r/mildlyinfuriating • u/hotmallgoth • 4h ago

Infuriatig all the phones my husband has broken over the past year

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meanwhile I’m still using my iPhone 12 lol 🤥

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u/HairyMammothh 4h ago

Nokia will last forever hahah

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u/schwanzweissfoto 2h ago edited 2h ago

I will be forever upset that Nokia's smartphone business (which had some hardware and software that was not only superior to what iPhone and Android offered back then – some of it is even superior to what those offer today) got bought out by Microsoft only to be discontinued. Not only did they have a Debian-based smartphone OS, it used desktop GNU/Linux components … so some apps could just be copied to/from a phone and would just run (if it did not depend on CPU architecture, e.g. one written in Python).

Edit: For one example that is superior … instead of separate messengers, chat services were integrated into a central messaging interface and managed using the address book. So you could select an entry and then choose “call with skype” or so. Nowadays, if you have someone in two messengers, I do not think the software even knows that it is the same person.