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Everyone will buy this Uber smartphone and it will be the end for hundreds of thousands of people in the industry, from designers and PRs to factory workers all the way up to high management stuff (I won't feel sorry about the latter). :)) But yeah, the same reason applies to the question, "Why don't we have cars that last 100 years?" We could have unbreakable stuff but the economy will fail miserably :))
Who cares really, I need my phone to be practical and reliable not funky designed and wacky, you simply cannot do much with a flat slab of all screen, back in the day when you had a small screen and a physical keyboard you could go crazy with designs and they were superb, they also cost a fraction of the cost of todays devices.
But now outside of a folding/flip/rolling display you cant physically do much apart from lights, funky pattern frame and colour schemes, almost all upgrades have to be internal, but again, phones have levelled off with what components you can actually fit in side.
Everything else that has been removed makes no odds, headphone jack in 2023? not needed, power adaptor or cable? not needed, expandable storage? nice and handy but portable storage is cheaper and faster and more secure.
I would argue that all modern phones be sold WITH a screen protector and a protective case, or at the very least offered free of charge, I am way more likely to need that then a charger.
Having said all that, lack of competition is also allowing companies to get lazy, and the worst of these culprits was apple, they like to say they set trends, fine, they removed the jack so other companies realised they could cash in, they removed the charger, other companies followed, they charged insane amounts for their iphones....you get the drift, they were also the first company to refresh the iphone 6 series what 4 times? so other companies followed, and boom, now we have very small iterative gains year on year.
I agree with 99% of your points, except price. In 2008 I bought a factory unlocked Palm Treo Pro and it was $700. Carriers subsidized phones heavily back then so it felt like they were cheaper. The OG Razr V3 was $500 FFS!
Of course not. If it were up to me, I'd slowly steer away from this disposable reality. Humanity should focus more on services, interactions, art, and culture as economic drivers and leave the material stuff, well, not behind, but at the lower base of the pyramid, where it actually belongs.
We're just stuck at "owning stuff" at the moment, not sure if it's an easy thing to change; after all, it's evolutionary-driven, but I hope things will slowly start to change.
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Everyone will buy this Uber smartphone and it will be the end for hundreds of thousands of people in the industry, from designers and PRs to factory workers all the way up to high management stuff (I won't feel sorry about the latter). :)) But yeah, the same reason applies to the question, "Why don't we have cars that last 100 years?" We could have unbreakable stuff but the economy will fail miserably :))
Who cares really, I need my phone to be practical and reliable not funky designed and wacky, you simply cannot do much with a flat slab of all screen, back in the day when you had a small screen and a physical keyboard you could go crazy with designs and they were superb, they also cost a fraction of the cost of todays devices.
But now outside of a folding/flip/rolling display you cant physically do much apart from lights, funky pattern frame and colour schemes, almost all upgrades have to be internal, but again, phones have levelled off with what components you can actually fit in side.
Everything else that has been removed makes no odds, headphone jack in 2023? not needed, power adaptor or cable? not needed, expandable storage? nice and handy but portable storage is cheaper and faster and more secure.
I would argue that all modern phones be sold WITH a screen protector and a protective case, or at the very least offered free of charge, I am way more likely to need that then a charger.
Having said all that, lack of competition is also allowing companies to get lazy, and the worst of these culprits was apple, they like to say they set trends, fine, they removed the jack so other companies realised they could cash in, they removed the charger, other companies followed, they charged insane amounts for their iphones....you get the drift, they were also the first company to refresh the iphone 6 series what 4 times? so other companies followed, and boom, now we have very small iterative gains year on year.
I agree with 99% of your points, except price. In 2008 I bought a factory unlocked Palm Treo Pro and it was $700. Carriers subsidized phones heavily back then so it felt like they were cheaper. The OG Razr V3 was $500 FFS!
So you think it's better to make piles of trash and use up the planets resources because "the economy will fail"? How about the planet failing?
Just get a case of whatever material you want. Changing the design of the back is not what I would call innovation anyway.
After something reaches perfection, there is no more way to make it better, you'll only make it worse.
Of course not. If it were up to me, I'd slowly steer away from this disposable reality. Humanity should focus more on services, interactions, art, and culture as economic drivers and leave the material stuff, well, not behind, but at the lower base of the pyramid, where it actually belongs.
We're just stuck at "owning stuff" at the moment, not sure if it's an easy thing to change; after all, it's evolutionary-driven, but I hope things will slowly start to change.
Russia just invented a battery that can last 10 years without charging! They are too big for a phone but could power a car.