Smartphone design has been getting worse and worse while the industry itself has become an environmental and humanitarian nightmare, writes Phineas Harper.
Ned Ludd may be long dead, he may never even have existed at all, but he was right – and it’s time we started listening.
What do you want? Cpus are as fast as needed for phones and Moore’s law is dead. Cameras are restricted by the physical limits of optics. Everyone is rightly making fun of ai being put in everything.
Tech plateaus. You can’t break physics with money.
Pretty sure they said what they want in the second half of the sentence. Slow the product release cycle to match the pace of technological progress. Hard to imagine it happening in a market-driven world, but a slower release cycle would incentivize more affordable, longer supported products without having to change anything about physics
But as someone else said we got that with an increase of support from a low of 18 months for the 2011 Google Galaxy Nexus to 7 years with the current Google Pixel 8.
It would be worse if they made minor fixes to the screen, cpu and camera but kept calling it the Pixel 5. Consumers wouldn’t know what they’re getting. We had that nonsense with game consoles where you had to look at serial numbers to know if your Xbox had been fixed.
Re: “Fail to break ground.”
What do you want? Cpus are as fast as needed for phones and Moore’s law is dead. Cameras are restricted by the physical limits of optics. Everyone is rightly making fun of ai being put in everything.
Tech plateaus. You can’t break physics with money.
Pretty sure they said what they want in the second half of the sentence. Slow the product release cycle to match the pace of technological progress. Hard to imagine it happening in a market-driven world, but a slower release cycle would incentivize more affordable, longer supported products without having to change anything about physics
But as someone else said we got that with an increase of support from a low of 18 months for the 2011 Google Galaxy Nexus to 7 years with the current Google Pixel 8.
It would be worse if they made minor fixes to the screen, cpu and camera but kept calling it the Pixel 5. Consumers wouldn’t know what they’re getting. We had that nonsense with game consoles where you had to look at serial numbers to know if your Xbox had been fixed.