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"few customers care" is not the democratic ideal you make it sound to be. It's the same as glued batteries, unrepairable phones. Few customers making it an abs
by makeitdouble 9mo ago
"few customers care" is not the democratic ideal you make it sound to be.
It's the same as glued batteries, unrepairable phones. Few customers making it an absolute criteria for their phone choice still doesn't make mean the majority sees it as a positive thing nor they agree. At the time on the android side, only Pixel and Samsung's lines were serious about the camera or international NFC support, moving to other phones just for the jack came with huge compromises that had nothing to do with the jack itself.
- wat10000 9mo agoIt’s a competitive market. If removable batteries mattered to a lot of people, some company would take advantage of that to make a lot of money. Feature combinations aren’t immutable facts of nature. Manufacturers make a conscious choice about what to include. If a good camera and international NFC combined with a headphone jack would attract a lot of buyers, don’t you think Samsung or Google would make a phone like that to better compete? It’s nothing to do with “democratic ideal.” It’s about understanding that companies want to make money and if a feature is desirable, they will leverage that in their quest to make money. Some may fail to understand what their customers want, but all of them? It’s not plausible.
- makeitdouble 9mo ago> It's a competitive market. Is it ? We have a paper trail of lawsuits telling another story.
- wat10000 9mo agoDo we?
- makeitdouble 9mo agoThe whole DMA saga started from Apple being designated a gate keeper.
- wat10000 9mo agoThat’s software. We’re talking about hardware.