Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"

Re:Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were ... by zerocrates on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:00PM (#27227970)

The detachable faceplate for anti-theft reasons was (is?) a very common feature for aftermarket radios/head-units/whatever in the US. Built-in ones have just increasingly moved to not being a discrete, accessible, interchangeable component, another way around.

I still remember when my dad had bought an aftermarket tape-deck-only radio, a Sony I believe, well into the era of the ubiquitous CD player (he just wanted a working tape deck). Someone broke into the car at some point and stole it and I can only assume they were very disappointed after looking closer.

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Re:Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were ... by toyg on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:55AM (#27231232)

Italy, mid-80s, early summer. My primary school organises a day trip to a city nearby. During the trip, a classmate from a “difficult” background ends up getting slightly hurt, banging his head against a wall. When we eventually get back to our hometown, his parents don’t come to pick him up, and somehow that means everyone else has to wait on the bus. Eventually, his dad shows up, drunk and high (on heroin, we’ll found out later) with a car radio under his arm - and everybody knows he doesn’t have a car, he’s literally just stolen it…

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Re:Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were ... by dzolob on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:48PM (#27229650)

To this day I’d be afraid to park my car out in the open with that piece of hardware attached to it.

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