30 years ago today, the first text message was sent

[Bassbob]

I sense disenchantment with Apple...

Nah, I actually like iPhones. Well, it's the only thing I've ever had. My wife is an Apple programmer. This place is lousy with Mac books and imacs and iphones. I also accidentally ran over my personal iPhone with a trailer awhile back. I couldn't find it so I called it with my work phone. It rang. It was under one of the wheels of my float, which I had just pulled a trackhoe on. I pulled the trailer forward enough to get the phone and it was smashed. Tried calling it again just to see and nothing doing. It was dead. It used it's last gasp of life to call out for help. My plan was to just go to the much hated WalMart and buy a $40 Android. The wife wasn't having it. She whipped out some old iPhone she had in a drawer and I'm using that now.

I do however NOT go out and buy the latest iterations. Until 2 years ago I still had an iPhone 3. Couldn't even get on the internet with it. My daughter usually gets a new phone every year or two and I buy her old ones. Right now I have an iPhone 6.

 

[Old_Me]

He sounds very wise indeed. I'll be in the kitchen or something while my wife is in one of the other rooms and the phone, which is on the table next to me, starts ringing. After about 30 rings she comes in and gets it and gives me the evil eye because I just ignore it.

I got into a huge fight with my supervisor at work about a month ago about my ( work) phone. When I am out of the truck working I leave my phone in the truck. He was trying to call me. After me not answering the phone he started calling my laborer's phone. So when I finished whatever I was doing I went to the truck and called him and asked him what was so damn important that I needed to quit pulling this service in to talk to him. He went off on me, telling me I need to have my phone on me at all times, blah, blah, blah. I told him to go F himself and hung up on him. And what he was calling me about wasn't important. Now I carry my phone on me at all times. It's all beat up and covered in mud. A $1000 iPhone. I accidentally ran over it with my trackhoe a few weeks ago so now I have a brand new $1200 iPhone to trash. Whatever morons.

about the wife and the evil eye....i know that all too well, when i don't answer the phone.

at a former employer, i had shut off the company phone, told them the battery died...i had to walk the carpet with the NJ supervisor, as he said, it was turned off not dead..

"oh" i said.......

 

[HayesGreener]

Sign on wall of Porta Potty: "Remove keys, wallet, and phone from pockets".

 

[KillerFord1977]

Nah, I actually like iPhones. Well, it's the only thing I've ever had. My wife is an Apple programmer. This place is lousy with Mac books and imacs and iphones. I also accidentally ran over my personal iPhone with a trailer awhile back. I couldn't find it so I called it with my work phone. It rang. It was under one of the wheels of my float, which I had just pulled a trackhoe on. I pulled the trailer forward enough to get the phone and it was smashed. Tried calling it again just to see and nothing doing. It was dead. It used it's last gasp of life to call out for help. My plan was to just go to the much hated WalMart and buy a $40 Android. The wife wasn't having it. She whipped out some old iPhone she had in a drawer and I'm using that now.

I do however NOT go out and buy the latest iterations. Until 2 years ago I still had an iPhone 3. Couldn't even get on the internet with it. My daughter usually gets a new phone every year or two and I buy her old ones. Right now I have an iPhone 6.

@Bassbob current phone ..

 

[Bassbob]

@Bassbob current phone ..
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No, but I still have 2 of these. And they got reception anywhere. Way better than the phones we have now. I remember when phones all went digital. They forced me off this phone. Wouldn't support it anymore. These bagphones were 3 watts compared to the .1 watts or whatever of the little digital phones. I threw a fit in the phone store, told them to F themselves and ended up having to go digital anyway, obviously on a different carrier.

1980's Motorola Bag Phone - Model SCN2497B | eBay

This bag phone from the late 1980's appears to be in good condition except that the antenna is broken (see pic #5). Unknown if it functions - however, the systems over which these phones functioned were totally discontinued in 2008.

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