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"I'd rather make improvements to speed, power consumption, size, and cost" I think those are optimizations that you care about - but not the average consumer.
by Aqueous 13y ago
"I'd rather make improvements to speed, power consumption, size, and cost"
I think those are optimizations that you care about - but not the average consumer. We're getting to the point where phones of the same price pretty much universally operate within a standard of performance, give or take a margin of error, and can run a day or longer without recharge. At a certain point users stop caring about further optimizations and start caring more about features. And that's where modularity gives a huge pay-off.
- xerophtye 13y agowith the whole debate about "who wants more power/speed? They are already fast enough", i feel we are missing out on one crucial point: Our perception of hardware performance is driven by the software running on it The only time you start feeling your tech isn't fast enough is when new software comes out that is even more resource hungry. The PC's running Tomb Raider 1 seemed fast enough at the time, but can you imagine them running even apps now? Even with smart phones them selves, iPhone 3 was great! until people started making apps that needed iPhone 4 level of resources and you started feeling your iPhone 3 was too weak... So I think we're always gonna want more power. What's the point of a modular phone if it can't run any of the latest apps? PS: I still think a modular phone would be insanely awesome! But just giving my 2 cents