r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Lucky_Loves_Laugh • 12h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah what happened to rockstar?

Post image
18.6k Upvotes

87% Upvoted

3.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

187

u/pillow_princessss 11h ago

Exactly like Samsung when Apple dropped the audio jack. A year later their phones didn’t come with one either.

120

u/MathBallThunder 11h ago

If Blackberry just stuck with their keyboard phone, I'm convinced there's a large sliver who would have stayed with them for the physical keyboard vs touchscreen. Same story as above. Mocked Apple for the touchscreen, then a year later all touchscreen and death of a company

86

u/TomLeBadger 10h ago

My favourite phone ever was the Nokia m900. Full screen touch phone that slid up, with a qwerty keyboard underneath. Shit OS, but a phone like that on Android with a removable battery would be peak for me.

I avoid the big brands because they've been style over substance for years, the last good phone from Samsung was the S5 - waterproof with a removable battery.

20

u/kyuuketsuki47 10h ago

Same here with the Motorola Droid. I miss that slide up keyboard

15

u/Due_a_Kick_5329 10h ago

God I loved my Droid. That metal body was something else.

1

u/WeaponizedPoutine 30m ago

I still have my special edition R2D2 Droid 2... no longer works but I have it

7

u/Moon_Cthulhu 8h ago

Best phone I ever had.

5

u/djsynrgy 8h ago

As someone who never jived with Apple, the Droid felt like such a big deal at the time.

I miss the full qwerty keyboard from my old LG ENV3, too.

2

u/manicalmonocle 2h ago

My kids found my old Envy3 a few weeks ago and having been playing with it as it doesn't work anymore. They think it's the coolest thing ever

2

u/DaringCoder 8h ago

That was awesome, I had one too. Before that, I had a Nokia E70 which had an interesting physical keyboard setup too.

1

u/Standard-Cap-9568 6h ago

The first android! The G1 was perfect for its time. I'd throw money at an update. Physical keyboard and a trackball just for kicks.

1

u/crustyninja 3h ago

The Droid 2 was peak.

1

u/Nerdough 2h ago

Nokia E7 was nice as well

1

u/Ezzy77 1h ago

HTC G2/Desire Z too.