• PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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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.

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      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.

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        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.

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

          I just wanna design phones for God’s sake!

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            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.

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    iPhones are shit. It’s the official phone of yuppies. I’m still on a Samsung Galaxy s10e for fucks sake. And it doesnt have a glass back, which is possibly the stupidest fucking design choice on a phone. They have the glass back to make you buy a case.

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        Most repairable iPhone that you have to spend like $70 renting a 70 pound repair kit for only a week, have to buy it if you lose a part, and doesn’t even include the replacement part.

        Sure, oil execs deserve to hang for condemning humanity to a climate hellscape, but Apple frankly is up their in their ecological crimes against humanity.

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    Why is everyone ignoring the fact that the guy is promoting a $50 clear plastic case for the phones? he literally has a cash incentive to make them look weak. If you push any caseless phone between your fingers with full force like that you’re bound to break most of them.

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        He’s also done the same bend test several other models and the glass does cave into the middle like it did with the 15 Pro Max. Heck he does it to the 15 Pro in the same video and it doesn’t cave in.

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    The thing that I always ponder with these kinds of situations is how much money is made by having a design flaw that is replaceable and thus a money-spinner for Apple vs the damage it’s going to do to their brand image by having their premium line of phones (and their prominent logo) being associated with cracked glass.

    I mean, I really don’t give a damn but the people who do buy these phones generally buy them due to brand prestige. This is real LSC Tesla-style panel gap problems; the fanbois will fawn over the devices when the rest of the world will be scoffing and shaking their heads at them.