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As already pointed out no, not everyone wants a case. But even those that do can and do choose different cases. On my work phones I often use battery cases beca
by simonh 4y ago
As already pointed out no, not everyone wants a case. But even those that do can and do choose different cases. On my work phones I often use battery cases because I use them so heavily. Having that option is useful flexibility.
Cases are also fashion statements for some people. Mandating bigger bulkier phones again forces trade offs on customers, making decisions for us you have no business making.
As for not knowing what I’ll need in future, I’ve been using smartphones for 14 years, I think I’ve got a pretty good idea by now what features I value.
As for SD card slots and replaceable batteries, phones with those features were common fur years and years, but the fact is the market simply didn’t care. If they were genuinely valued product differentiators those models would have been rewarded and the features would have survived. They didn’t because the fact is they offer marginal utility to most people.
Largely the products I want to use are being made, thank you very much. Please leave them alone.
- Certhas 4y agoNobody was suggesting mandating bulkier phones. The argument was only that in this case what a majority of (or at least many) people want is not actually being made. That is not surprising, it's just capitalism and market failure.
- simonh 4y agoHow do non capitalist systems fix this?
- schwartzworld 4y ago> If they were genuinely valued product differentiators those models would have been rewarded Can't vote with your wallet for a product that nobody is offering. But you're half right. When my mom buys a phone, she doesn't think about those things, but when she calls me and says "my phone is full what do I do?" I would previously have advised her to pop in an SD card, but that option no longer exists.
- Certhas 4y agoIn the economic literature this is sometimes modelled as time inconsistent preferences. A well known source of market failures. This thread is full of what one might call the efficient market fallacy "this is what manufacturers provide, thus it must be what people really want".
- simonh 4y agoIt’s full of people like me who know what they want, and it’s not the bulky, feature encrusted structurally compromised things others here want to make the only legal option. I’m sorry that they don’t have the products on the market they want to buy, but is it really reasonable to ‘fix’ that by making the ones I and many others like and do buy illegal?