, without a map, without public transport apps, contact-free payment, etc.

I don't know what time in the past you compare the present to, but my current PC boots quicker into Windows, starts up Steam, and launches a 70 Gigabyte game than a 286 could count its two Megabytes of RAM on POST.

To "double-click an .exe file" one had to manually launch DOSShell or Windows, because else one would have to traverse into the game's directory (by heart). But launching a game via Windows would often leave the machine with too few resources to run the game.

Did I mention the constant reboots to switch RAM and driver configurations because not every game would just run? The hassle to setup sound cards? Having to have the game disks ready all the time?

You made a real PowerPoint there.

According to this article, Samsung doesn't block that, it's just badly implemented:

https://9to5google.com/2023/07/27/galaxy-z-flip-5-google-wallet/

Facebook / Meta is one of the few data hoarding companies that doesn't have "full control" of how their products are consumed / used and how much data gets collected in which way. Apple has the Mac, TV, Watch, and iPhone platforms. Google has the Pixels, Android, and Nests, Amazon has Kindles, Fire, Alexa devices, and so on.

Facebook doesn't have any of these. The best they can do today is being a parasitic add-on to a platform they have no total control over like "the others" do.

Making their own hardware is a key element, not a burden. But they're still treating it like the latter. If the Metaverse would already have been the New Thing (tm), they'd have been the quasi-dominators of that territory because they're pioneering the hard- and software. But along came AI which doesn't need it's own hardware platform, and still nobody wants to live in the Metaverse.