Apple’s iPhone may be 15-years-old, but this 20-year-old smartphone was way better.

This year Apple both celebrated the 15 year anniversary of their first iPhone and announced the discontinuation of their last remaining iPod product; something that was first launched 20 years ago back in 2002. What’s interesting to me is how far ahead of Apple, actual smartphones were back 20 years ago. Yeah, Apple got a huge amount of press for their first iPhone (which wasn’t even really a smartphone)… and they also got a huge …

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The Messaging Mess: Why it’s stupid to use non-standard electronic messaging protocols

“Too Long Didn’t Read” Summary: Managing too many messaging apps can cause cognitive overload and contribute to cognitive decline or burn-out. It’s smarter to focus on the one publicly democratic system that works with everything everywhere there’s internet, is completely open for you to control/customize on your own within the largest messaging ecosystem on the planet, and is already built into 99% of the electronic devices in use by 100% of the humans on the …

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