Making them increasingly difficult to hold ("but design!" They cry) so you "accidently" have to buy a new one again.
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2024
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we need to make open source wireless communications infrastructure.
how?
idk the FCC is the major block as long as it's funded by telecom
HAM radio have been around for decades.
People don't care. They buy whatever marketing tells them to buy. Lines around the block for the first iPhone when it was vastly inferior to the other phones of the day. Couldn't even use custom ringtones. Knew then that people really are sheep.
It's not about caring. It's the lack of choice.
Telecoms lock out phones and say "To use our network, you must use x."
Nope. ATT at the time the iPhone came out didn't have a whitelist. Any unlocked phone with the right radios could be used. Which is why I used ATT for a decade or so. Then the 5G bullshit came out and suddenly ATT wouldn't activate a phone unless they blessed it first. So now I'm on Mint which is way cheaper and I can still use any phone that's compatible. No whitelist.
Nothing was superior to the iPhone when it came out. It successfully married multiple types of mobile device into one device. Not even ashamed to admit that while several other devices did the individual things it did better, nothing brought them together like that.
That said, modern smartphones are a bit ridiculous and the idea of spending $1200 every two years on a phone should be revolting to people. iPhone or Samsung, stop fucking doing this sheeple.
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Who tf used an IR blaster? And what sane person misses the flimsy plastic back on phones with removable batteries? They didn't cut a hole in your screen, they removed a half inch of dead useless space at the top and bottom and gave you more usable real estate while also cranking the resolution and refresh rate to 11. Buttons? WHAT BUTTONS EXACTLY? The single enormous one that ate up nearly 25% of the phone and all it did was GO BACK?! And don't even mention the cameras. Your five cameras you didn't ask for are why you can film yourself in 4K doing whatever brain dead tiktok fad you saw on your enormous HD screen, and why you can pretend you had front row seats to a concert you sat in the nosebleeds for.
Headphone jack is fair, no argument. I use Bluetooth headphones but I get the rationale. Everything else is stupid.
*laughs in Fairphone 3
I don't understand why everyone hates the notch, or especially the hole punch camera now. You could just disable the pixels next to the notch going back to a regular screen, and if you don't it's only extra screen space. Even more so with the hole punch. Why more screen bad?
Because front camera is not just a feature I'm forced to pay for, despite never using it once in my life, but now it also makes my experience shittier by adding a hole in my screen. I hate that.
Who even used IR?
I did. I was able to control the AC and any tvs just using my phone and it was glorious.