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I sort of feel like this, but chalk it up to me getting old and curmudgeonly. You kids with your fancy three cameras and gamey movie thingy, get off my lawn. Back in my day we had a phone with a browser and email and Netflix and were happy about it.


I browsed the responses to the parent comment looking to see if anyone had presented this angle.

The first iPhone at "everyone had"[1] came out a little over 11 years ago.

I'd hazard a guess most people who were in their ~mid 20's back in 2008 is now in their ~mid 30's, and have probably lost a lot interest in "new and shiny thing".

I'm swiftly approaching 40, and what gets me excited has changed dramatically in the past decade.

We'll see how long the line up is on release day, that'll give as an indicator of how out of touch us old folk are.

1. iPhone 3G available in 22 countries for as compared the original iPhone available in only 7 countries, according to the Wikipedia articles for each




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