When the very first cars were built, only the rich could afford it, but now a large part of the population (in developed countries) has one or more.

What do you think will be such an evolution in the future?

  • Dasnap@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 year ago

    I thought we worked for decades to take moving components out of portable devices as they were the biggest point of failure?

    • plistig@feddit.deEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      We did. Because of that people are using their phones for too long without replacing them. This makes Samsung and Apple sad, so they make new phones fail sooner.

      • Sylver@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        This is also how I feel. However, I don’t want to upgrade mine every year, I want to upgrade every ten years when it actually makes sense.

        I feel we can’t both be made happy.

      • Dandroid@dandroid.app
        1·
        1 year ago

        Same. But there hasn’t been an improvement in technology worth a phone upgrade in like 10 years.

          • Dandroid@dandroid.app
            1·
            1 year ago

            Well, that’s on the iPhone side, which was lagging significantly behind Android at that time. 2013 was the Galaxy S4, which had LTE (still good today), all the same sensors phones have today, 1080p screen, 4k video recording, 13 megapixel camera, and 802.11ac (5GHz) wifi. It even had a headphone jack, micro SD card reader, and a removable battery, which is better than most phones now.

            Drawbacks are that the RAM was low (2GB), the CPU is old, and the version of Android hasn’t been updated in a very long time.

            The only thing that has really upgraded in the last 10 years for Android phones is that that the RAM, CPU, and camera get incrementally better each year. There hasn’t been a new technology or feature that I have cared about or wanted since then. And honestly, I feel like the camera was good enough 10 years ago as well. I couldn’t care less if the camera on my current phone was the same as the Galaxy S4 camera.

              • Dandroid@dandroid.app
                1·
                1 year ago

                My point is that it isn’t a reason for me to go out and get a new phone every year. Or even when the phones are planned to go obsolete after 2 years. Maybe after 5 or 6 years, but definitely not 2. It’s not because of new technology that I want that I get new phones. I get new phones because the phones are designed to completely fall apart after 2 years.