• @dynamojoe
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    -11 year ago

    removing things is also removing manufacturing complexity and reducing the number of points of failure. If it costs $0.13 to add a headphone jack, but an increasingly smaller number of your customers use it, eventually there’s a tipping point where removing the feature is worth the grief the company will get from the noisy minority. Your manufacturing run of a million devices just got many thousands of dollars cheaper. Same with removable batteries, SIM slots, and CD drives in laptops, etc.

    • @wahming
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      61 year ago

      Leave removable batteries out of that list, that was about planned obsolescence

    • @makatwork
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      31 year ago

      So now when it fails you need to buy a whole new phone instead of a replacement part. Everybody wins, except the consumer

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      We as customers don’t give a fuck about manufacturing complexity. It’s not like the products get cheaper when they remove this shit.