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We’re at a point where regular users already have everything they need, from any model in the past few years.
by sk11001 2y ago
We’re at a point where regular users already have everything they need, from any model in the past few years.
- souvlakee 2y agoBefore the iPhone, we thought we already had everything we needed.
- gnatolf 2y agoNah, but phones are commodities by now.
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 2y agoYes but marginal utility curves are a thing.
- theF00l 2y agoSome of us may still feel we had everything we needed before the iPhone!
- mulderc 2y agoNo, no we didn't. Before the iPhone we wanted a device that would be something like a Palm pilot, an iPod, a cell phone, a camera, and give us mobile internet, but it wasn't clear how to do that in a good way. Blackberry was getting there, Pocket PC was interesting, and there were various other mobile devices that had some of the pieces. It wasn't until the iPhone we saw how to put that all together properly.
- gessha 2y agoI think that’s more of a hindsight than a concrete wish people had. Audio player, cell phone and camera were already implemented by “dumbphone” Nokias. I think adding mobile internet was a mistake. I use it all the time but it doesn’t add much to my life. It doesn’t make me more productive but it adds another consumption device.
- mulderc 2y agoI know I wanted mobile internet and was very frustrated with things like WAP at the time. I know that having mobile internet made me more productive. Sure some phones could play music but it was nothing like a dedicated music device, the software and storage were just awful, so you had to have two devices when it was obvious that it should be just one. Something like the iPhone was pretty obviously being desired at the time, we just didn't see how to do it and thought it would be something more like what blackberry and Microsoft were doing.
- massysett 2y agoYears ago I thought mobile Internet didn’t add anything to my life. I bought a smartphone but was skeptical. Then one day I was at the airport waiting in a long check-in line. I got out my Motorola Droid, dug though my email, checked in to the flight, and got out of the line. After that I was convinced of the value of it, and I’m reminded every time I’m standing on the street, waiting for an Uber rather than looking around for a cab.
- vundercind 2y agoI was a long-time holdout on getting a smartphone at all, then on really embracing it. Now I gotta admit, it’s the only computing device I use that really delivers ROI for my everyday life (aside from my work computer, for… work, but that’s not mine). All the rest could vanish and it’d mostly just give me fewer ways to frustratingly waste my time. Phone dies, and I gotta replace it ASAP. Everything important happens on there. A compact sensor package glued to good touchscreen, with an Internet connection, is just too useful.
- ruszki 2y agoI have mobile internet since 2001. Those dumbphones had access to the full internet, not just WAP. Mobile internet was not a mistake, we just started to use it wrongly. It's your choice to not use it to browse internet aimlessly. It's your choice to make yourself available all the time. You can definitely use it how I did for more than a decade before everybody realized what being always online means. It definitely improved my productivity before that, but it's true that the added benefit is about flat in the past decade.
- PhunkyPhil 2y agoVision Pro, I think, is their first generation attempt at tackling this.
- Maximus9000 2y agoAs a regular user, I'd still like 10x optical zoom
- rollcat 2y ago> We’re at a point where regular users already have everything they need [...] We still don't have: - an iPhone SE1-sized device - USB-C on a "medium" (iPhone Mini)-sized device - Touch ID or non-OLED screen on a non-budget device - 3.5mm headphone jack (even after they backtracked on removing most ports from Macbooks) Yeah basically can I just have a 2016 with an updated SoC please.
- mirsadm 2y agoYou and two other people want that. Every time they've released small phones they've not sold well. It's a small but extremely vocal community of people that constantly ask for this stuff.
- jraph 2y agoMany women I know would be interested in a small phone (in part because for some reason clothes makers collectively decided that women should not have big pockets, or any at all, and in part because of smaller hands on average). It's probably not all women, maybe not most, but I can't believe there's not an important market, it seems like a common enough situation.
- fragmede 2y agoThe corollary to women's clothes have no pocket is that women have purses, which are often large enough to hold a bigger phone.
- rollcat 2y agoWell, don't you find this situation quite sexist? I'm not a woman, but I know many who 1. refuse to carry a purse; 2. are deeply unsatisfied with trends in clothing such as small pockets (and no they can't just wear men's clothes because women's bodies are shaped differently); 3. whose hands are too small to comfortably use a large (branded as "normal") or even medium (branded as "mini") phone. There's a billion other ways women are being discriminated against every day. But yeah, it doesn't sell.
- egypturnash 2y agoI have everything I need with a 5s. The only thing making me ponder updates is shit like “hi the new T-mobile app requires a newer version of iOS than is available for your phone”. Web still works though.