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We’ve reached the photoshop moment in phones a while ago now where what was offered probably 5-8+ years back was all anyone really needed or wanted. Now it’s j
by evo_9 3y ago
We’ve reached the photoshop moment in phones a while ago now where what was offered probably 5-8+ years back was all anyone really needed or wanted. Now it’s just more and more features nobody asked for or uses.
I honestly put off upgrading my phone as long as possible now, they’re like tires for my car - I need em but man I hate hate hate replacing them and spending the money.
- calvinmorrison 3y agoThe features I want? Universal video calls to any phone. Larger attachments.
- chemmail 3y agoHow about just all day battery life.
- bee_rider 3y agoI hang on to my phone as long as I can, although mostly out of laziness and cheapness. It would be nice if phones could converge to absorb laptops somehow. Fold or roll out maybe?
- parker_mountain 3y agoiPhones receive 5 years of support from when the device was _last sold by Apple_. Functionally, that means that buying a new iPhone when it's released will mean that it receives 7 years of OS updates, including security fixes to the baseband and other hardware. I was using an iPhone 8 until last year, and it was functionally fine until I replaced it. This is one area where Apple is unambiguously leading the pack on mainstream manufacturers. The iPhone 14 is winning accolades for its (relative) ease of repair-ability, as well. It is not inconceivable that if you buy an iPhone 14 today, it will receive software and hardware support until 2029 - or even 2030 if you're lucky.
- throwaway81523 3y agoBut people upgrade their iphones instead of replacing the glued in battery. Make the battery user replaceable with no tools or at most a small screwdriver, dammit.
- jeffbee 3y agoNobody wants a phone where the battery flies across the street if you drop it. Most normal people are satisfied with the fact that Apple will replace any iPhone battery with a new one for $49 while you wait.
- throwaway81523 3y agohttps://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-replacement https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-replacement doesn't work for me (doesn't show the estimate) but I thought it was $100+ and took a while. I did a DIY replacement for a 1st gen SE once and it was an unbelievable amount of work, plus many tiny little breakable parts had to be removed, the phone had to be heated to soften the glue, etc. Batteries don't fly across the street if you drop a phone: that is a dumb rationalization. Same with flashlights and other portable devices with batteries. If you insist, have the battery cover held down by a screw. There, no flying off.
- walterbell 3y agoBlackberry and Nokia phones with replaceable batteries allowed hot-swap of a fully charged battery. Zero mobile downtime for charging, without requiring gigantic batteries for an excuse of gigantic screens. They were built like tanks and would not fall apart, battery or elsewhere, when dropped.
- jeffbee 3y agoThat is completely false. Dropping your blackberry and watching the battery cover skitter across the street and fall down a sewer grate was a common experience in the blackberry era.
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- deltree7 3y agoLatest phones have the best cameras. Just because you are not a social/traveler/visual collector doesn't mean the rest of the world isn't.
- m463 3y agoLatest phone cameras have gone too far processing the images and there's no off switch (check the photo forums). Also new formats like HEIC and HEVC confuse things. Also, personally I don't like face unlock.
- eviks 3y agoJust like with photoshop, there was never such a period, like, who wouldn't want a battery lasting one week 8 years ago???