This just about sums up the mobile revolution, don't you think?

this just about sums up the mobile revolution, don't you think?

thanks, Apple!

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>thanks, Apple!
One flappy bird has been deposited to your account.

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More like a rainbow-tinted dildo, amirite

Instead of having a handful of devices that function well on their own, most people now use a single device that does the same functions, but poorly.

Thanks.

I don't see a propane torch on the first image

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Jack of all trades, master of none.

>PDA
replacement
>camcorder
replacement
>laptop
not replacement, but almost a substiture
>brick phone
replacement
>polaroid
not replacement, no printer, not analog quality. still a substitute, though.
>walkman
replacement. I don't think anyone seriously cares about portable physical music anymore.
>watch
not quite a replacement. not on your wrist, yet.
>pager
outright obsolete.

>tfw no EDC gains

>that feeling of switching to iPhone after years of Android

Few people in the world will have this pleasure

/thread

If you want things to perform at exemplary levels, there are dedicated devices that do nothing else but their discrete function. You'll just need a bag to carry it all.

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>tfw no dedicated korean gf

Except that most people don't.
I'm fine with that, with the exception of cameras.

A local girl died in a car accident recently. They wanted a nice picture of her (shortly before she died) printed reasonably large.
All they had was smartphone photos, which had been uploaded to facebook and the originals lost.
An idiot relative volunteered me to do the printing, but I had to print out the shitty pictures given and explain to them why it was covered in jpeg artefacts.

iphone cameras still suck but Android ones are continuously improved. My Note 4 takes stills better than most 35mm cameras could. The only way you'd beat it would be with a DSLR. I do look forward to the day when motion blur is no longer an issue and all phones contain light field cameras.

Screen size and large physical keyboard are still crucial, my friends that don't know dick about tech and do all their shit with a phone so all to use my laptop or desktop to fool out a large form or anything like that

Any film SLR could beat it, given a decent lens (that is, not some shitty Tamron 28-200) and film that isn't bottom-shelf Kodak Gold that you find in a drugstore. Also smartphones give you one moderate-wide-angle ~28mm field of view and "zoom" by cropping.

for people who were happy with disposable 35mm cameras, smartphone cameras are fine. That's quite a few people. If you want more than that you still need a proper camera though.

That's more a problem of people not knowing how to archive digital files correctly. You wouldn't take a physical photo, buy small as shit prints of it and then throw away the negatives. It would have been the same outcome had they used a DSLR

That's now how it works. The originals likely never existed for more than a few seconds before being uploaded to FB and cleared from memory.

>and film that isn't bottom-shelf Kodak Gold that you find in a drugstore
You'd be surprised at how decent photos can look with some cheap ISO 200 ColorPlus. Certainly better than any smartphone when using proper lens. Granted, I'm a tad spoiled by my Konica's Hexanons.

>You wouldn't take a physical photo, buy small as shit prints of it and then throw away the negatives
thats how most normies used point-n-shoot 35mm cameras, actually. My mom wanted scans of an old photo album a while back. I asked her for negatives and she said she always just threw them away once she had a pack of shitty 3x5 minilab prints.

One schmekel has been deposited in your account

So you blame the smart phone for the wringer that Facebook puts photos through? But that aside, at least they had photos, and recent ones. Even with digital point and shoots, most people couldn't be assed with bringing a camera unless it was some extra special event.

My neighbor died recently. His widow handed me a 4x6 print to crop and enlarge ... I had to take a 20 year old (if not older) print, isolate the half he was in, then print it as a 8x10.

That's actually what they do now outside of dedicated photo shops. I recently got back into shooting film, and checking the drug stores where I'd usually get it developed, found out they now send the film out to process, and you don't get the negatives back.

>nothing on the top level will prevent you from replacing the battery
>nothing on the top panel will lock you out because you used a 3rd party replacement part
>nothing on the top panel requires a proprietary interface to transfer data
>everything on the top panel will probably still work in 50 years

So those people would have the same problem anyway, sounds like they're just dumb.

You could write your novel on that laptop very easily.

You could only write a crappy asian romance novella on that phone.

A gameboy should be added to the top photo.

everyone knows applel dislikes emulators

The Polaroid has a battery in the *film pack*
If that one is dead, the pack is (to the common consumer) effectively wasted.

>tfw have never taken a near-IR or near-UV photograph before
Cameranon, hold me.

Even if that camcorder has shitty outdated sensor and writes on a VHS, it can still manually change focus, it can zoom, has a viewfinder and since its heavy and large you'll never have to deal with shaky videos.

>manually change focus
Most camera apps allow you to make exposure and focus adjustments. As simple as tapping on what you want in focus.

>it can zoom,
At 1080, if not 4k, you can crop into a section of the picture and still look as good as the camcorder at SD resolution. The camcorder will always be SD.

>has a viewfinder
The smart phone has a much larger viewfinder, one you don't have to put up to your eye

>and since its heavy and large you'll never have to deal with shaky videos.
Phone's size lets you easily take it just about anywhere as long as you have a pocket, if not hang from neck or arm. Its size will also let you set it up in places the camcorder won't fit. If you're concerned about shakycam, you can always set up a rig, if even improvised, to increase its intertia.

You can also edit and publish directly from the device.

I don't seen what's wrong with this? The bottom does more than the top combined.

Too be fair the video camera and speakers are pretty good on most phones now. Hard to argue against that

>Those cameras still take better photos than a shitty smartphone camera
>That watch lasts 4 years on a single battery

>newton MessagePad was expandable and featured accurate stylus input for mobile productivity software and data collection
>iShit and clones do not
>video camera records high quality audio and video relative to its time based on something other than "muh megapixels"
>iShit and clones do not
>PowerBook is basically a portable Macintosh desktop capable of running full desktop software like mathematica, office, and development tools effectively
>iShit and clones are not
>the brick phone lasts more than a day on a charge
>iShit and clones do not
>Polaroid is capable of taking and immediately printing photos of semi-decent quality
>iShit and clones can do this, but only if there is a networked printer on the same network
>Walkman can play anything you can record on a tape and quickly transfer new songs
>iShit and clones do not
>Watch allows you to check time or use a stopwatch conveniently by simply looking at your wrist
>iShit and clones do not
>Pager is convenient and fast for... paging
>iShit and clones are not

>the mobile "revolution" replaced a bunch of specialized devices that were good at one thing with one device that is half-assed at a bunch of specialized things
It really does, OP.

>analog
>quality

Ive always wanted a PDA
are any of those still around? or are they all smart phones now?

Analogue doesn't mean either good or bad quality m80s.

35mm film was superior to digital photography until quite recently. Large/medium format is still best done analogue.
The CD though, easily outdid vinyl records on debut.

The quality of the format *isn't* dependent on whether it's digital or analogue at all.

>Someone took the time to take this photo
Macfags everyone

Agreed

Also pagers are stilled used because of their insane reliability. The bandwidth may be smaller, but network relaying is much faster and it uses frequencies setups know to cut though all kinds of interference. There is a reason miners and electrical line workers like them, those few fast characters save lives when it counts.

What about wallet?

Paid with ApplePay

THANKS STEVE!!!1!

>wahh i must be contrarian, must, fit, in!!

False, phones now take objectively better video than an early '90s camcorder

> perceived value to market products on
> not actual value

fuck OP, all those things alone would cost _less_ than an iPhone

why are we buying iPhones again? idgi

Wrong. Just the newton in the picture was selling for 950$

That's a pretty shitty standard to go by.
Many cheap modern video cameras take better video than a phone now anyway.

Unless you are talking about framerate though! Even the shittiest handycam from the 90s shot full 60fps (through interlacing).

>phone replaces laptop

Most phones can do 120-240fps now.
Keep up with the times, fucking retard.

for normalplebs who only used their laptop for the equivalent of what facefuck does, sure

face it mang, a lot of people don't /need/ a computer, they just make some things more convenient, a smartphone isn't the most capable type of computer, but it's still more convenient than nothing, and that's enough for a lot of people

I suppose, but I'd hardly call that a 'replacement', just an alternative for the knuckle draggers.

the OP nor the picture said it was a replacement specifically

no, it's not a replacement for all use-cases, but it is in some, enough that for many people, it can (and is) a replacement

think about how many people only had a laptop so they could view recipes or read email anywhere in their home, those people could just as easily use their phone
phones are more than powerful enough to run any kind of common application nowadays, the only disadvantages are inputs and outputs (small screen, no mouse/kb), but many tasks don't demand more than what a cellphone offers in that area either

I like how you add strawman-esque conditionals to 3/4s of your examples in an attempt to make them seem superior to the iPhone.

Are you really this delusional?

The OP picture very much implies replacement.

As I said, an alternative for the knuckle draggers.

it does all of the things!

but worse! it's great for consumer tier pleb shit, but on an individual level, if you want to record, take photos, etc., you STILL have to buy all of those things separately

Flagships have better screens and horsepower than laptops and take pictures and videos better than a lot of shitty point and shooters and camcorders.

I am seriously not surprised seeing PC and general consumer tech tank in sales.

>on an individual level

ok that made no sense - "on a enthusiast/professional level" *

Holy shit you suck, you can run a picture through noise removal filter in lightroom and it would smooth out a huge chunk of artifacts. Even raw DSLR look like shit without post editing, it's just the. Nature of digital photography.

I did run it through filters.
It ended up looking not much better.

The key to DSLR noise reduction is that each sensor typically has a profile for each ISO speed. You can run a filter which is set to the noise pattern of the sensor when filtering out noise.
If you've just got a jpeg from a phone, the filter has to try and guess what is actual data and what is noise a lot more. It doesn't have a reference to work on.
That's ignoring the fact that many phone photos are already ran through a noise reduction filter to the point of looking like a watercolour.

It's a lot easier to upload photos straight from the camera to facebook and then forget about them.
On a dedicated device, you are likely to at least keep a copy on the original SD card if you are super lazy. Or, like my parents whenever they call me around to do something like this, all the photos are thrown into one big folder.
It's like vertical videos. Phones don't *force* you to record like that, they just encourage it by design.

>watercolour

I actually prefer this look. Although after edits my photos end up looking like they're painted by brush rather than watercolour.

>thanks Apple
Nokia did it first.

>>newton MessagePad was expandable and featured accurate stylus input for mobile productivity software and data collection
>>Polaroid is capable of taking and immediately printing photos of semi-decent quality
>>Walkman can play anything you can record on a tape and quickly transfer new songs
>>Pager is convenient and fast for... paging

Are you literally fucking retarded?

t. Pajeet

"Engineer" has become a grossly overused word. A majority of them probably aren't touching the codebase.

But Apple did it best. Nokia was just a drop in the bucket.

>Many cheap modern video cameras take better video than a phone now anyway.
nah.

I really enjoy living in a country where "Engineer" is a formal title and you could actually get sued for calling yourself one without a degree.

>casio watch battery life
11 years kekkk
>iphone battery life
half a day if it doesnt explode halfway

Smartphones are dogshit at everything they do.
They are a inferior replacement for technology that the people who use them would not utilize in any serious capacity anyway.
In short it's technology for plebs.

Spoken like someone who hasn't used an iPhone.

Come back and post when you can afford a real phone, kid.

A jack of all trades is a master of none.

Smartphones are a good consumer-grade replacement for most of what they do, you're retarded if you expected more from something you can carry in your pocket.

Train driver?

Is this what Sup Forums has become?

I'm just being realistic, most of the people doesn't need a good quality dslr since most of the photo are taken for fb/wa and quick reminder

Yes, but you know very well that people don't use their smartphone cameras for that.

youtube.com/watch?v=2gHeBVyqJRo

did you just post an apple ad to prove your point?

Yes I did. Because it proves my point precisely. Snap a video of something meaningless, try to find something deep or intellectual about it, and congratulations, you're the master of hipsters and normies.
And that's only one of the reasons smartphones are a cancer.

Yep, and they share it on fb

Nobody uses fb anymore

YOu're a knuckle dragger.
And a meme, hipster.

It's the sum of all parts that makes it valuable. I can take a photo of my food, edit, manipulate, and annotate it, all while listening to kpop, then shitpost it here while sitting in Starbucks and not even using their wifi. All done entirely from my phone.

Meanwhile you shot your full frame DSLR snapshit with creamy bokeh in RAW format, but you're busy raging at your computer because it updated itself to Windows 10 while you were away.

Care to list some so I can actually reply? I don't really see what is "strawman-esque" other than the "muh megapixels" comment.

PDAs were generally very expandable in the high-end and emphasized on offline productive use rather than web surfing and social media. Stylus inputs meant UIs could be more compact and feature-packed than capacitive touch devices that have to blow up their interfaces to accommodate a finger, as well as simplify it for the... less technical intended user.

The Polaroid is a stretch, but there are many users who do like to print their photos for framing or simply to have them, that is a legitimate upside for a user who prefers to do such a thing.

Dealing with iTunes and other shit software to get music onto an iShit device can be much more annoying than recording music onto a tape, of course the tape will be far less reliable.

See for pagers, he explained it much better than my retarded greentext.

"A jack of all trades is a master of none" isn't some concocted bullshit, there are sacrifices, whether functional or usability-wise, involved with modern mobile devices over their specialized counterparts for differing tasks. It's the cost of convenience.

>it updated itself to Windows 10 while you were away.

innocent bystander here. just replying to note that i lol'd.

heres your reply, proving your wrong

>6 devices that do 6 jobs properly
>1 device that does 6 jobs badly

>wireless network connection error on screen

Nice shit box, Pajeet.

Nope, unless its a MID or UMPC.

I have a laptop and land line. master race reportin in

This.

>2003
AHAHA, look at that shitty book like computer

>2013
Muh muh ipad!

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what a dork

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>phone even close to replacing even a shitty laptop
Let me know when your fucking input method isn't horrible, when you have true multitasking, window management, and software freedom. Oh right, never.

Enjoy being tracked, phonefucks. Dumb, dumb, dumb, DUMB.