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>I'd argue that Microsoft entering the mobile OS market is worse than having a duopoly We need something. I’ve lost all faith in the hardware direction of iPho

>I'd argue that Microsoft entering the mobile OS market is worse than having a duopoly We need something. I’ve lost all faith in the hardware direction of iPhone. The 14 Pro (let alone Pro Max) is an absurd monstrosity. And Google clearly has no interest in innovation beyond copying Apple.

imwillofficial 4y ago
How do you mean? Im curious as to your thoughts
- ramesh31 4y ago
  >How do you mean? Im curious as to your thoughts They've lost any sense of maintaining a cohesive design, or keeping things sleek and convenient. Performance has plateaued to a level of diminishing returns, so the only way they can get people to buy a new phone every year since iPhone 7 is to say "hey we put a bigger camera on it". Product ran free with that mandate, and now we have this abomination: https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/trevor-raab-iphone-14-pro-0086-1663180196.jpg https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/trevor-raab-ipho... I have this recurring fantasy of an alternate history timeline where Steve Jobs never died, and when an engineer brought him the first iPhone 7 prototype, he held it in his hand, flipped it over, felt the camera bump, and said "You're fired. Get rid of the bump". I just refuse to believe he would have allowed this to happen, and I refuse to believe that we can't have good cameras without bumps.
  - imwillofficial 4y ago
    Great points
xen2xen1 4y ago
GP is probably one of the "small phone people" to hazard a guess.
myko 4y ago
> And Google clearly has no interest in innovation beyond copying Apple. I disagree, I think both platforms have copied plenty from one another. I used to jailbreak my iOS devices to get similar functionality to Android. Hasn't been necessary for awhile, I feel like the platforms are near parity now, but claiming one is copying the other (with no reciprocity) seems farfetched.

imwillofficial 4y ago

How do you mean? Im curious as to your thoughts

ramesh31 4y ago
>How do you mean? Im curious as to your thoughts They've lost any sense of maintaining a cohesive design, or keeping things sleek and convenient. Performance has plateaued to a level of diminishing returns, so the only way they can get people to buy a new phone every year since iPhone 7 is to say "hey we put a bigger camera on it". Product ran free with that mandate, and now we have this abomination: https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/trevor-raab-iphone-14-pro-0086-1663180196.jpg https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/trevor-raab-ipho... I have this recurring fantasy of an alternate history timeline where Steve Jobs never died, and when an engineer brought him the first iPhone 7 prototype, he held it in his hand, flipped it over, felt the camera bump, and said "You're fired. Get rid of the bump". I just refuse to believe he would have allowed this to happen, and I refuse to believe that we can't have good cameras without bumps.
- imwillofficial 4y ago
  Great points

xen2xen1 4y ago

GP is probably one of the "small phone people" to hazard a guess.

myko 4y ago

> And Google clearly has no interest in innovation beyond copying Apple. I disagree, I think both platforms have copied plenty from one another. I used to jailbreak my iOS devices to get similar functionality to Android. Hasn't been necessary for awhile, I feel like the platforms are near parity now, but claiming one is copying the other (with no reciprocity) seems farfetched.