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With the storage cost crisis which will make future phone more expensive I'm sure a lot of people will wish they could prolong the lifetime of theri current dev

by nebalee 5mo ago

With the storage cost crisis which will make future phone more expensive I'm sure a lot of people will wish they could prolong the lifetime of theri current device with a battery swap.

alterom 5mo ago
>With the storage cost crisis On that note, mandating an SD card slot as a requirement would be a very much welcome next step. Manufacturers selling space-crippled devices just to upsell "premium" models is such an environmental waste (at the very least).
- abletonlive 5mo ago
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  - anonymars 5mo ago
    I can't tell if this is sarcasm or truly a straight-faced attempt to teach us about "healthy reactions" to things
    - alterom 5mo ago
      I like their attempt to teach us about "selfishness" even more. Product regulations are "selfish", mmmkay. Requiring seat belts in cars is starting up tyranny¹. Ditto for rear-view cameras. How dare they! Those authoritarian Europeans²! _____ ¹ According to this guy — and we know it's a guy, don't we? ² Rear view cameras are required on all new vehicles sold in the US.
      - abletonlive 5mo ago
        Did you just compare sd cards to safety regulations? If you’re going to be intentionally obtuse at least put some effort into it
    - NoGravitas 5mo ago
      'im not owned! im not owned!!', i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
  - alterom 5mo ago
    Mmmmmkay. Now go ahead an explain how having a microSD¹ slot may hurt someone who has a device that reads/writes data². Not hurt shareholder value. I'm talking about people³ here. I'll wait. Very curious to hear your perspective here. _____ ¹ Technology that has existed for 2+ decades at this point, is the defacto standard for removable storage in phones, laptops, cameras, audio recorders, etc, supported by devices that sell for $5 new and relied on by the highest end pro gear, current spec making it forwards and backwards compatible for the foreseeable future. Something that takes virtually no physical space and costs virtually nothing to add to a device that already needs to operate on gigabytes of data (we're not talking about forcing that, say, on a thermostat). ² Particularly, one which can run into a "Storage full" error. ³ Physical human beings (including, but not limited to, the end users), and specifically not your (or some CEO's) feelings about it.
  - littlestymaar 5mo ago
    > you think you know better than the marketplace about what people want For reason, otherwise grown up people still believes there's a fantasyland “market” that automatically adapts to what consumers want. I'm afraid to inform you that Santa ain't real, it's your parents who bring you gifts for Christmas no matter what you dreamed about, and it's the companies product department who brings you the features that end up in your phone, no matter what the consumers really want. Nobody ever asked for uninstallable bloatware, yet they are in every phone. Nobody asked for a new redesign that makes you wonder where the damn button you want is now located. And so on.

by nebalee 5mo ago

With the storage cost crisis which will make future phone more expensive I'm sure a lot of people will wish they could prolong the lifetime of theri current device with a battery swap.

alterom 5mo ago

>With the storage cost crisis On that note, mandating an SD card slot as a requirement would be a very much welcome next step. Manufacturers selling space-crippled devices just to upsell "premium" models is such an environmental waste (at the very least).

abletonlive 5mo ago
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- anonymars 5mo ago
  I can't tell if this is sarcasm or truly a straight-faced attempt to teach us about "healthy reactions" to things
  - alterom 5mo ago
    I like their attempt to teach us about "selfishness" even more. Product regulations are "selfish", mmmkay. Requiring seat belts in cars is starting up tyranny¹. Ditto for rear-view cameras. How dare they! Those authoritarian Europeans²! _____ ¹ According to this guy — and we know it's a guy, don't we? ² Rear view cameras are required on all new vehicles sold in the US.
    - abletonlive 5mo ago
      Did you just compare sd cards to safety regulations? If you’re going to be intentionally obtuse at least put some effort into it
  - NoGravitas 5mo ago
    'im not owned! im not owned!!', i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
- alterom 5mo ago
  Mmmmmkay. Now go ahead an explain how having a microSD¹ slot may hurt someone who has a device that reads/writes data². Not hurt shareholder value. I'm talking about people³ here. I'll wait. Very curious to hear your perspective here. _____ ¹ Technology that has existed for 2+ decades at this point, is the defacto standard for removable storage in phones, laptops, cameras, audio recorders, etc, supported by devices that sell for $5 new and relied on by the highest end pro gear, current spec making it forwards and backwards compatible for the foreseeable future. Something that takes virtually no physical space and costs virtually nothing to add to a device that already needs to operate on gigabytes of data (we're not talking about forcing that, say, on a thermostat). ² Particularly, one which can run into a "Storage full" error. ³ Physical human beings (including, but not limited to, the end users), and specifically not your (or some CEO's) feelings about it.
- littlestymaar 5mo ago
  > you think you know better than the marketplace about what people want For reason, otherwise grown up people still believes there's a fantasyland “market” that automatically adapts to what consumers want. I'm afraid to inform you that Santa ain't real, it's your parents who bring you gifts for Christmas no matter what you dreamed about, and it's the companies product department who brings you the features that end up in your phone, no matter what the consumers really want. Nobody ever asked for uninstallable bloatware, yet they are in every phone. Nobody asked for a new redesign that makes you wonder where the damn button you want is now located. And so on.