• @AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    2010: We want bigger batteries, they give us colorful phones

    2015 We want bigger batteries, they give us 1mm thinner phones

    2020 We want bigger batteries, they give us 5 cameras

    2025 We want bigger batteries, they give us AI

    Phones are a great example of the utter failure of capitalism to address what people actually need and want.

    • @Zerthax@reddthat.com
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      4620 hours ago

      They also keep taking away features, like removable storage (microSD) and headphone jacks. There’s a few phones that have them, but it gets more difficult to find them as time goes on.

    • CΓΔSΗ ΘVΞΓΓΙDΞ
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      -48 hours ago

      @AbsoluteChicagoDog @Alphane_Moon nobody has been asking for bigger batteries, people already cry about the weight as is. Apple switched to using a titanium frame just to drop a few grams of weight because people were crying about the weight. So, no, people haven’t been asking for bigger batteries, they have been asking for devices that last the day and then some, which we currently have. You also have the ability to recharge your battery to full in about a half 1 🧵

    • @itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com
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      820 hours ago

      Steve Jobs proved that consumers don’t actually know what they want until you tell them. And it’s the manufacturers job to tell them what they want and deliver it.

      Since Apple doesn’t want a bigger battery that means no one gets a bigger battery.

      • ditty
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        1621 hours ago

        More like two batteries for the price of two phones; foldables are still expensive AF

        • Redjard
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          618 hours ago

          Two half-size batteries for the price of three full-size phones coming right up

    • I would like colourful phones back though, they were so much more fun compared to the sea of black/white/grey + ONE option in the blue-purple spectrum we have today.

      Can we get that AND bigger batteries?..bigger colourful batteries even?

      • @Lojcs@lemm.ee
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        41 day ago

        And cameras! Don’t replace 12mp 2x telephotos with 48mp 1x digital zoom cameras pls