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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?

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People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Self-labelled neo-Luddites and the tech-stressed are searching for phones with fewer features. Industry experts cite precarious profit margins and a wobbly market around this need.

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People want these to avoid watching ads and being a guinea pig for their own money.

If something like Maemo was a thing today, would be different.
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  So maybe they could just…not use apps that bombard them with ads? How hard is that?

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