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Yes, but who will pay for that? More burden on maintainers -> less maintainers -> more burden on maintainers.
by goohle 5y ago
Yes, but who will pay for that? More burden on maintainers -> less maintainers -> more burden on maintainers.
- southerntofu 5y agoIf phone manufacturers stopped producing 10 models every year and focused on making a single robust one, they would have plenty of resources left for actual maintenance.
- hahamrfunnyguy 5y agoSure, but they're in the business of selling as many phones as possible which means getting you to upgrade every so often. Unless they settle on a business model that allows them to make money from your old phone, I see this continuing.
- gruez 5y ago> Unless they settle on a business model that allows them to make money from your old phone, I see this continuing. ...like apple and its recent focus on services?
- cycomanic 5y agoHonestly why should I care what their business model is, if it is detrimental to users and the environment. That's the whole point of laws, to discourage behaviour that we as society deem undesirable.
- southerntofu 5y agoAnd that's why you can't let the market govern lives, and we have regulations.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y agoPlus one flagship phone neglects the largest portion of the market who want cheaper phones
- kasabali 5y agoThen they should do like Apple did(?) and continue to sell older generations as the low end segment offering. Which should incidentally make sense since they'd be still supporting because of the said law anyway. Another side effect is this may also discourage them from churning pointless new models year after year with minor spec bumps.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y ago> from churning pointless new models year after year with minor spec bumps. They'd never abandon a working business model like that
- ben-schaaf 5y ago> Sure, but they're in the business of selling as many phones as possible which means getting you to upgrade every so often. Indeed they are, but planned obselescence should quite simply be illegal. For sure it'll hurt some businesses, but it's better for everyone else.
- AdrianB1 5y ago"Selling as many phones as possible" allows yearly upgrades, but instead of 10 different models per year they can sell 3 models per year with 3.3x sales of each model. I am looking at Samsung models on the market, they are close to 10, Apple has maybe 2 or 3.
- 908B64B197 5y agoBasically... be more like Apple?
- southerntofu 5y agoHow so? Apple also releases new models almost every year with very dubious quality. I remember some scandals about antennas, and more recently about RF interference with pacemakers, but i'm sure there's a lot more i'm unaware of. Apple prevents users from using the hardware however they please and blocks the bootloader. They don't even give you root on your own phone! Also they're famous for making their products hard to repair. It's hard to find spare parts, hard to find their custom screw heads, and hard to tear everything apart. You can't even remove the battery without tools which is very user-hostile, bad for the environment, AND was a pattern "popularized" by Apple, because if any other hardware manufacturer had dared to do that, they would have sold exactly ZERO phones. All in all, Apple is close to the worst manufacturer i can think of to get inspiration from, although on specific topics (eg. LCD screen solidity) they are definitely not the worst.