[CharlesW]

> Apple devices as a whole makes me feel like someone who I’d hate to become.

Definitely reason enough to avoid them. I sometimes feel nostalgic for the look/sound/vibe of early personal computing. Yesterday I watched this and briefly contemplated how it would be if computing today looked more like AppleWorks and chonky keyboards instead of black mirrors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xtBspMixHk

> But I would love for my phone to just be a concrete brick that can spit out thermal printed slips of paper with messages on it as text messaging and emails. And if only voice calls were a distributed mesh of Solo cups and strings.

Not quite what you're describing, but this brings Brazil to mind for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xNnRBksvOU