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[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 155 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

2010: We want bigger batteries, they give us colorful phones

2015 We want bigger batteries, they give us 1mm thinner phones

2020 We want bigger batteries, they give us 5 cameras

2025 We want bigger batteries, they give us AI

Phones are a great example of the utter failure of capitalism to address what people actually need and want.

[-] Zerthax@reddthat.com 60 points 3 weeks ago

They also keep taking away features, like removable storage (microSD) and headphone jacks. There's a few phones that have them, but it gets more difficult to find them as time goes on.

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Create a problem, sell a solution. It's so annoying.
headphone jack -> sell bluetooth headphones
microSD -> sell cloud storage

[-] copd@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Late stage capitalism

[-] Zerthax@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Create a problem, sell a solution

Under the guise of "innovation"

[-] wick@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

Sony Xperia flagship has both. I think it's the only Snapdragon 8g3 phone that does.

[-] jdowns@bitbang.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

@Zerthax They’ll say they are responding to consumers who “want cloud storage and wireless headphones,” but options are always better, in my opinion.

[-] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

*folds phone in half*

That's two batteries for the price of one.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 20 points 3 weeks ago

More like two batteries for the price of two phones; foldables are still expensive AF

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

Two half-size batteries for the price of three full-size phones coming right up

[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 weeks ago

I would like colourful phones back though, they were so much more fun compared to the sea of black/white/grey + ONE option in the blue-purple spectrum we have today.

Can we get that AND bigger batteries?...bigger colourful batteries even?

[-] Lojcs@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

And cameras! Don't replace 12mp 2x telephotos with 48mp 1x digital zoom cameras pls

[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 12 points 3 weeks ago

Steve Jobs proved that consumers don’t actually know what they want until you tell them. And it’s the manufacturers job to tell them what they want and deliver it.

Since Apple doesn’t want a bigger battery that means no one gets a bigger battery.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

jobs was an ass. and smelled like it

[-] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Nah man, everyone around him must have been smelling something else. He was on the all fruit diet.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

fruit. that explains it

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