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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  episode #205 of How big tech is ruining tech again

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  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a monthly podcast

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  • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m on year 5 of mine. Literally no issues

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    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For me the only thing I look in new phones now is camera quality, since I only take photos and video with my phone. If that was upgradeable, it would be awesome. Plus, now even Android is getting the Apple treatment this year, everything is just getting shittier.

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  • tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It doesn’t have to be a new model though

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  • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is this communism?

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is the AI mafia so powerful that it can manage to piss off every computing manufacturer in the world with total impunity?

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• unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had considered upgrading this year. I just bought two battery cases for my s20fe cause I figure I’ll have it for awhile longer now and my battery case is getting hard to find now and the current one is more than a year old.

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