• @[email protected]
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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      612 months 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.

      • @TriflingToad
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        Create a problem, sell a solution. It’s so annoying.
        headphone jack -> sell bluetooth headphones
        microSD -> sell cloud storage

      • j.downs :apple_inc:
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        @Zerthax They’ll say they are responding to consumers who “want cloud storage and wireless headphones,” but options are always better, in my opinion.

    • @PainInTheAES
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      *folds phone in half*

      That’s two batteries for the price of one.

      • ditty
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        202 months ago

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

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

    • @[email protected]
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      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?

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      122 months 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.

      • @Sam_Bass
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        jobs was an ass. and smelled like it

        • @[email protected]
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          Nah man, everyone around him must have been smelling something else. He was on the all fruit diet.

          • @Sam_Bass
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            fruit. that explains it

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      @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 🧵