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Hands On With The Hidizs AP30 Music Boy; A Game Boy-Inspired Music Player With Audiophile Ambitions (gardinerbryant.com)
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[–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Tbh, we rely too much on smart phones, even though it's really cool to have a single device that does all these things, I think it was overall bad for society. Now the releasers of the software for these devices basically monopolize how so many things are distributed and what content they can have.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago*

    The devices themselves aren't the issue (as it is with most tools), but the environment they exist in leads to societally toxic outcomes.

    The existence of smartphones does not imply the lived reality of tracking, privacy violations, ads ads ads, monopoly-like software distribution and shutting out people for not having a smartphone from important services.

    The latter is a consequence of unchecked capitalism and authoritarianism - it's a policy issue.

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