Re:Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seve...
by enraged_camel on Friday August 07, 2015 @09:47PM
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>>I'm not sure about that explanation. Clocks were very common on cell phones long before the iPhone came along.
But people weren't using "dumb phones" nearly to the same extent that they use smartphones today.
If you had a Nokia 3210, the only time you used the phone was for calls and text messages (and also for playing Snake, but that took up the whole screen and you couldn't see what time it was).
Re:Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seve...
by tdkl on Saturday August 08, 2015 @03:54AM
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Eh ? You took the phone out to check the time as same as you do now in the smartphone era and I remember people stopping to wear watches for the same reason.
But people weren't using "dumb phones" nearly to the same extent that they use smartphones today.
If you had a Nokia 3210, the only time you used the phone was for calls and text messages (and also for playing Snake, but that took up the whole screen and you couldn't see what time it was).