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They'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
by userbinator 1y ago
They'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.