Re:Two years later, I still miss the headphone port
by pdpi on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @07:06AM
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I don’t much care about a headphone jack on my mobile, but lots of people evidently do care. It’s unambiguously an important feature (even if we don’t personally care for it).
Security updates are, again unambiguously, an important feature. You might not care but plenty of people do, and there’s lots of well-documented reasons why that’s probably the saner choice.
Take two big, important features, and realise you can’t have both at the same time. One of those features used to be ubiquitous, and is still present in most devices, but is being phased out. You’re damned right people who care about both feel their device choices are crippled. I don’t blame them.
Re:Two years later, I still miss the headphone port
by pmezard on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @06:44AM
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Security updates are an optional feature ?
Are security devices optional features for cars (and I am not talking about collection cars or similar niche items) ? They are not in first-world countries.
so, for whatever features you want, there is a phone. there are hundreds of phones. when you start combining them, you are personalizing a phone. products are made for target markets. that's why people customize cars.
get a phone with a jack, put your own android on it, update it when it's updated. done. If you want a large company to make something specifically for you, with the combination of exact features you want - they don't. same for cars. same for coffee makers.