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Looking back at my old phone from 2015 made me rethink the future
I found my old phone in a drawer, a Samsung Galaxy S6, and it hit me how much we've already changed. We went from needing a map, a camera, and a music player in our pockets to just one device that does it all. I used to think tech would just get faster, but now I see it's more about everything blending together. Do you think we'll look back at our separate apps and accounts in 10 years and feel the same way?
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adams.uma2mo agoMost Upvoted
Remember when we had separate MP3 players? Yeah, I bet apps will be the next thing to fade into the background. Everything will just talk to each other without us having to open ten different things. It's gonna feel weird looking back at having to log into everything separately.
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john_fisher3d ago
harper914 mentioned the smartwatch pulling info without asking, which is cool but also kinda creepy to me lol. I get the whole blending thing and having fewer icons to tap, but I feel like we are gonna lose something when everything just happens in the background. Like, having separate apps forces you to actually choose what you want to do instead of letting some algorithm decide for you. I dunno, maybe I'm old school but I like the ritual of opening my music app or my map app, it feels more intentional.
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harper9142mo ago
Totally get that. Had the same feeling when I plugged in my old iPod. It felt like a brick. You're right, it's all just blending into one stream now. I can already see it with my smartwatch pulling info from everywhere without me asking. In ten years, having to tap separate app icons will seem as old-school as carrying a flip phone and a digital camera.
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