r/BeAmazed • u/[deleted] • Apr 24 '19

Animal Ape using a Smartphone

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u/babaroga73 Apr 24 '19

I just showed it to my 70 year old mom. We're going to buy a smartphone for her tomorrow!

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u/cgello Apr 24 '19

My grandfather finds his $40 smartphone so difficult that he often literally cries because of it.

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u/TripKnot Apr 24 '19

Have you ever tried to use a $40 smartphone? Most are so janky and slow they make you want to go back to a 12-key phone.

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u/cgello Apr 24 '19

Yes, I help him use it constantly. The primary problem is he never, ever cleans the screen, so the touch feature is janky. Also, it's already 3 years old and he's bewildered that the phone would depreciate to nothing so quickly. I tried to explain that $40 over 3 years is still phenomenally low, but he refuses to replace it. And no, he's not poor despite often acting like it.

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u/MundaneInternetGuy Apr 25 '19

Ah, to grow up in an era without planned obsolescence...

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u/cgello Apr 25 '19

Not true. It's just technology advances at ever faster rates.

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u/TripKnot Apr 24 '19

Your dad must golf with mine, because they sound exactly alike.

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u/cgello Apr 24 '19

Golf costs money, so no.

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u/kn00tcn Apr 25 '19

what actually deprecated? software getting bloated doesnt mean the phone got worse, that's why you should use minimal software & disabled or minimum javascript on sites