I may be late, but I dislike it because it’s shown off in a teaser, meaning the movie will probably focus more on smartphones than fim did on tech in your collage.

Please list the seasons in which the appliances appeared.

The modern technology did clash pretty hard with G4’s fantasy aesthetic, and the people complaining about the phone probably weren’t thrilled about that clash either.
 
Having said that, one of the questions hanging over G5 is how much time has passed since G4. My theory is that the inclusion of phones answers that question. This would mean that the tech in G5 at least serves a legitimate narrative purpose.

@Background Pony #982F  

 
I could accept this. But I’m not holding my breath.

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I guess you got a good point

@JP  
Ponies in the show have always been able to grip stuff with their hooves, which shouldn’t be possible either. And neither should Coloratura playing the piano. It’s not difficult to headcanon that they all have some kind of invisible magic on the end of their hooves that would let them be used for stuff that would otherwise require hands.
 
“The presence of smartphones immediately brings with them all the other negative aspects, like social networks. I don’t want that junk in pony.”
 
But is that not exactly why it might be a good thing for the show to tackle it? I can’t imagine they’d portray it as only a good thing; maybe social media is what drove everypony apart in the first place. And it would be a good thing to teach kids about the negative aspects of social media.

didn’t epic wub time teach that ponies can’t use the phone?
 

Are we all just gonna ignore the fact that the description is the same as the post, as if we didn’t catch it the first time?

@TexasUberAlles  
Yes, I get that.
 
It’s still going to cover a sizable chunk of the screen. Too large to be useful (little accuracy) unless the device is significantly scaled up.

@Background Pony #6F2B  
They never said it was continuing Gen 4’s story, they just said it takes place in the same world.

@JP  
[audible sigh]  
 
A Pony’s hoof is probably about the diameter of a teacup. Get some dirt or cake frosting or something and tap the edge of a teacup in it, see how “size of a palm” the dent is.

@TexasUberAlles  
The most accurate pointing method ponies have is the size of a palm, so every time they tap something, half of the screen is “pressed”. Their phones would have to be (human) table-sized devices for hoof-oriented tapping.
 
Why would they create devices they (or majority of them, if only unicorns can use magic for accurate pointing) don’t have the dexterity to use properly? They could use mouth-held styluses (like pencils), but we haven’t seen such devices yet.
 
@ApplejackFan204  
Yes, I saw them. It felt completely out-of-place. At least with G5 their presence could be sort-of explained with a long timeskip, but no such thing exists between G4 and G4.5 (that I know of).

@JP  
When you tap something on a cell phone, do mash your entire palm down on it all at once?

@JP  
Ponies also don’t have wings, or horns, or can grow food anywhere, can’t talk, don’t have a civilization, aren’t pastel-colored, aren’t sapient, or use magic.  
Honestly, think about what’s bending you out of shape here.

@JP  
Pony Life found a way (somehow) to use touch screen phones.

@Background Pony #EDFA  
I am giving G5 a chance. Right now not everything in it is looking very promising, but I am giving it a chance. I really hope I end up liking it because otherwise there isn’t much left here for me.
 
And I think you’re exaggerating things pretty badly when you write “because majority of you all can’t grow up and move on and accept change”. From what I saw, the initial reception to G5 was quite positive.
 
@TexasUberAlles  
How does that change anything? Regardless of what technology they use, they touch the screen with a hoof and half of it registers as “pressed”. It’s even more inaccurate than a finger. Yeah, yeah, “dextrous hooves”, that was mostly used as a joke/gimmick.

@JP  
Seriously get over it learn to accept change change is inevitable you can’t stop it and I am really starting to see why so many hate are community because majority of you all can’t grow up and move on and accept change I been in this community for a long time and the amount of ponies that can’t grow up and accept change is getting ridiculous and the fact ponies condemning a show before it even comes out without giving it a chance over the stupidest and smallest things is down right ridiculous. Move on learn to accept change and stop being stuck in the past.

I just want to know how ponies operate touch screen devices

@JP  
Not everything we saw in the show looked like it was designed for hooves  

 
I’m pretty sure G5 takes place more than a decade in the future

@JP
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistive_touchscreen

@JP  
ok boomer

Ponies do not have the appendages required to use a touchscreen.
 
Telephones existed in G4, but they were rotary phones. They even had typewriters designed for hooves. They had electricity, but it was used sparingly.
 
But a touchscreen smartphone? How the hell do they use them?
 
I want pony to remain rooted in fantasy and while G4 had the occassional schizo tech moments, they mostly stayed in their fantasy setting. But a smartphone, a device that did not exist until a little over a decade ago, goes way beyond what’s acceptable as fantasy.
 
Plus my general hatred towards smartphones is a major contributor to me not liking ponies using them. The presence of smartphones immediately brings with them all the other negative aspects, like social networks. I don’t want that junk in pony.
 
(The idea of a smartphone is wonderful, but the implementation is pure gargabe. I pity people who are stuck with phones as their only computing device. They’re prisoners, limited and controlled by others. And they often don’t even understand it, because it’s all they’ve ever had. And they even defend them, because they’re unable to raise their heads up and look around.)

@Background Pony #63CD  
Do those mount on the Cheese Supreme Cannoball Surprise Tank?

@USSCleveDad  
OMG chill, boomer. No, really, they might just use it for comunication. You know, like friends do.