Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Apple@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoSmartphone buyers meh on AI, care much more about battery life - 9to5Mac9to5mac.comexternal-linkmessage-square147linkfedilinkarrow-up1610arrow-down14
arrow-up1606arrow-down1external-linkSmartphone buyers meh on AI, care much more about battery life - 9to5Mac9to5mac.comAlphane Moon@lemmy.world to Apple@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square147linkfedilink
minus-squareZerthax@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up62arrow-down1·6 months agoThey 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.
minus-squareTriflingToad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·edit-26 months agoCreate a problem, sell a solution. It’s so annoying. headphone jack -> sell bluetooth headphones microSD -> sell cloud storage
minus-squareZerthax@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months ago Create a problem, sell a solution Under the guise of “innovation”
minus-squarewick@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 months agoSony Xperia flagship has both. I think it’s the only Snapdragon 8g3 phone that does.
minus-squarej.downs :apple_inc:@bitbang.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months ago@Zerthax They’ll say they are responding to consumers who “want cloud storage and wireless headphones,” but options are always better, in my opinion.
minus-squareCΓΔSΗ ΘVΞΓΓΙDΞ@moth.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down8·6 months ago@Zerthax @AbsoluteChicagoDog some people just refuse to live in the now and would prefer to stay in 2014. What a shame.🤦🏻♂️
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.
Create a problem, sell a solution. It’s so annoying.
headphone jack -> sell bluetooth headphones
microSD -> sell cloud storage
Late stage capitalism
Under the guise of “innovation”
Sony Xperia flagship has both. I think it’s the only Snapdragon 8g3 phone that does.
@Zerthax They’ll say they are responding to consumers who “want cloud storage and wireless headphones,” but options are always better, in my opinion.
@Zerthax @AbsoluteChicagoDog some people just refuse to live in the now and would prefer to stay in 2014. What a shame.🤦🏻♂️