If something happened to my beloved iPhone 13 mini, I’d be at a serious conundrum. On one hand, I’d prefer to buy another off Backmarket or some other retailer, just to make sure I still have Apple’s best iPhone form factor ever. On the other hand, it’s showing its age. Apple build iOS 26 to run well on new devices, and didn’t care whether or not it would run poorly on other devices. I seriously regret “upgrading.” My iPhone has never ran worse, all because of some gaudy update with a lousy “Liquid Glass” UI stolen from Microsoft’s second worse operating system. Yes, second worst. Windows 11 users, Vista’s looking pretty good about now, isn’t it?
In the event of a tragedy, I might get an iPhone 17 Pro instead. But it’s a monstrosity. No one can use it one-handed. No one. It isn’t a handheld device. Might as well use my iPad mini as a phone! If it’s going to take two hands to use comfortably no matter what, why be ridiculous?
If I got Apple’s “pro” iPhone, I’d likely get a Phone Loop or a Pop Socket, some other such device just to hold the damn thing. I was thinking about the absurdity to that. We designed something that is unwieldy to hold and requires additional consumerism and waste just to use it. We invent our own problems to sell solutions.
The sun makes cheap electricity. Wind is everywhere. We have millions of miles of shorelines and tides. Our planet’s core is hot. Public transportation is an investment that pays for itself. We work 40 hour every week to make enough surplus profit to make billionaires of our bosses while we fight each other about the price of gas while driving larger vehicles that require more gas to run. We starve ourself of water and resources so billionaires can sell us our own labor back to us and call it “AI.”
Also, we make phones too big to hold so we need to buy special grips for them.
No wonder the aliens don’t talk to us, we must look ridiculous.