>the US, where Nokia was non existent
That's completely false. Nokia was by for the largest cell phone brand in the US in the early 2000s.
That's completely false. Nokia was by for the largest cell phone brand in the US in the early 2000s.
It makes me question any HN historian chiming in on the past when people are so wrong about such a recent era.
Man, this was the era that was so ubiquitous with flip phone usage that "free ringtones" were the biggest spamsite genre of the time and entire kiosks at the mall existed to sell you custom faceplates and vajazzling decor for your phone.
I think one thing at play is that people regularly extrapolate their microscopic local experience into broad wisdom about the world. Nobody in their social circle had a Nokia? It was dead in USA. Nobody in their social circle texted much? Nobody did. They don't like spinach? Kids would never eat salad (which I just saw in another thread). Maybe it's a bug in the human software.
I think the issue sibling comment to yours was getting at but not directly saying, is that humans have a bad habit of not remembering exact time periods for non-important distant past things. It’s why I cross reference on Wikipedia or other sources before stating things matter of factly for anything I’m pretty sure about, but not positive on. Wish more folks did that!
[0] confirmed on Wikipedia, as I wasn’t positive.