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> instead of fixing after a year Back in those days phones would effectively become obsolete after a year or two anyway (from the perspective of a significant
by Wytwwww 2y ago
> instead of fixing after a year
Back in those days phones would effectively become obsolete after a year or two anyway (from the perspective of a significant number of consumers) so I'm not sure that mattered too much.
Also there were plenty of Android phones with replaceable batteries available for years, the market just didn't value that compared to the visual and technical design improvements that weren't compatible with user-replaceable batteries.
Also modern batteries are generally a lot better.
> Prime example of that is when apple removed the ESC key in favor of a touchbar
How? Apple tried that, it failed, they recognized their mistake and reverted to normal keyboards i.e. it's an actual case of the free market working as expected and the opposite of what you're claiming. Also how do you think Apple could have made more money by adding the touchbar? Surely it's significantly more expensive than an extra row of keys...
Of course it didn't stop Dell going down the same path a few years latter due to who knows what reasons...
- cryptonym 2y agoIf it was for the "free market" you wouldn't have usb-c at Apple.
- Wytwwww 2y agoSure, of course it doesn't always work. Did I imply otherwise? Especially for minor annoyances, design optimizations/flaws like USB-C, glued batteries, no side-loading etc. that don't outweigh the other advantages that specific product has over it's competitors for the overwhelming major of consumer. I personally found Apple sticking to lighting to be a minor inconvenience at most but it might have been different for other people.
- doublepg23 2y agoThe EU demand gave them a deadline more than anything. It was pretty clear they were moving to USB-C at some point.