Motorola aint what it used to be, owned by lenovo now, atleast the consumer portion is.

When Motorola was American-owned, they weren’t updating phones, and blaming Nvidia. Talking about the Sunfire (Photon 4G on Sprint, and Electrify 3G on US Cellular), but I’m sure there were others. The Atrix (AT&T one, but older) got one update, largely assumed (but never confirmed) to be because AT&T pushed them to update it.

Motorola was never good. The Moto X was a big selling point because it was made in the US, but it had like 8GB or 16GB of storage and they didn’t put a memory card slot in it (back when everyone else but Apple was). I forget which it was, but my wife had one, and there was only the one size, and that phone basically sucked ass. The Moto G was a bit more versatile over its generations, but all of them sucked in one way or another. I think the only one that was anywhere approaching decent was the original DROID. And that phone was largely a gimmick.

My wife once had the Droid Turbo 2. The one with the “Kevlar” back. That phone was such trash, but it held itself out as some kind of super premium thing. Like it wanted to be the iPhone of the Android world, or rather, that one manufacturer that makes shitty Android phones but puts them in a leather case to appeal to the ultra rich (and ultra stupid).

I just heard the iPhone 5 got pushed from “Vintage” (no longer sold, but still serviced) to “Obsolete” (no longer serviced) by Apple. I would rather have an iPhone 5 than pretty much any Motorola. I dare say it would work better and for longer (assuming both phones were factory sealed and everything was in perfect working order). Fun fact: it was the last iPhone without any kind of biometric authentication, and it had a headphone jack. Sadly it only went up to 64GB (or 32GB or 16GB), so 4-8X what a Moto X had.

Cursing your take in 680x0

The chips in the old Macs? Shit, I forgot about those. Not usable today for anything you can’t do on Apple Silicon, but I do have many fond memories of pre-PPC Macs, from the Mac Classic (whatever that run) to System 7 on post-Jobs Performas and Quadras and LCIIIs. Apple kinda sucked when they were trying to be like other PC manufacturers, but I do have good memories of System 7 (and jailbreaking out of At Ease at school, fuck At Ease, all the homies hated At Ease).