this just about sums up the mobile revolution, don't you think?
thanks, Apple!
Lotf of interesting ideas dying for millions of identical slabs...
>>54627722
>thanks, Apple!
One flappy bird has been deposited to your account.
>>54627722
ONE
INFINITE
LOO
>>54627745
More like a rainbow-tinted dildo, amirite
>>54627722
Instead of having a handful of devices that function well on their own, most people now use a single device that does the same functions, but poorly.
Thanks.
>>54627722
I don't see a propane torch on the first image
>>54627722
>>54627722
Jack of all trades, master of none.
>>54627722
>PDA
replacement
>camcorder
replacement
>laptop
not replacement, but almost a substiture
>brick phone
replacement
>polaroid
not replacement, no printer, not analog quality. still a substitute, though.
>walkman
replacement. I don't think anyone seriously cares about portable physical music anymore.
>watch
not quite a replacement. not on your wrist, yet.
>pager
outright obsolete.
>>54627722
>tfw no EDC gains
>that feeling of switching to iPhone after years of Android
Few people in the world will have this pleasure
>>54627797
/thread
>>54627797
If you want things to perform at exemplary levels, there are dedicated devices that do nothing else but their discrete function. You'll just need a bag to carry it all.
>>54627976
post moar
>>54627976
>tfw no dedicated korean gf
>>54627976
Except that most people don't.
I'm fine with that, with the exception of cameras.
A local girl died in a car accident recently. They wanted a nice picture of her (shortly before she died) printed reasonably large.
All they had was smartphone photos, which had been uploaded to facebook and the originals lost.
An idiot relative volunteered me to do the printing, but I had to print out the shitty pictures given and explain to them why it was covered in jpeg artefacts.
>>54628205
iphone cameras still suck but Android ones are continuously improved. My Note 4 takes stills better than most 35mm cameras could. The only way you'd beat it would be with a DSLR. I do look forward to the day when motion blur is no longer an issue and all phones contain light field cameras.
>>54627722
Screen size and large physical keyboard are still crucial, my friends that don't know dick about tech and do all their shit with a phone so all to use my laptop or desktop to fool out a large form or anything like that
>>54628414
Any film SLR could beat it, given a decent lens (that is, not some shitty Tamron 28-200) and film that isn't bottom-shelf Kodak Gold that you find in a drugstore. Also smartphones give you one moderate-wide-angle ~28mm field of view and "zoom" by cropping.
for people who were happy with disposable 35mm cameras, smartphone cameras are fine. That's quite a few people. If you want more than that you still need a proper camera though.
>>54628205
That's more a problem of people not knowing how to archive digital files correctly. You wouldn't take a physical photo, buy small as shit prints of it and then throw away the negatives. It would have been the same outcome had they used a DSLR
>>54628754
That's now how it works. The originals likely never existed for more than a few seconds before being uploaded to FB and cleared from memory.
>>54628540
>and film that isn't bottom-shelf Kodak Gold that you find in a drugstore
You'd be surprised at how decent photos can look with some cheap ISO 200 ColorPlus. Certainly better than any smartphone when using proper lens. Granted, I'm a tad spoiled by my Konica's Hexanons.
>>54628754
>You wouldn't take a physical photo, buy small as shit prints of it and then throw away the negatives
thats how most normies used point-n-shoot 35mm cameras, actually. My mom wanted scans of an old photo album a while back. I asked her for negatives and she said she always just threw them away once she had a pack of shitty 3x5 minilab prints.
>>54627920
One schmekel has been deposited in your account
>>54628205
So you blame the smart phone for the wringer that Facebook puts photos through? But that aside, at least they had photos, and recent ones. Even with digital point and shoots, most people couldn't be assed with bringing a camera unless it was some extra special event.
My neighbor died recently. His widow handed me a 4x6 print to crop and enlarge ... I had to take a 20 year old (if not older) print, isolate the half he was in, then print it as a 8x10.
>>54628754
>>54628843
That's actually what they do now outside of dedicated photo shops. I recently got back into shooting film, and checking the drug stores where I'd usually get it developed, found out they now send the film out to process, and you don't get the negatives back.
>>54627722
>nothing on the top level will prevent you from replacing the battery
>nothing on the top panel will lock you out because you used a 3rd party replacement part
>nothing on the top panel requires a proprietary interface to transfer data
>everything on the top panel will probably still work in 50 years
>>54628843
So those people would have the same problem anyway, sounds like they're just dumb.
>>54627722
You could write your novel on that laptop very easily.
You could only write a crappy asian romance novella on that phone.
>>54627722
A gameboy should be added to the top photo.
>>54629962
everyone knows applel dislikes emulators
>>54629543
The Polaroid has a battery in the *film pack*
If that one is dead, the pack is (to the common consumer) effectively wasted.
>>54628540
>tfw have never taken a near-IR or near-UV photograph before
Cameranon, hold me.
Even if that camcorder has shitty outdated sensor and writes on a VHS, it can still manually change focus, it can zoom, has a viewfinder and since its heavy and large you'll never have to deal with shaky videos.
>>54630619
>manually change focus
Most camera apps allow you to make exposure and focus adjustments. As simple as tapping on what you want in focus.
>it can zoom,
At 1080, if not 4k, you can crop into a section of the picture and still look as good as the camcorder at SD resolution. The camcorder will always be SD.
>has a viewfinder
The smart phone has a much larger viewfinder, one you don't have to put up to your eye
>and since its heavy and large you'll never have to deal with shaky videos.
Phone's size lets you easily take it just about anywhere as long as you have a pocket, if not hang from neck or arm. Its size will also let you set it up in places the camcorder won't fit. If you're concerned about shakycam, you can always set up a rig, if even improvised, to increase its intertia.
You can also edit and publish directly from the device.
>>54627722
I don't seen what's wrong with this? The bottom does more than the top combined.
>>54627797
>>54627845
Too be fair the video camera and speakers are pretty good on most phones now. Hard to argue against that
>>54627722
>Those cameras still take better photos than a shitty smartphone camera
>That watch lasts 4 years on a single battery
>>54627722
>newton MessagePad was expandable and featured accurate stylus input for mobile productivity software and data collection
>iShit and clones do not
>video camera records high quality audio and video relative to its time based on something other than "muh megapixels"
>iShit and clones do not
>PowerBook is basically a portable Macintosh desktop capable of running full desktop software like mathematica, office, and development tools effectively
>iShit and clones are not
>the brick phone lasts more than a day on a charge
>iShit and clones do not
>Polaroid is capable of taking and immediately printing photos of semi-decent quality
>iShit and clones can do this, but only if there is a networked printer on the same network
>Walkman can play anything you can record on a tape and quickly transfer new songs
>iShit and clones do not
>Watch allows you to check time or use a stopwatch conveniently by simply looking at your wrist
>iShit and clones do not
>Pager is convenient and fast for... paging
>iShit and clones are not
>the mobile "revolution" replaced a bunch of specialized devices that were good at one thing with one device that is half-assed at a bunch of specialized things
It really does, OP.
>>54627850
>analog
>quality
>>54627722
Ive always wanted a PDA
are any of those still around? or are they all smart phones now?
>>54627850
>>54630980
Analogue doesn't mean either good or bad quality m80s.
35mm film was superior to digital photography until quite recently. Large/medium format is still best done analogue.
The CD though, easily outdid vinyl records on debut.
The quality of the format *isn't* dependent on whether it's digital or analogue at all.
>>54627722
>Someone took the time to take this photo
Macfags everyone
>>54630978
Agreed
Also pagers are stilled used because of their insane reliability. The bandwidth may be smaller, but network relaying is much faster and it uses frequencies setups know to cut though all kinds of interference. There is a reason miners and electrical line workers like them, those few fast characters save lives when it counts.
What about wallet?
Paid with ApplePay
THANKS STEVE!!!1!
>wahh i must be contrarian, must, fit, in!!
>>54627797
False, phones now take objectively better video than an early '90s camcorder
>>54627722
> perceived value to market products on
> not actual value
fuck OP, all those things alone would cost _less_ than an iPhone
why are we buying iPhones again? idgi
>>54633620
Wrong. Just the newton in the picture was selling for 950$
>>54633580
That's a pretty shitty standard to go by.
Many cheap modern video cameras take better video than a phone now anyway.
Unless you are talking about framerate though! Even the shittiest handycam from the 90s shot full 60fps (through interlacing).
>phone replaces laptop
>>54634213
Most phones can do 120-240fps now.
Keep up with the times, fucking retard.
>>54634227
for normalplebs who only used their laptop for the equivalent of what facefuck does, sure
face it mang, a lot of people don't /need/ a computer, they just make some things more convenient, a smartphone isn't the most capable type of computer, but it's still more convenient than nothing, and that's enough for a lot of people
>>54634352
I suppose, but I'd hardly call that a 'replacement', just an alternative for the knuckle draggers.
>>54634372
the OP nor the picture said it was a replacement specifically
no, it's not a replacement for all use-cases, but it is in some, enough that for many people, it can (and is) a replacement
think about how many people only had a laptop so they could view recipes or read email anywhere in their home, those people could just as easily use their phone
phones are more than powerful enough to run any kind of common application nowadays, the only disadvantages are inputs and outputs (small screen, no mouse/kb), but many tasks don't demand more than what a cellphone offers in that area either
>>54630978
I like how you add strawman-esque conditionals to 3/4s of your examples in an attempt to make them seem superior to the iPhone.
Are you really this delusional?
>>54634426
The OP picture very much implies replacement.
As I said, an alternative for the knuckle draggers.
it does all of the things!
but worse! it's great for consumer tier pleb shit, but on an individual level, if you want to record, take photos, etc., you STILL have to buy all of those things separately
>>54627797
Flagships have better screens and horsepower than laptops and take pictures and videos better than a lot of shitty point and shooters and camcorders.
I am seriously not surprised seeing PC and general consumer tech tank in sales.
>>54634460
>on an individual level
ok that made no sense - "on a enthusiast/professional level" *
>>54628205
Holy shit you suck, you can run a picture through noise removal filter in lightroom and it would smooth out a huge chunk of artifacts. Even raw DSLR look like shit without post editing, it's just the. Nature of digital photography.
>>54634518
I did run it through filters.
It ended up looking not much better.
The key to DSLR noise reduction is that each sensor typically has a profile for each ISO speed. You can run a filter which is set to the noise pattern of the sensor when filtering out noise.
If you've just got a jpeg from a phone, the filter has to try and guess what is actual data and what is noise a lot more. It doesn't have a reference to work on.
That's ignoring the fact that many phone photos are already ran through a noise reduction filter to the point of looking like a watercolour.
>>54629248
It's a lot easier to upload photos straight from the camera to facebook and then forget about them.
On a dedicated device, you are likely to at least keep a copy on the original SD card if you are super lazy. Or, like my parents whenever they call me around to do something like this, all the photos are thrown into one big folder.
It's like vertical videos. Phones don't *force* you to record like that, they just encourage it by design.
>>54634602
>watercolour
I actually prefer this look. Although after edits my photos end up looking like they're painted by brush rather than watercolour.
>>54627722
>thanks Apple
Nokia did it first.
>>54630978
>>newton MessagePad was expandable and featured accurate stylus input for mobile productivity software and data collection
>>Polaroid is capable of taking and immediately printing photos of semi-decent quality
>>Walkman can play anything you can record on a tape and quickly transfer new songs
>>Pager is convenient and fast for... paging
Are you literally fucking retarded?
>>54627722
t. Pajeet
>>54627759
"Engineer" has become a grossly overused word. A majority of them probably aren't touching the codebase.
>>54635088
But Apple did it best. Nokia was just a drop in the bucket.
>>54634213
>Many cheap modern video cameras take better video than a phone now anyway.
nah.
>>54635590
I really enjoy living in a country where "Engineer" is a formal title and you could actually get sued for calling yourself one without a degree.
>>54627722
>casio watch battery life
11 years kekkk
>iphone battery life
half a day if it doesnt explode halfway
Smartphones are dogshit at everything they do.
They are a inferior replacement for technology that the people who use them would not utilize in any serious capacity anyway.
In short it's technology for plebs.
>>54636560
Spoken like someone who hasn't used an iPhone.
Come back and post when you can afford a real phone, kid.
A jack of all trades is a master of none.
>>54636560
Smartphones are a good consumer-grade replacement for most of what they do, you're retarded if you expected more from something you can carry in your pocket.
>>54636373
Train driver?
>>54636706
>>54637278
Is this what /g/ has become?
>>54637335
I'm just being realistic, most of the people doesn't need a good quality dslr since most of the photo are taken for fb/wa and quick reminder
>>54637412
Yes, but you know very well that people don't use their smartphone cameras for that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gHeBVyqJRo
>>54637462
did you just post an apple ad to prove your point?
>>54637488
Yes I did. Because it proves my point precisely. Snap a video of something meaningless, try to find something deep or intellectual about it, and congratulations, you're the master of hipsters and normies.
And that's only one of the reasons smartphones are a cancer.
>>54637574
Yep, and they share it on fb
>>54637715
Nobody uses fb anymore
>>54634459
YOu're a knuckle dragger.
And a meme, hipster.
>>54636560
It's the sum of all parts that makes it valuable. I can take a photo of my food, edit, manipulate, and annotate it, all while listening to kpop, then shitpost it here while sitting in Starbucks and not even using their wifi. All done entirely from my phone.
Meanwhile you shot your full frame DSLR snapshit with creamy bokeh in RAW format, but you're busy raging at your computer because it updated itself to Windows 10 while you were away.
>>54634456
Care to list some so I can actually reply? I don't really see what is "strawman-esque" other than the "muh megapixels" comment.
>>54635222
PDAs were generally very expandable in the high-end and emphasized on offline productive use rather than web surfing and social media. Stylus inputs meant UIs could be more compact and feature-packed than capacitive touch devices that have to blow up their interfaces to accommodate a finger, as well as simplify it for the... less technical intended user.
The Polaroid is a stretch, but there are many users who do like to print their photos for framing or simply to have them, that is a legitimate upside for a user who prefers to do such a thing.
Dealing with iTunes and other shit software to get music onto an iShit device can be much more annoying than recording music onto a tape, of course the tape will be far less reliable.
See >>54631121 for pagers, he explained it much better than my retarded greentext.
"A jack of all trades is a master of none" isn't some concocted bullshit, there are sacrifices, whether functional or usability-wise, involved with modern mobile devices over their specialized counterparts for differing tasks. It's the cost of convenience.
>>54639803
>it updated itself to Windows 10 while you were away.
innocent bystander here. just replying to note that i lol'd.
>>54627722
heres your reply, proving your wrong
>>54627722
>6 devices that do 6 jobs properly
>1 device that does 6 jobs badly
>>54641582
>wireless network connection error on screen
>>54641582
Nice shit box, Pajeet.
>>54627722
Nope, unless its a MID or UMPC.
I have a laptop and land line. master race reportin in
>>54641582
This.
>2003
AHAHA, look at that shitty book like computer
>2013
Muh muh ipad!
>>54642673
>>54642689
what a dork
>phone even close to replacing even a shitty laptop
Let me know when your fucking input method isn't horrible, when you have true multitasking, window management, and software freedom. Oh right, never.
Enjoy being tracked, phonefucks. Dumb, dumb, dumb, DUMB.
>>54643484
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-remote-desktop/id714464092
>>54628005
feelsbad
>>54633580
No they don't. The fucking VX is still a holy grail of many filmers.
>>54643484
>implying <$800 laptops are good at multitasking and don't have shitty keyboards/trackpads and can last more than 2 hours while not giving you eye cancer from their glorious 720 screens stretched to 17 inches.
You just went full retard.
>>54643501
>has to go into a real PC to gain real functionality
>still has shit input and is a huge botnet
Wow. Kids, give up. Your toys are garbage.
Mobile cameras are still nothing against a camcorder or actual camera.
>>54643633
sure they are.
just don't buy a $10 shitphone. buy apple and you'll get quality.
>>54643877
$.89 has been deposited into your account Chad.
>>54643892
Your tears are delicious poorfag.
>>54643633
They are. My Z2 has a dream quality compared to the 720p HD camcorder we used for creating short films around 2007. The only thing they lack is optical zoom.
>>54643877
My iP6 camera is fucking garbage, just like my 4S and 4 before it.
If you think that shit compares to a nice DSLR or camcorder just because the megapixels have a big number next to them, you're deluded.
>>54644086
stop using the front (selfie) camera and start using the back (good) camera.
>>54644145
I've never used the front camera ever.
Only the back camera that needs a portable sun to not produce noisy yellow-washed garbage.
>>54627722
Total cost of devices in top picture: $42,813
Total cost of device in bottom picture: $7
>Before:
>You have full control over everything here
>After:
>shitty locked down mobile OS
>>54643501
I used an iPad with an RDP client as my mobile DD for most of my spring 2014 semester.
It was shit, the only thing that redeemed it was that it got longer battery life and was a little easier to carry than the X61 I was using for it before.
>>54643552
>I'm spoiled, autistic and bitter about it: the post
I'd put up with a shitbook and its 1366x768 panel that can actually get something productive done before I'd put up with a retina(TM) iGarbage that can't do anything worth a shit. Learn to use a computer rather than mindlessly mashing buttons and you'll find that you can make a little hardware go a long way.
>>54644197
>too stupid to take advantage of a good camera
>blames it on the device
>>54644651
The 3GS is worthless.
>>54646298
>the shill gets butthurt so he starts namecalling
Lame.
It's not my fault that your benefactors won't even let you tweak the settings, nor that tiny toy phone sensors are useless in low-light environments.
>>54630894
we are clearly talking about different things. Im talking about professional use while you talk about private use.
>>54627722
>giving Apple the credit for human civilisation in the technological age.
>not realising we would have pocket devices capable of everything they can do today even if Steve Jobs had been murdered by his biological father as an infant.
Wew laddy.
>>54644078
2007 ist 9 jahre her alter...
klar hat dein neues handy einen 1000 mal besseren sensor verbaut.
Die optik ist trotzdem shit, das mikro warscheinlich auch. Es gibt einen Grund warum profis nicht mit handys filmen.
---
2007 was 9 years ago,
your new cell obviously has a much better sensor inside.
the optics are still shit tho. mic probably too.
there is a reason why pros don't film with smarthones.
>>54650043
ah, yes. The "someone would've come up with it eventually" argument.
>>54627850
>camcorder
>replacement
How would you feel if all your television was shot on smartphones? Dedicated camcorders still have a purpose. Also, optical zoom, my camcorder has 32-550mm equivalent.
>>54650069
Lol. People steal ideas from each other, dummy. You think Apple came up with the iphone all on its own?
>>54631013
Get a Note 6 when it comes out
>>54627722
Smartphones are so fucking boring and useless. AR when?
>>54627759
>ONE INFINITE LOO
>Not ONE INFINITE POOP
You anti-apple shitposters have terrible wit
>>54650076
most people wouldn't tell the difference
just look at how popular shitty 350M releases are on torrent sites
and it's pretty obvious this should only apply to consumer-grade stuff, that might look like a fancy-ass camcorder, but early consumer camcorders looked like that
that particular looks like pic related, a VHS-C camcorder, hardly a high quality piece, even new
>>54627850
>no printer
if that counts depends on the purpose
just want the view the picture immediately? a smartphone can do that
want to share it with someone then and there? a smartphone can do that (as well as send it anywhere in the world then and there)
want to put it on your wall? you'll need a printer for that, though you'd probably prefer a larger print for that anyway
>>54636373
Yeah, me too.
We get official degrees printed by the national printing house.
>>54650066
camcoders are garbage for garbage people though
DSLRs are way better in terms of quality
