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Yeah, I would say people haven't gotten enough time to sense that a $200 phone beats the pants off of a $750 one if you consider price, battery life and what it
by blinkingled 11y ago
Yeah, I would say people haven't gotten enough time to sense that a $200 phone beats the pants off of a $750 one if you consider price, battery life and what it does objectively. Just a year or so ago $200 phones could be dinged in some way or the other - bad camera, bad battery life, low durability, slower performance etc.
I wonder how planned obsolescence plays into this though. If every two years your phone is going to become dog slow or is not getting updates anymore you will have to upgrade. Good old days of Windows where you could run the same hardware for 3 different OS releases and upgrade the CPU/GPU for the 4th one! :(
- thaumasiotes 11y agoI have a Nexus 4 which is experiencing battery swelling. Apparently that's a common problem for them. I don't think, though, that it's an example of "planned obsolescence"... I suspect that phone performance multiple years out just isn't a design consideration, overlooked in a way similar to what was going on in the stylized "real estate prices can't drop" belief model. When it's not considered, it's pretty likely to be terrible. When people start keeping their phones for several years, they'll get upset about aging issues, and graceful aging will become a design consideration.
- blinkingled 11y agoYeah for the prices they are selling the Nexus/Moto G type devices it makes somewhat sense that durability beyond 2 years wasn't their design concern. Still leaves open the part about software updates and slowdowns due to updates. Apple for e.g. has better hardware quality than most but the slow downs due to major OS updates and withholding features from older devices definitely helps them with people upgrading every two years.