the market did not care about jacks, removeable batteries, sd cards, and everyone just bought the new shiny thing. it is your fault, not the manufacturers.
What are you talking about? People screamed about every one of those things, but they got rid of them anyway. Nobody cares what the consumer wants.
The only objective is to make the McGuffin profitable. Functionality, consumer satisfaction, reliability, repairability, flexibility, etc. aren’t relevant. The rubes will buy what we offer them, or they get nothing.
What market. Nobody asked them to remove features.
They all pretty much unilaterraly axed these features around the same time so your “choice” in the high-end segment went from having these things to not having these things, at all, in the entire segment, within the timespan of like a year.
So your choice back then was to take the hit or buy a mid-range phone that still packed those features. But it’s not like these things are the only thing that matter. Phones are complex devices.
Buying lower end you forego other stuff like memory(speed) processing power, camera quality, build quality, screen quality, software support period, etc.
These things didn’t stop because there’s no market for them.
These things stopped because they can get away with removing them to make more money selling you repairs, their own storage variations and bluetooth gear.
You don’t get rid of a car because you don’t like the buttons on your dashboard, if the rest of the car is up to your demands.
People now having phones without headphone jacks or sd card trays doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t have preferred otherwise.
When the market has no options while people still need to replace old or broken things, people are forced to buy that stuff. Then the market says people want that stuff. They’re controlling the whole thing.
Best way to combat it is buy as little as possible. Which thanks to economic collapse, it is happening organically.
the market did not care about jacks, removeable batteries, sd cards, and everyone just bought the new shiny thing. it is your fault, not the manufacturers.
What are you talking about? People screamed about every one of those things, but they got rid of them anyway. Nobody cares what the consumer wants.
The only objective is to make the McGuffin profitable. Functionality, consumer satisfaction, reliability, repairability, flexibility, etc. aren’t relevant. The rubes will buy what we offer them, or they get nothing.
What market. Nobody asked them to remove features.
They all pretty much unilaterraly axed these features around the same time so your “choice” in the high-end segment went from having these things to not having these things, at all, in the entire segment, within the timespan of like a year.
So your choice back then was to take the hit or buy a mid-range phone that still packed those features. But it’s not like these things are the only thing that matter. Phones are complex devices. Buying lower end you forego other stuff like memory(speed) processing power, camera quality, build quality, screen quality, software support period, etc.
These things didn’t stop because there’s no market for them. These things stopped because they can get away with removing them to make more money selling you repairs, their own storage variations and bluetooth gear.
You don’t get rid of a car because you don’t like the buttons on your dashboard, if the rest of the car is up to your demands. People now having phones without headphone jacks or sd card trays doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t have preferred otherwise.
When the market has no options while people still need to replace old or broken things, people are forced to buy that stuff. Then the market says people want that stuff. They’re controlling the whole thing.
Best way to combat it is buy as little as possible. Which thanks to economic collapse, it is happening organically.