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1. a TV you could hang on the wall like a picture
2. a typewriter that would enable correcting what you wrote
He was right!
(I remember when my dad was writing a book, my mom spent endless hours retyping the revised manuscripts. It seemed like a hellish task to me. I'm glad that job is gone.)
This article really resonates with me. Sometimes I stop and think that in actuality people do very little computing with their devices. If people actually used computers to manage their life, a windows 95 dekstop would already be plenty powerful to run all the necessary software. As always, entertainment and ads are what keeps the treadmill going
I often think this way about my smartphone: what do I need the “smart” for? Maps, messenger, banking app, taking/viewing photos, web browser, listening to audio (music, podcasts, audiobooks), taxi app, calendar/reminders. Seems so little… How old of a hardware could support my needs?
Camera and screen quality are often what the new generation of a phone is sold on.
For everything else, yeah if you're not watching videos or gaming then you probably don't need a top-end model.
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> "[...] every marketer intuited that a home computer would be used for storing recipes. It never happened." Storing recipes "never happened"? Rubbish! Even famous cook Casey Ryback used his Apple Newton to store recipes, as evidenced in the 1995 documentary Under Siege 2 [1]. 1. [ https://starringthecomputer.com/feature.html?f=23 ]
Yeah easy to say that but that is because they are the elite. They have a newton, do you? I don't! Time for Newton 2, I mean they are doing iPod sock 2 so why not Newton 2.
I didn't store recipes on it, though.
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Yeah easy to say that but that is because they are the elite. They have a newton, do you? I don't! Time for Newton 2, I mean they are doing iPod sock 2 so why not Newton 2.
I still have my Newton but I wasn't, nor am I, elite. I didn't store recipes on it, though.
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I often think this way about my smartphone: what do I need the “smart” for? Maps, messenger, banking app, taking/viewing photos, web browser, listening to audio (music, podcasts, audiobooks), taxi app, calendar/reminders. Seems so little… How old of a hardware could support my needs?
> taking/viewing photos Camera and screen quality are often what the new generation of a phone is sold on. For everything else, yeah if you're not watching videos or gaming then you probably don't need a top-end model.
Whenever I see this fact, I don't doubt it, but it reminds me of how weird and out of touch I am. The Camera is probably one of my least used phone feature. My lens got a crack across it a few years ago and I have no idea how long I went before even noticing it. It's never even occurred to me to care about how "good" my phone's cameras are. For those rare times I need to take a picture of something, my 8 year old phone camera is good enough. I really don't feel I need more pixels.
It's always so strange to learn how important that feature is to normal people.
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I still have my Newton but I wasn't, nor am I, elite. I didn't store recipes on it, though.
I would love to see a new Newton with the same spirit of innovation but current tech. Current phones are so boring. No innovation, just slow evolution.
Newton had a modem module you could plug in and third parties had written web browsers for it, it basically was the first smart phone just without the phone.
Trying to imagine that level of innovation, but starting from present day tech, is very interesting.
https://www.thealmightyguru.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Signeti...
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Hey, I store recipes on my home computer! Having a portable handheld terminal that can view the recipes makes it much more practical than it would have been in the 80s.
What recipe storing app do you use?
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I often think this way about my smartphone: what do I need the “smart” for? Maps, messenger, banking app, taking/viewing photos, web browser, listening to audio (music, podcasts, audiobooks), taxi app, calendar/reminders. Seems so little… How old of a hardware could support my needs?
> taking/viewing photos Camera and screen quality are often what the new generation of a phone is sold on. For everything else, yeah if you're not watching videos or gaming then you probably don't need a top-end model.
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Hey, I store recipes on my home computer! Having a portable handheld terminal that can view the recipes makes it much more practical than it would have been in the 80s.
What recipe storing app do you use?