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Do you think they're screwing it in for fun? I'd rather my phone be more robust than worry about unscrewing a couple more screws when I need to replace the bat
by fastball 1y ago
Do you think they're screwing it in for fun?
I'd rather my phone be more robust than worry about unscrewing a couple more screws when I need to replace the battery (hopefully a rare occurrence anyway). I don't know anyone that carried around spare batteries like in that ad, so although a good ad it doesn't really speak to customer usage.
I'd also like my phone to be as-waterproof-as-possible, and am willing to sacrifice a back that comes open without any screws or similar.
- userbinator 1y agoThey're doing it because they don't know better, or are deliberately ignorant to a generation of actually better designs. Waterproofing wasn't a feature people needed before the marketing told them they did.
- fastball 1y agoBefore my phones became waterproof, I lost multiple phones to liquid damage, so the idea that waterproofing is a marketing gimmick is nonsense.
- fragmede 1y agoAh yes, people. The group of users that famously doesn't interact with liquids in their day to day lives and needed to be told that they wanted to be able to spill a drink or soup on their phone and not have it break, or drop it into the toilet, pool, lake or river and not have it break. https://xkcd.com/641/ https://xkcd.com/641/ is true, but smartphones and liquids isn't that.