Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for August 29, 2020
August 28, 2020
August 30, 2020
Transcript:
Fritz: Bixby, you can't use this monstrosity. Bixby: What's wrong with it? Fritz: It's ancient! A dinosaur! A technological relic! I mean, do they even make for it anymore? Bixby: Batteries? This thing runs on gas.
whahoppened over 4 years ago
Hmm…Do you have the gas to run it?
Nyckname over 4 years ago
Will it even work on the system? I remember when they shut down the first generation mobile network, because there simply weren’t enough of the early phones still in use to make it worth maintaining.
Michael G. over 4 years ago
Don’t they all?
Plods with ...™ over 4 years ago
Methane?
AndrewSihler over 4 years ago
The first cell phones, Motorola I think, were every bit that big, cost $4,000 in 1983 (or a little less than a thousand dollars a pound), the equivalent of $10,000 in 2020 money. And they didn’t work very well. I gather there was a brisk business in fake (dummy) Motorolas, for driving around with, pretending to be rich.