I'm sick of phones
I'm sick of phones
With apple's recycled event, I've come to say I'm sick of phones.
Phones are already "perfected". They can call. Run apps.
We really need to focus on efficiency. E.g, lowering price, increasing battery life, improving software
But nooo. Add a bunch of extremely minor features with a 50% faster chip so you can watch ads at 1080p instead of 720p. I don't care! Give me a phone that'll last me 5 years and has a battery life that lasts a week. I don't need this crap every year. Why do we live in a situation where people think they need to buy a new phone yearly?!
I say a phone should get at minimum 5 years of software support.
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Even five years is shockingly low for me given how long we used to have the same stuff when I was a kid, like TVs and kitchen stuff. I still have the same knife from my first apartment (1996) and even then that knife was a decade old because it was a hand-me-down. But as soon as software gets involved everything suddenly gets super obsolescent 😭
Did you really just compare a smartphone to a knife?
And to TVs, cars, record players, speakers, lamps, microwave ovens
@PraiseTheSoup @Sandra They are (should be) just tools to do a job. Having said that I went to the Edinburgh Festival with some of my family this year, and noticed that they could, for example, book tickets for a show much faster than I could on my nearly seven year old phone. When not seeing it in comparison with others, though, I do not usually think of mine as slow.
The worry with older phones is the lack of security updates. One of the bugs in market capitalism is that supporting older devices eats into the profit. Unlike the old days where there were third-party TV repair shops.
@Sandra @PraiseTheSoup @rant An excellent point - although most of the security bugs seem to be in the bits which have been added to 'add value' and which I try to avoid.