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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Antique Memes Roadshow@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Found this antique prediction from around 2012. How did it pan out?

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Found this antique prediction from around 2012. How did it pan out?

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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Antique Memes Roadshow@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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  • Bdaman@sh.itjust.works
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    I like this prediction too!

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOP
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      Incredible. We haven’t changed much, have we?

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        So civilised

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    Cute, they thought that it would only grow in one dimension while in reality it did in two.

    • LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world
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      Why I prefer this prediction:

      • BolexForSoup@kbin.social
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        How have I never seen this lol

        • LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world
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          It is a 13 year old meme!

          • Klear@sh.itjust.works
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            …but it checks out, sir!

        • Num10ck@lemmy.world
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          if you include the Vision Pro then the viewport has gotten even bigger than this

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        They couldn’t predict that he wouldn’t be around any more by 2012.

        • Hoomod@lemmy.world
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          I guess people thought “the genius Steve Jobs” wouldn’t go a homeopathic route to treat his actually treatable pancreatic cancer

          It’s so incredibly rare to have a treatable version of pancreatic cancer, normally it’s a guaranteed death sentence.

          Also he got a liver transplant because having access to a private plane meant he could be on all the lists. Only bought him like another year though.

      • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world
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        2016: iFloor
        2018: iPiazza
        2020: iField
        2022: iPrairie
        2024: iVeldt

      • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml
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        The Iboard is just a touchscreen Mac.

      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Reality is disappointing.

    • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world
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      But it also shrank in a third.

  • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.world
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    I like how at the time we hadn’t even considered the entire slab would be a screen, like the memes still have the home button at the bottom. I get that it’s a meme but still.

    We also probably assumed the headphone jack would never go away either so.

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      It was my prediction. We’ve even got ones with a screen that wraps onto the side. A screen on the back side hasn’t happened yet, though.

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        https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/xiaomis-crazy-new-2800-phone-has-display-on-the-front-sides-and-back/

        But it’s just dumb, so it hasn’t caught on.

        I hate phones with glass backsides, I’ve replaced the back of my S20 a dozen times before switching to a phone with a plastic back. Yes it looks nice (if you use it without a cover), but it breaks so easily. It’s always super thin glass, not the thick gorilla glass like the front. If you look at it wrong it cracks.

        • Fogle@lemmy.ca
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          Pixel 5 had a metal back coated with some resin thing. Best phone design in history.

          • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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            …Except the battery replacement is crazy difficult.

        • CanadaPlus
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          I mean it is kind of dumb, especially if it’s as delicate as the front. I was young and I didn’t really understand the manufacturing realities. I’m guessing phones will keep looking the same for the next bit, with a slim chance Apple’s goggle thing will actually catch on a bit.

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        Yeah we have. We even had a phone that had an e-paper display on one side for low power usage. Almost all the folding phones have a screen that is on the back when unfolded.

      • Poob@lemmy.ca
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        You could argue that folding phones have screens on the back, just not the full thing, and not always the back

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        My zFold would like a word

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    I’m not gonna do the math myself, but in terms of total screen size it’s probably pretty close to accurate.

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      I can fit 24 rows of apps ON MY DICK!

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      The iPhone Pro Max is a big boy

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    This is a really great illustration of how mere extrapolation can lead you to shitty conclusions.

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      https://xkcd.com/605/

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        Perfection.

      • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOP
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        There’s always an xkcd!

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    This is basically the slippery slope fallacy in a picture.

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      deleted by creator

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    Make it foldable and it’s pretty much exactly what happened.

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    The 10 didn’t get that far, but the current biggest phone is not much smaller. Just wider instead of taller.

    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ucl5w-bztkk/maxresdefault.jpg

    They just keep getting bigger…

    https://img1.mydrivers.com/img/20201016/f2c6001212474dc6a2910a195aa17350.jpg

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      I love my mini so much

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    Who remembers the lg chocolate or whatever it was called with like a 25:1 aspect ratio or whatever lol

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      I remember the LG Wing having an aspect ratio of fuck:you

      Someone brought one into my shop to be fixed. Sorry, bud, no. Not touching that.

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      21:9 haha

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        Good god can you imagine 25:1? Fucken pencil-shaped display

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          Okay how about this: Apple Pencil but it’s got a display on the side bang I just made Tim Apple another 6 billion dollars 💵

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    Sony Xperia

  • AlexisFR@jlai.lu
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    It didn’t.

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    This is exactly what I would do if I was stealing data legally from my users. Ignore it (except what I can make a quick buck on) and keep shoving asinine bs to them for no reward other than my fiscal bonuses.

    Apple, fuck life different.

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