alt Hacker NewsI prefer dumb phones, and then prefer to not have to carry one 24/7. Device lock-in is a whole other discussion. Why can't phones be switched off anyhow in terms of telco signal? Yet their Wifi and Bluetooth can be. Weird. What are they doing in stealth?
Look how cheap x402 transactions are (ie almost free) https://gemini.google.com/share/cbf1adb1570c It's a new thing - have business models adapted accordingly?
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raw_anon_1111 • today at 4:03 AM
You don’t think your preference for not using a smart phone makes a viable market do you - seeing global penetration of smartphones is 90% and even higher among those who can afford to travel?
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"source" of an LLM chat
https://www.x402.org/ >AI agent sends HTTP request and receives 402: Payment Required
>AI agent pays instantly with stablecoins
Smells like a weird ad to me.