Apps were still kinda new at the time and social media was shit hot. iPhones were still premium products and most people didn’t have one.

I think a lot of people don’t realise that when the iPhone first came out it didn’t have apps. They eventually released an upgrade so that you could pin webpages to the homepage. I remember Apple arguing that web stuff was so good now you didn’t need apps.

From what I recall around that time the Kin never really generated that much interest. It wasn’t being aimed as a product to replace the iPhone and was targeted at the kind of people who nowadays would sit on their phone and scroll TikTok. There was a lot of change in those days; social media was still pretty new, useful internet in your phone was pretty new (it’d been around for years but it wasn’t so expensive to this point nobody had used it, iPhone made constant internet connections a thing) touch screens were still new and sexy, and more I forget about. The idea that your phone was this little mobile computer that you carried around wasn’t really there yet and they were still mostly for communicating.

My sister-in-law let her 10 year old daughter play it with zero supervision. When we found out we told her she should be watching what her daughter’s doing so she went in to check and found the kid talking to some grown man from Azerbaijan.

It’s just a waste of time now, I don’t even bother. Nothing big good gets a serious discount, it’s just crap I didn’t want in the first place that gets out on sale. Just before Christmas Day is the best time to get a deal, that’s the only time of year shops are really trying to get rid of stuff they’ve bought too much of.

All the tools already exist. They just need to make it so easy to use them the parents don’t have an excuse not to. My sister-in-law thinks all this online age verification stuff is a good idea then let’s her kids use a grown up YouTube account because she can’t be bothered arguing with them. My kid can’t even use her junior one unless I put the PIN code in for her (which I never do).

I think this is pretty normal as you grow up. You get kind of bored of playing games that use the same gameplay mechanisms and you just look for a change. Even if the mechanisms in these indie games aren’t as good, just being different makes the game more interesting.

Nowadays I’d much rather play a short indie games that a big budget game.

They don’t need to court developers, they need to court consumers. The games will be sold wherever people are buying.

Don’t know. No problems for me (UK).

I don’t really understand all the hate for 11. I use it at work and it’s fine. I prefer 10 and 7 but 11 doesn’t rile me up or anything (except the forced online account thing).

I’m not sure how I feel about this game. Seems like a less ambitious NMS.

This is pretty standard in a lot of countries to be honest, but it won’t do anything to encourage more tourists to visit. I’ve never paid to visit a national park in my life.

What a load of bullshit. Maybe I misread it but it says that German companies would be 101% more productive if they bought newer laptops and phones (American ones no doubt). They also claim that businesses are trying to use old hardware for modern workloads. Apparently a six year old laptop can’t handle Outlook and Word.

I so nearly didn’t bother watching it because I’m so sick of all the superhero movies. I think it was the first one I’ve enjoyed in years.

Exactly. If the right wingers started posting pictures of the families of left wingers we’d be calling them out for it.

I feel like Amazon actually try to make decent stuff, they just don’t do a very good job of it.

I’m all for posting pictures of him but don’t post his family.

I watched the whole show. I didn’t notice any glaring issues. It’s confusing but it’s supposed to be.

I have a Samsung smart TV and apart from suggesting I watch stuff on their own Samsung channel thing I don’t think it shows me any adverts. Maybe it’s because I’m not in the US?

ChatGPT says it’s just a guy who’s full of himself. I’m inclined to believe it’s correct on this.

It can never be too big, but it’s a problem if it’s a big city with nothing to do (Cyberpunk).

Sounds kinda like MS could tell the account wasn’t being used anymore and decided to kill it off rather than leave it to get hacked again. Still, it’s scary to think that MA might delete my account and I’d lose all my online backups. My daily photos are backed up on there.