Comment on New mobile features are sh*t these days

• AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The phones with those features have been discontinued but they were never unpopular, they were just what phones were.

  Nobody 10 years ago was saying “I wish I couldn’t replace my phone battery” or “I hate that I have the option to plug my wired IEMs into my phone”

  People just do what people are good at. Adapting.

  Manufacturers have taken these options away because it is profitable to do so. People have largely adapted to that (although I still refuse to buy a phone without a headphone jack)

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, and the reason it was profitable to do so was that people don’t care about them.

    If they did care, the companies that removed them would have gone out of business.

    So, again, most people - of which we are not - do not care about these features.

    Sorry to burst your bubble.

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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  have been discontinued or unpopular.

  …and? Manufacturers will drop expandable storage because they can charge $100+ more for a model with another 128gb. Yes they still sell phones with them but they’re not the flagships.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are there phones with expandable storage that people could buy to avoid that cost?

    If so, why aren’t they that popular?

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why are you like this?

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      • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m sure there’s companies that make them. But if people wanted them, and they’re able to buy them, then there must be

        Maybe it’s because most people - not internet nerds like us - don’t care about those things.

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• photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wdym? Fairphone is pretty popular.

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