Why, in the name of everything holy, does anybody need a phone with a folding screen? What a fussy, pretentious, utterly boring thing to buy.
Folding Screen
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Why, in the name of everything holy, does anybody need a phone with a folding screen? What a fussy, pretentious, utterly boring thing to buy.
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I assume that’s for fogeys like me, who don’t like trying to read anything on a postage-stamp sized screen. But I’m still not in the market for a smartphone, so… whatever.
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“does anybody need a phone with a folding screen?”
Wrong question during end-stage capitalism. The right question is: Can people be made to think a folding screen will fill some hitherto-unfulfilled psychological need? My guess: no, as methylethyl suggests it suggests vision problems and/or advanced age – since very, very few people go around thinking ‘I wish I didn’t see so well’ or ‘I wish I were really old!’ this is unlikely to catch on…
In other words, it’s Malibu Stacy’s hat… (old pop-culture reference that would take a while to explain so I’ll just post the clip)
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That’s a great insight. I hope this horrid invention flops. It’s so stupid.
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…though TBH I’m such a luddite that it took me reading the whole post through a couple of times to realize you were talking about stupid phone tech, and not Japanese furniture. And then I spent a minute struggling with my offense over why anyone would denigrate a beautiful (and in some cases useful) piece of home furnishing, and my total agreement about the idiocy of the tech version. It was an odd feeling.
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Unfortunately not everyone can have a cushy public sector job. Developing worthwhile products that people want to buy isn’t easy.
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