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I don’t necessarily disagree, but this reads a bit like some of the comments on those old Slashdot threads clowning on the first smartphones.
‘these things will fail, I already have a camera, a cellphone, and an mp3 player, why would anyone want them all in one device?’
Heh...these days I kinda long for devices for for specific purposes again 😅 and I'm a software engineer.
Exactly my first thought.
Hope it doesn’t turn out the same way this time around
You'd rather have a camera cell phone and mp3 player than a smartphone?
No.
Doesn’t make me any less apprehensive about meta putting cameras and microphones on everybody’s face.