Also, a lot of people are not aware that the PC world was even more wild west before this standardization than the current state of smartphone.
I do hope this standardization would come soon. You’d with all this collection knowledge the humanity has, people would come up with a more uniform solution…
The problem here isn’t knowledge, but incentives. Like, someone could design and start manufacturing a phone with very standard stuff, but it wouldn’t sell except for a dozen enthusiasts. Even on PC, Linux isn’t as widely used as Windows on consumer hardware, as there’s no focus on user experience. For a phone like that to work, they would need to solve a problem most other phones don’t solve.
PC standardization took a few decades but there were not many adopters initially (compared to the total population) - mobile is different, basically everyone everywhere has a mobile device, so standardization will likely be much faster
Also, a lot of people are not aware that the PC world was even more wild west before this standardization than the current state of smartphone.
I do hope this standardization would come soon. You’d with all this collection knowledge the humanity has, people would come up with a more uniform solution…
The problem here isn’t knowledge, but incentives. Like, someone could design and start manufacturing a phone with very standard stuff, but it wouldn’t sell except for a dozen enthusiasts. Even on PC, Linux isn’t as widely used as Windows on consumer hardware, as there’s no focus on user experience. For a phone like that to work, they would need to solve a problem most other phones don’t solve.
PC standardization took a few decades but there were not many adopters initially (compared to the total population) - mobile is different, basically everyone everywhere has a mobile device, so standardization will likely be much faster