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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 04/09/2025

"Can the iPhone do that yet?" Back in 2008, Stephen Fry published a list of things that he wished the iPhone could do. Has the future caught up? shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09...

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Can the iPhone do that yet?

While farting around online, I stumbled across this 2008 Time Capsule from Stephen Fry. In it, he discusses the state of mobile phones - diving into the problems with BlackBerry's and Apple's latest o...

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 04/09/2025

My instant hot take reading that is that Steve Jobs hiding the file system in iOS did more damage to the intellectual capacity of the next generation as my generation got huffing lead fumes from cars

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 04/09/2025

I appreciate you wrote this a couple of years ago, but Apple has finally seen the light and ships iPhones with USB-C. I'm not sure what random gubbins you can get away with plugging in, but I use a generic USB-C to 3.5mm jack with my iPad.

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Banda Bassotti @orpach.neocities.org · 04/09/2026

Facetime initially only worked on wifi too, since AT&T threatened to kick devices off the network if they allowed it on cellular. Jailbroken phones could be made to support it.

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