Comment on Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade
pachrist@lemmy.world 8 months agoBad, non-consumer centric marketing forces poor changes. We could invest in all day battery life, or we could make the frame out of titanium. Titanium is easier, so boom, done! Do you want a headphone jack, or do you want a slide in the presentation that says the phone is 0.2mm thinner and 5g lighter? Done! Sleek, elegant, thin, sexy, but no headphone jack.
Nobody makes a phone with the consumer’s convenience and experience in mind anymore. They make things without microSD card slots to drive subscriptions to their cloud platform. Instead of selling me a $60 battery I can change myself, they parts lock all pieces of the phone. It’s totally anti-consumer, and I don’t understand why. If someone released a stylish flagship phone right now with headphones, microSD, good battery life, and snappy performance, they’d trade wireless earbud and cloud platform sales for straight market share. How is that not worth it?
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I don’t think so, the companies (mostly Apple), are making these changes and twisting them to make it sound presentable, but in reality, they’re making it less usable for the consumer unless they pay more money. They continue to do this because people still support it by buying them each year. Plenty of people at my campus are Apple fanboys for life and upgrade to the newest releases each year. When Apple fucks their consumers and their consumers still purchase them, other technology companies follow behind because it’s proven success.
When companies fuck you over, don’t continue giving them money to fuck you again. This is easier said than done as it’s more of a societal shift but let’s say everybody holds off, or a good portion hold off and demand that the companies changes things up, then something may be done to get the point across.
This upcoming phone update I’m tempted to buy the fairphone 5 even if theres no upgradable sd slot or headphone jack because it’s not like the google pixel will introduce it. I just hope CalyxOS supports it soon.
dedBird@lemmy.world 8 months ago
…fairphone.com/…/10489306843409-Install-a-Micro-S… According to their site, you should still be able to upgrade storage space with a micro sd. Another recommendation is that if you do buy a fairphone dont buy the adapter from usb c to aux from them, ive bought 2 from them and they both broke within half a year.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s all actually very good news. I must’ve missed that in the specs sheet. I guess the only thing fairphone doesn’t have now is a headphone jack. I’m a bit more inclined to buy their products now. Really, the only thing that’s holding me back is CalyxOS support. I know it’s been supported on the FP4 and I hope it will be available for FP5 soon. I also live in the US of A so that adds additional complications.
raldone01@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The fp5 is looking good finally with an oled screen. That was the only thing keeping me from buying the fp4.