Capitalist innovation.

https://youtu.be/IS0SItAzEXg?si=qul70USoan3sN-NW&t=440

7:20 in the video

it breaks so easily wtf

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    There really is no goddamn point in releasing new models this frequently anymore. The only thing that gets upgraded in any meaningful way is the camera and even that is small potatoes relatively speaking. They’re burning through rare earth metals right at the time we need to be conserving this shit. Give us a phone we can replace the battery in, that’s the innovation we really need.

    • ReadFanon [any, any]
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      1 year ago

      At least give us phones which have uniform thickness so that the camera bezels are flat, that way they can fit higher capacity batteries into the phones.

      Never has there been a lost sale because one smartphone is 0.5mm thicker than other offerings.

      • PKMKII [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah that’s one area where the smartphone manufacturers are completely out of sync with the market. No one wants to return to those 90’s giant brick cell phones, but the first thing everyone does with a new smartphone is, buy a thick ass ten foot drop rated case and a shield protector. We very clearly have no issue with our phones being thicker.

        • ReadFanon [any, any]
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          1 year ago

          All the consumers are like "I want fewer ports", "I want a thinner, less durable phone", "I need a smaller battery capacity"

          Show

          I just wanna design phones for God's sake!

          • Helmic [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            No expandable memory either. I love paying three hundred dollars out my bleeding ass for 512 gigs of internal only storage, instead of $100 for a 2tb SD card.