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Bogmanbob t1_ixp8e8q wrote

Anyone remember those lighter simulating apps?

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KingEOK t1_ixq3zmx wrote

First gen apps really were shocking wernt they.

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PatmygroinB t1_ixq99l7 wrote

Lemme get that beer I can tilt and drink, then I’ll break out the cyber zippo

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Few-Requirement-3544 t1_ixr2ncu wrote

Remember the $999 app that had no purpose but to be expensive and show a red glow when you opened it, called "I am very rich" or something to that effect?

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clueless3410 t1_ixrb4xm wrote

I hope the developer of that app is retired on an island somewhere. Pure genius

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respectthegoat t1_ixsdmxj wrote

Only like a dozen people got it, good payday but not live on a island money

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RRettig t1_ixrevby wrote

2005 was before apps, you would have been lifting your Motorola Razors in the air

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milkysway1 t1_ixp4gmm wrote

Can I light a smoke with my cell phone?

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Suspect-k t1_ixp5ec2 wrote

They got a' app for that.

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targonnn t1_ixpehfc wrote

Just short your battery and it will light up

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kinzer13 t1_ixpmd6p wrote

I'm surprised no one has fused a vape pen with a phone, honestly.

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I_Miss_Lenny t1_ixpymhp wrote

They do make phone cases with built in lighters, so like kinda?

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xdr01 t1_ixpkyc3 wrote

Using Apple's offical "U2 album uninstal tool " from their itunes.

Still makes me laugh that was a real peice of software people demanded.

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OldMork t1_ixpw7vw wrote

U2 should have offer the album for free and not forced it into every iphone and ipod.

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arcaresenal t1_ixq69mo wrote

U2 didn’t force anything. Apple paid U2 and Universal Music Group a multimillion lump sum for a five-week exclusivity window in which to distribute the album. Apple then used the deal to add the album to every iTunes account. Most of those users had no idea you could simply remove the album from their music libraries, although it would remain in their account under “Purchased”. In the end it was a brilliant marketing scheme that ended poorly. U2 over estimated their popularity and Apple over estimated their customers competency with their software.

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TheThingy t1_ixqawyn wrote

That album still plays every time I connect my phone to my car, until I open Spotify.

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Gunch_Bandit t1_ixplalv wrote

Lighters looked about 7000x better

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GeneralShark97 t1_ixqo1io wrote

safer and easier to handle tho

plus airport security lets phones though

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Gunch_Bandit t1_ixr2ln1 wrote

I'll admit, it sucks to hold a lit lighter for longer than a few seconds.

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BoredDanishGuy t1_ixqt7fc wrote

Airport security doesn't allow lighters?

I've never not had lighters on me when flying.

Is this a US thing?

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GeneralShark97 t1_ixr90k6 wrote

i’ve never gotten lighters through CBSA, maybe just stricter in Toronto 🤷‍♂️

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monchota t1_ixqogig wrote

I witnessed this start to happen, people not adults at the time do not understand. How fast it went from one family member having cell phones, to all of them. It was within two years, I started selling for Cingular/then Att when I was 19 at the time and from 2005 to 2007. I watched every single person get a cell phone, it was something we may not see again in our lifetimes. A huge social shift to handheld communications. I also saw a lot of concerts ofcourse at that time. You saw it go from lighters to phones in the same time.

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Zkenny13 t1_ixp50qq wrote

Of course it was at a U2 concert.

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beeen_there t1_ixp0219 wrote

About twenty years after U2's shift from lighters to cellphones.

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DjScenester t1_ixpdu7m wrote

It was the Vertigo tour at the United Center. It was two days actually so not sure what day they are referring too.

Killer light show by U2 too.

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E_Snap t1_ixpkr07 wrote

Hate to burst your bubble, but the band usually has little to nothing to do with the light show.

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DjScenester t1_ixpwtuf wrote

Boy. You took me literally. It was just a comment on their cool set up for their tour lol

Easy there tiger lol

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E_Snap t1_ixqybhb wrote

You also say that Michael Schumacher builds and maintains his own F1 car? Don’t gloss over all hard work being done to support your favorite celebrities. It’s offensive to the enormous teams behind them to give the famous people onstage all of the credit.

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jopnk t1_ixsk8i5 wrote

What a pedantic and insufferable tool you are!

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bluebirdgm t1_ixsd6s0 wrote

In Korea, the record companies figured out how to make some extra money out of this: instead of lighters or phones, many K-Pop artists and groups have an “official lightstick” with a special design, to be bought by fans as a way to identify themselves as fans of the act. While some have simple features like flashing and changing color with a button press, others actually connect via Bluetooth to one’s smartphone, not only allowing the user to control their lightstick with an app, but in some situations, allowing the lighting technician to control the lightstick, letting them make light patterns in the audience during the concert. The sticks sell for around $30 in Korea, which with shipping and overhead translates more to $50-$70 in the US.

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V6Ga t1_ixql4ix wrote

Anyone one want to ELI5 this for the slow kids in the back of the class?

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drpinkcream t1_ixqva9d wrote

Well young'un back in my day when we went to concerts and we're connecting with some deep shit in a ballad tune, we'd all hold up our cigarette lighters in unison. We all had cigarette lighters on us because we also were all smoking cigarettes back then, and we liked it!

Nowadays you young'uns are too soft to smoke a pack a day, so you never carry lighters with you. Instead you hold up your phone screen and to get a similar albeit lamer effect.

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lostan t1_ixre51k wrote

> connecting with some deep shit in a ballad tune

lol, those were the days!

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bluebirdgm t1_ixsenv3 wrote

>Instead you hold up your phone screen and to get a similar albeit lamer effect.

I’ve also seen it done with a phone’s “flashlight” feature.

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V6Ga t1_ixrcsd4 wrote

I always thought that holding up lighters thing was a movie thing.

People really did that? That's weird. But then again so is taking videos of things that are happening instead of actually watching what it happening.

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Dickastigmatism t1_ixy5f34 wrote

Weed legalization is bringing it back, I see lots of lighters at outdoor concerts

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bluebirdgm t1_ixse4iq wrote

What’s the difference between a smartphone and a Zippo? A smartphone weighs about seven ounces, a Zippo is a little lighter.

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MrMitchWeaver t1_ixqnx0f wrote

Literally yesterday I was wondering about this. Thanks.

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moehoward3 t1_ixqze1b wrote

Someone do the calculations regarding which method is more "green".

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ExpoLima t1_ixrb84s wrote

It was a sad day

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olafthebent t1_ixrmnve wrote

I still use a zippo

Stopped smoking years ago

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XuX24 t1_ixrqumx wrote

Now they use wristbands that light up with the music.

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productiveslacker73 t1_ixseuy7 wrote

F the first (and every) time some shithead held their phone above them the whole show to record the show.

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