Younger me imagined that pocket computers would be real soon. Being able to type on a full keyboard (instead of T9) and have wireless Internet to access web pages as well as servers via SSH. Robust, extendable machines one could carry anywhere and use in many ways where carrying a desktop PC made no sense.
2 decades later, I'm holding a fragile glass nugget that does everything worse, can't be programmed from the device itself, keeps getting obsolete, can't be fixed easily and spies on me
@harshad Seems like I've been living your younger self's dream my whole life; first with Neo Freerunner, then Nokia N900 and now Librem 5 😄
I don't understand why people still call Android or iOS phones "smartphones". The tech's baseline has moved forward (even basic "feature phones" do stuff like Web browsing these days after all), but in its essence this market segment is more similar to old cameraphones rather than PDAs.
@dos awesome! The devices you mention were way out of my budget then, few like those exist today.