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I would be so pissed off if I were using a phone today from 10-20 years ago… For some small minority of people (who are overrepresented in this forum, but not
by martinky24 2y ago
I would be so pissed off if I were using a phone today from 10-20 years ago…
For some small minority of people (who are overrepresented in this forum, but not in the general population), sure, they’d pull it off and be happy. But there is not mass market appeal here.
Haven’t startups and such tried to create modular, upgradable phones? And have any single one of them taken off with even 0.1% of market share?
- FirmwareBurner 2y ago>I would be so pissed off if I were using a phone today from 10-20 years ago… Phones today evolve at a glacial pace compared to the pace from 20 years ago. So it's a poor argument IMHO. A flagships from 5 years ago (with a fresh battery) is just as usable today as it was when it came out. This wasn't the case 20 years ago.
- Fade_Dance 2y agoOnce you get to the 5+ year timespan you start running into xG transitions, and modularity won't realistically be enough for phones to bypass those leaps (certification alone ensures that). You walked back OPs statement there as well. 5 years is very different than 10-20 years. I'd wager most think that phones designed to last 5 years is perfectly reasonable.
- pcdoodle 2y agoThis is true. We've had all the tools we wanted: GPS, Music, Camera, Web and of course: Phone. If the target lifespan was 10 years, we would reduce consumption by half and double the value for the end user. I think the fact that a good chunk of people are living in their phones, makes it a hard sell but that doesn't mean someone shouldn't step up and do it for the street cred.
- martinky24 2y agoBig difference between 5 years ago and 20 years ago…