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[–] cron@feddit.org -4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're angry that new(er) phones get new features? This is ... interesting.

But still, it will likely work with every Pixel phone released in the last two years, so there are some models available to choose from and they're not too expensive (Pixel 8a and 9a).

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The problem is that 8 year old phones from Samsung also had this feature.

And further that 3 year old Google phones don't even have the necessary hardware to ever make this work, even if they did push the software to it.

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm angry that the new(er) phones get features that PHONES FROM 2015 ALREADY HAD.

Everyone is so pissed when Apple does it but when Google does it its A-okay? I don't want to upgrade my phone just because a feature that was removed for no reason other than to sell chromecasts is now being added back.

I love CONSOOMING new phones. I love buying the new thing every year and creating e-waste!! Yes big brother please remove the SD Card slot and sell me a cloud subscription, yes please remove the headphone jack and sell me a dongle!

I don't get it man. Make it make sense. Why is it a good thing that they got rid of the feature in the first place to bring it back later as a "new" feature.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Some marketing survey shown that insignificant amount of users would use desktop mode, so they bought cheaper USB electronics for their next phone, that's all. Never mind that Samsung adverises DeX so Galaxy users ar least know there is a desktop mode in their phone.