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I don't like computers judging me. Do the job, don't get in the way. I once had a feature phone where the calendar greeted me with:
Today
Your calendar is quite empty! Would you like to add an event?
No, clanker, I don't have anything here today because you can only remember 30 events and have been replaced with paper. Shut up and show me the what day of the week the 25ᵗʰ is.
What calendar app can only hold 30 events?
"Feature Phone" suggests that this was from the late 1900s, or early 2000. Storage limits at the time were impractical.
Around 2010 but cheap. I still use it though, the browser built for 2G has very low data usage that goes well with my free 1 MB/day plan (mobile data is expensive in my country). The most annoyingly limiting factor right now is SMS memory (around 50 and just 1 draft that gets lost if it gets full), so I got in the habit of deleting every 2FA code etc. as soon as I use it.
By the way, Nokia 3410 (2001) had like 1 MB of user flash, but still only about 30 events and 100 messages because the "partitions" were fixed, and 20 Java apps (up to 50 kB each) was somehow more important than 10 000 events and 5000 messages. Most users would welcome the latter of course (plus a search feature, it gets tedious with the buttons if you have 100 and only see the sender and ✉️/📂/📨 icon in the list).
That's definitely fair then.
Kids these days will never endure having to install a video game using 6+ floppy disk, cd, etc. The good ole days (of actually owning the games you buy... DRM, fuck you)
*taps location button*
"TURNING OFF THE LOCATION WILL DEGRADE YOUR LOCATION ACCURACY ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS? YES / NO"