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If a handheld device cannot withstand being dropped, it’s planned obsolescence (feddit.de)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've had cell phones for over 2 decades, and I've never dropped one

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Meh, I can see that, my dad is the same way, the trick is he hardly uses one and treats it like an OSHA situation when he's operating it.

TBH it's not the worst habit to have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I guarantee you, he would still have dropped it at least once in two decades of use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I got my first cell phone in middle school, and I knew that if it broke I wasn't getting another one, so I made sure to hold it securely when using it, since I didn't want to drop and break it. When I eventually upgraded to a smartphone a few years after they started getting popular, I held it even more securely, since it was even more expensive, and even more fragile. At this point it's just second nature to me to handle phones like I'm transporting fine china.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think I'm pretty careful with my phones. In the last 20 years I've broken only one. But they are easily dropped, I do it pretty often. Just because it's something I'm always holding and moving around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'm not trying to claim superiority for never having dropped a phone - I understand that different people have different needs, and one of them is a phone that can survive frequent falls. However, I also recognize that features that myself and others use regularly are often removed from models that emphasize durability, whether or not their removal is actually helping, or just cutting costs. So I don't want to push phone manufacturers to focus so much on that one feature - that is important to some, but not to others - that they end up removing features that are equally important to certain people.