Worldwide Smartphone Market to Decline 13% in 2026, Marking the Largest Drop Ever Due to the Memory Shortage Crisis, according to IDC

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• yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  episode #205 of How big tech is ruining tech again

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  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Only 205? I would’ve thought we’d be in the thousands by now.

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  • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or maybe people finally understand that it is useless to swap the phone every year.

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• deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We’ve already made so many phones that can do all of the exact same things over the last 10 or so years. I think if we just stopped making them for a while and simply worked on updating all of those old phones, we might actually be better off.

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  • stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “But shareholders expect a new phone every year…”

    I agree, the changes year after year are so minor at this point that a 2 year cycle is enough. Just look at the S26 that Samsung just announced, they are rightly getting criticised for how little they changed. Heck, they have been using the same image sensors for like 4 years now.

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    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      But at least it costs a fortune!

      If everything that changes is the NPU, I’m not sure why I should buy it. I don’t give a crap about AI features. As long as my battery holds, I’m fine.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Shareholders wouod prefer you sld the same phone every year, as long as you make money

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  • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is this communism?

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  • tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That would be fine if parts like the battery, charger port and microphone were replaceable.

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    • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It doesn’t have to be a new model though

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