![It's no accident that Apple chose a yellow icon for its walkie-talkie feature. I dug out my old (2002ish) Nextel with PTT (push to talk). It was all the rage back then... : It's no accident that Apple chose a yellow icon for its walkie-talkie feature. I dug out my old (2002ish) Nextel with PTT (push to talk). It was all the rage back then... :](https://preview.redd.it/9vwp97t7pqp11.jpg?auto=webp&s=f5fe3c40ea133a191871661e78b0ce3136ad0ff0)
It's no accident that Apple chose a yellow icon for its walkie-talkie feature. I dug out my old (2002ish) Nextel with PTT (push to talk). It was all the rage back then... :
Michael Fisher on Twitter: "From printing money to punchline, in less than two years. ☠️ On today's episode of "When Phones Were Fun," re-live the improbable rise and catastrophic fall of Nextel:
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