• skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    About damn time. They should have never been allowed to grow so big in so many markets to become the only player. They’re literally mentally crippling a generation of youngs that now don’t know how technology works. I remember a young coworker at a technology company a while back remarking, upon finding another coworker’s Android phone, “Oh wait, this is Android? Well, we’re going to need a hacker to figure out how to use that thing,” and he sat it back down, defeated. Wat.

    https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z

    • BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      My boss was kinda giving me and another guy some shit for having Android phones (he has an iPhone). Not in a mean way, just kind of razzing us about it.

      Other dude looked at him and goes, “Sorry for being poor, I guess,” and then started laughing, haha. But yeah, I’ve had several people over the years be perplexed by anything that wasn’t an iPhone.