The End Of The Smartphone Is Near

Watching this with 5% battery. Yes the end is indeed near.

Not being able to sell a new thousand dollar chunk of plastic and metal to everyone every three years would truly be disastrous. Let’s hope they get it sorted out!

It still terrifies me having an AI on all the time under control of a huge multinational corporation with zero oversight listening in on my conversations and recording my privacy. I turn off the digital assistant features for that reason, and Alexa is never allowed in my house. I just don’t trust these companies.

switched from an iPhone to a old school flip phone.. no feeds to scroll. just shitty text messaging and phone calls .. life never been better!

Three years ago, I signed up as a beta tester for a major company's super-advanced smart phone, which was indeed the transparent phone prophesied in so many TV shows. I got it out of the box, and was really wowed by it for several hours. Then I put it down to go get something to eat. I haven't been able to find it since....

Great episode Joe.

We've hit the stage where the smartphone becomes an appliance. The look of a refrigerator, microwave, toaster has varied over the years but for the past 40 years they've essentially looked and run the same. That doesn't mean smartphones are going away, just that it's kinda silly to release a new model every year (technically appliance makers like samsung and LG do the same, but even then the year-to-year changes are minimal).

Honestly I think these devices are a threat, the only reason I bought a smartphone a couple years ago was because I felt forced into doing so by things like 2 factor authentication, being able to pay for a car parking space, banks requiring you to have a smartphone for "security" There are all manner of things requiring the use of a smartphone these days that you just don't notice when you actually have one. The tech industry and government has shown over and over they can't be trusted with your data which is why I do not like being coerced into using these devices. Rant Over.

SciFi makes hand held devices transparent for story telling reasons. It widens possible camera angles for a given shot of an actor while including what they are looking at. I have strong doubts that transparent screens will ever be the mainstream save for use in smart glasses.

My thing with the transparent phone and foldable phones was ... like ... why ... what problem are they solving to be the next big thing.

Just because a product has matured doesn’t mean it’s getting replaced. Literally: refrigerator, microwave, cars, etc.

In the early 1980s we bought a Vector Graphic computer for my husband’s business. I had to learn BASIC so I could debug the software we bought since nothing was available to play as written. About the same time, my brother who was working on a master’s degree in computer science got an Apple IIe. You need this context to understand how hard it was to get my head around the concept of cyberspace in William Gibson’s “Neuromancer” which came out around the same time. At 73, this background combined with a lifelong love for science fiction keeps me looking ahead to where technology could go in the future. Thanks for a fascinating episode. Note: I’m visually “limited” so not all that interested in what happens on the screen but being able to listen to audio content through my phone is a life changer.

I actually feel that maybe phones are somehow the preferred design. I maybe wrong but I don't think they're going away anytime soon.

I started studying computer science in Germany in 2006. In one of our projects we created a futuristic prototype how someone can order food with an app on their phone... The average computer science student could already see very well where things were going. The pushback was extreme though. Everyone was like "But no one would want to use this. You actually want to talk with the person on the checkout"

Millions of us are tired of being manipulated, our opinions censored, our options narrowed. Time to cancel the cancellers-

One of my favorite odd thoughts about smartphones is that they are nearly the same dimensions as the daily-use "notepad" clay tablets of Sumer. We are not the first human society to walk around all day staring at our palms.

My mom worked for Motorola in the 60's, processing microchips. One day, on her lunch break, she and her coworkers asked their manager exactly what they were making and why? He asked them to imagine being able to carry your phone with you anywhere in the world and calling anyone you want at any time. The response was "pfft" and lots of laughter. Move forward to early 80's. My mom purchased our first home desktop and when affordable our cellular phones.

Thing is, I 100% don't want a lapel pin that sits there and observes my surroundings and tells me to eat a candy bar. I also don't want to have to talk to my phone to get it to do stuff. Can you imagine how irritating being in a room full of people trying to text with those stupid things would be?

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I honestly really miss my old Sidekicks, Treos, and Pocket PCs. They were plenty "smart" enough while still being minimally intrusive to your life. Though I have to say the HTC HD2 was my favorite phone of all time, I wish I could still use it today but 3G was shut down a few years back and the old HTC Sense software no longer connects to any servers :( 2005 to about 2015 were the most exciting years for smartphones IMO. That's when your upgrades actually felt like real upgrades instead of the same phone with a slightly faster chip and slightly better camera. I really don't think AR/VR will ever replace smartphones, at least I hope and pray it doesn't. If it does then I will go back to a flip phone or just opt out of mobile tech entirely. I will never wear a headset or glasses, and the last thing I want is more AI and more immersion, monitoring, and tracking. It's already far too much, and you can be absolutely certain they'll inject AR/VR with as much advertising and data collection as possible. The beauty of my existing smartphone is I still get to choose when I want to use it. I can silence it or turn it off when I don't want to be bothered. I have ZERO desire for an always-on device interrupting me when it thinks I need to eat or displaying every notification in my field of vision. My sincere hope is that the "peaking" of smartphones will make us realize that maybe we don't need so much technology all the time.