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[–] [email protected] 157 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Create a problem, sell a solution

Under the guise of "innovation"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Late stage capitalism

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

*folds phone in half*

That's two batteries for the price of one.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

jobs was an ass. and smelled like it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

fruit. that explains it

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

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