social topic

arkarian

2015-05-29 08:05:30 pm

red chamber dream

mobile banking through sms made a huge impact on business in like africa and rural china and whatnot

Poision Envy

2015-05-29 08:05:51 pm

Club 27 Goals

Makes sense really, considering many phones are starting to have all the capabilities of a laptop with much less hassle, and since phones are a standard requirement, you may as well get one that is powerful and will last you.

arkarian

2015-05-29 08:05:51 pm

red chamber dream

and now with android one and all the other cheap smartphone initiatives i think it's really exciting

DJGrenola

2015-05-29 08:05:57 pm

yeah I can believe it, I mean honestly it's starting to get that way in the west as well

arkarian

2015-05-29 08:06:21 pm

red chamber dream

totally

it's become clear i think that desktops are not a good solution for the vast majority of people

Poision Envy

2015-05-29 08:06:32 pm

Club 27 Goals

hell, with my note 4 I can bluetooth a mouse and keyboard or even get a 2-port USB adapter and control it like a desktop

arkarian

2015-05-29 08:06:36 pm

red chamber dream

i love mine but man, they're essentially useless to most people who have smartphones

Poision Envy

2015-05-29 08:07:21 pm

Club 27 Goals

it's weird how desktops are going to fall back into a thing that only businesses need or use, average people really don't need them anymore to get connected or to use for entertainment

DJGrenola

2015-05-29 08:07:23 pm

I'm not sure I'm entirely happy about it, earlier today I watched a row of zombies cycling down the road staring at their phones

arkarian

2015-05-29 08:07:43 pm

red chamber dream

i know what you mean, but personally i don't mind because i don't like talking to people anyway

DJGrenola

2015-05-29 08:07:50 pm

poision yeah but that's kind of how they always were, there was only a brief period of about 10 years or so where casuals bought PCs for internet access

arkarian

2015-05-29 08:07:58 pm

red chamber dream

but yeah it is depressing from an observer's point of view

Poision Envy

2015-05-29 08:08:09 pm

Club 27 Goals

well I mean, there were always newspapers and books before phones too...

arkarian

2015-05-29 08:08:37 pm

red chamber dream

that's true heh, it's not like in the 60s everyone was talking to each other on the subway

they all had their noses buried in papers or books

arkarian

2015-05-29 08:08:59 pm

red chamber dream

but phones are definitely more convenient so you see that more often

arkarian

2015-05-29 08:09:15 pm

red chamber dream

i wonder if smartwatches and other wearables will catch on any time soon

Poision Envy

2015-05-29 08:10:01 pm

Club 27 Goals

I can definitely see how it could be bad if all kids and stuff do on their phone is talk to each other, but I think a lot of them do actually read books on their phones as well.

Hell, my girlfriend's friends in early highschool surprise me with how they actually read harry potter and shit on their phones to pass time. I'm sure there's a lot out there that just are snapchatting their yolos, but popular kids will always be dumb like that

arkarian

2015-05-29 08:10:28 pm

red chamber dream

i think it depends on the person

i mean for me if i couldn't comunicate to people via internet i'd be fucked hard

DJGrenola

2015-05-29 08:10:32 pm

yeah I've been wondering that, I dunno, it's not a huge distinction really though, the point is you can take it with you and look at it any time, it's still essentially just the same thing as a phone

arkarian

2015-05-29 08:10:42 pm

red chamber dream

impossible for me to have an unbiased opinion i guess, but i love what technology is doing for us

arkarian

2015-05-29 08:11:30 pm

red chamber dream

the idea with smartwatches is you don't have to take your phone out and spend so much time looking at it, but i dunno if that will be reason enough for people to buy into them

phones are pretty damn convenient already

DJGrenola

2015-05-29 08:11:57 pm

heh I'm starting to hate it, which is bizarre since I've always loved computers but I really don't like their effect on society now

Poision Envy

2015-05-29 08:12:16 pm

Club 27 Goals

well I mean if you hate society as a whole, batman

arkarian

2015-05-29 08:12:31 pm

red chamber dream

i don't care about the people getting lost in tech, what i care about is companies fucking people over with technology

Poision Envy

2015-05-29 08:12:39 pm

Club 27 Goals

kill the sheeple

free their minds

hack their phones, hack the world