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An alternative is that every single phone looks the same. Black or grey square case with a touch screen. There's literally nothing to design or make interesting

by agilob 4y ago

An alternative is that every single phone looks the same. Black or grey square case with a touch screen. There's literally nothing to design or make interesting, just every second model change rounded corners to sharp corners and call it "new design".

Antrikshy 4y ago
Hardware may be less interesting, but the software is way more dynamic than ever.
- agilob 4y ago
  Yes, when opening Google Play I'm presented with Games, Apps and Books. Games are designed by psychologists to keep us engaged with unnatural colours, actions and injecting ourselves with dopamine every 30 seconds, and apps? Apps also contains games, but also sponsored content, like I don't remember for how long Disney+ ad was there... since April at least. Very interesting. The other software? All my installed apps have updates about at least twice per month, but I never notice anything changing. Bugs aren't fixed, performance isn't improved, but now my banking app can access my location. Old phones had no "dynamic software" updates, everything worked and never needed updates or upgrades, unless. We have throwaway hardware that looks the same, made with throwaway software where updates make no difference. We have fewer choices now. It's just Android vs iPhone, both look the same and copy each other design and functionality, both in hardware and software. We had games that were hard and required some planning on paper and hardware that was interesting and unique.
theriddlr 4y ago
Second-hand phone shops now show the back of the phone in the display case because they all look the same from the front.
gardenhedge 4y ago
Well when companies try do something different - like a notch - they get shit on these days
eternityforest 4y ago
As well they should, because making them look more interesting would be a waste of effort, and in some cases a waste of money like glass backs. What matters is the rugged case selection, but unfortunately they don't seem to focus on that as much as they could.

by agilob 4y ago

Antrikshy 4y ago

Hardware may be less interesting, but the software is way more dynamic than ever.

agilob 4y ago
Yes, when opening Google Play I'm presented with Games, Apps and Books. Games are designed by psychologists to keep us engaged with unnatural colours, actions and injecting ourselves with dopamine every 30 seconds, and apps? Apps also contains games, but also sponsored content, like I don't remember for how long Disney+ ad was there... since April at least. Very interesting. The other software? All my installed apps have updates about at least twice per month, but I never notice anything changing. Bugs aren't fixed, performance isn't improved, but now my banking app can access my location. Old phones had no "dynamic software" updates, everything worked and never needed updates or upgrades, unless. We have throwaway hardware that looks the same, made with throwaway software where updates make no difference. We have fewer choices now. It's just Android vs iPhone, both look the same and copy each other design and functionality, both in hardware and software. We had games that were hard and required some planning on paper and hardware that was interesting and unique.

theriddlr 4y ago

Second-hand phone shops now show the back of the phone in the display case because they all look the same from the front.

gardenhedge 4y ago

Well when companies try do something different - like a notch - they get shit on these days

eternityforest 4y ago

As well they should, because making them look more interesting would be a waste of effort, and in some cases a waste of money like glass backs. What matters is the rugged case selection, but unfortunately they don't seem to focus on that as much as they could.