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Re:Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, an... by scarface74 on Saturday June 27, 2020 @08:37AM (#23661447)
Perfect as long as you didn’t care about third party apps - which were very much a thing by 2009 when the Zune HD came out.
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Re:Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, an... by rapind on Saturday June 27, 2020 @11:12AM (#23662329)
It might be a generational thing but I couldn't care less about third party apps.

All I use: email, browser, maps, phone, txt, calendar, camera (non essential for me).

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Re:Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, an... by scarface74 on Saturday June 27, 2020 @11:40AM (#23662500)
No it’s not a generational thing - it’s you. That’s like the old Slashdot meme - “I haven’t owned a TV in 10 years Do people still watch TV?”. Seeing that my first computer was an Apple //e in 86, I’m definitely not a young buck.
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Re:Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, an... by nogabebop23 on Saturday June 27, 2020 @12:28PM (#23662756)
it's not just him, there is a sizeable contingent of people who focus on just these apps for all their uses, and I think it would be much bigger if mobile didn't promote separate apps for everything.
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Re:Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, an... by jjeaff on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:18PM (#23786396)
Our customer base skews older and you wouldn't believe how many customer service tickets we field where they don't know what their apple account password is because they have literally never installed an app on their phone before. And these are people with brand new, most recent model iPhones that get a new one every few years.
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