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Hardware for smartphones have gotten so good that they can handle all of my core use-cases with ease: texting, web browsing, calling, maps, GPS, photography, et
by foofoo4u 5y ago
Hardware for smartphones have gotten so good that they can handle all of my core use-cases with ease: texting, web browsing, calling, maps, GPS, photography, etc. I don't need the most demanding specs to handle the latest video games and such. The hardware improvements happening every year mean nothing to me. Wow, 20% faster than the previous generation? That's great! But it doesn't impact me because, again, I already have a great performant experience with current specs. Given this, I see no reason why a cell phone shouldn't last ten years as is. Just make battery replacements possible and it should be good to go. Software updates that make the phone sluggish at this point is an excuse for programming laziness as an incentive to continue the churn of giving up your money to the same companies.
- fouric 5y agoI suspect that, after the battery, screens are the next thing to get broken. With a non-repairable phone, all it takes is 1 out of n components for the entire thing to be rendered non-functional.
- heavyset_go 5y agoApp developers largely use new phones that have more, and faster, resources than the phones that most people use. Over time, some apps become slower on older hardware because of the bloat introduced by developers that use fast new phones. That bloat occurs up and down the stack, and at some point perfectly good older phones just can't run the bloat without being really slow or crashing.