Flip phones are suddenly cool …

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[–]tiny-brown-mug 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Oh, yeah! I got a tiny collection of dumb phones going. They're awesome.

I've also seen Gen Z getting into portable CD players and Walkman players, and that cracks me up. In a good way. These poor kids are so overloaded with flat screens and smartphones that anything with buttons that only does one thing is relaxing for them.

[–]Gaydolf_Titler 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's a step in the right direction toward better privacy, but it's funny that they're doing it as a 'fad' rather than for the reason that smartphones are basically spies in their pockets - nefarious little digital beasts. All phones can be tracked, but a flip phone will free them from the dozens of apps these kids have installed on their smartphones (and the operating system themselves) that scrape every bit of data they can from them possible...and it isn't to help create a better user experience, I assure you.

[–]tiny-brown-mug 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh, I agree. I hate apps. I avoid them as much as I can. And the creepy, constant push to "download the app!" really cheeses me off. I can't even browse Reddit on my phone ( I have a smartphone, too) without an eventual demand to download the app if I want to keep reading.

Apps are spyware.

[–]Gaydolf_Titler 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not even so much as the fact that many apps are built as spyware as their primary function, and the thing they're advertised to do is actually the secondary function, or 'wrapper' of the data mining function (i.e. a brick-breaking game that needs access to your storage, photos, messages, contacts, location, etc.), but the platform they are released on (Apple Store, Google Play) require their own frameworks that also perform data mining. So even if you are an app developer who values user's privacy and choose to not include functions that data mine, in order to release your app to a wide audience, your app will automatically include the tracking functions of the framework you are forced to use.