Response to foone's post (copied below)
foone wrote:
The question isn't "should we kill Steve Jobs?" but "when do we kill Steve Jobs?"
Do we undo the smartphone?
OS X?
The Mac?
The Apple II?
Where do we draw the line?
Me:
2011 should be early enough to prevent the start of development of Siri Inside and the whole smartimplant industry that followed. At least if someone else invents them, maybe they'd be regular products you can buy... just think! A world where minisales hadn't been invented! Maybe Siri would even remain ad-free!
Wait... I just noticed my iPhone has a camera prog that lets me actually frame my own shots and stuff like we could back in the feature phone days. Does that mean whoever just got back from their time machine also prevented Apple Photos from coming into existence? Or are they just less blatant about it being a money grab, and letting people take their own photos as well? Is it safe to go outside without a mask now?
(…and before anyone gets on my case for being a "conspiracy theorist", even if I trusted them to only sell to friends and family, I didn't even want my family to have photographs of me before Apple Photos!)
…
…wait, what's COVID?