Re:10 Year Smartphone
by lowbloodsugar on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:34PM
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>Buying one ten-year repairable phone results in you paying for one CPU, one baseband modem, one display driver, ..., ...and two batteries.
Which is it? I need to be able to replace everything or just the battery?
Is there a problem with replacing batteries in current phones? The free phone I got from AT&T came with the battery separate, so that one is fine. I have had third parties replace batteries in iPhones.
>but those come with severe freedom and privacy restrictions
Ironically, I find the opposite is true, because my freedoms and privacy are not violated by Apple, but by the shitware you find on Android phones. And if you mean the "freedom" to choose between paying Apple or Epic, well I prefer the freedom to choose a phone that just works. If you value the "freedom" of paying Epic, then you have the freedom to buy an Android phone. But you don't really want Freedom, you want what you want to apply to everyone else. I choose Apple. You don't have to. Demanding that my preference be eliminated is the antithesis of Freedom.
>their devices are infamously non-repairable
non-repairable by others. I've had iPhones repaired by Apple several times. Like the Epic issue, you could buy an Android phone which would meet all your requirements, but you want an Apple phone, and then complain that it doesn't have the "freedoms" of an Android phone. You seem unable to see that the very reasons why you want the Apple phone are a direct result of the policies you complain about. Put the other way, the reasons you don't want an Android are because they have "Freedom" that allows malware to proliferate, or are "repairable" but manufacturing tolerances caused by having to fit multiple parts from multiple vendors means things break or disconnect or you get a bad batch, and the assembler can't support upgrades to the new OS because it's just too expensive to support all the different combinations of driver binaries, so old, unpatched Android for you forever.
Make your 10 year phone. The company wont be around in 10 years and you'll have a rooted virus fest or a brick. The planet wont be around in 10 years, but fuck me, you'll have done your part right? Look at me and my ten friends! There's gigatons of CO2 to support the internet and mobile phone network, but I replaced my mobile phone battery instead of buying a new phone!
Which is it? I need to be able to replace everything or just the battery?
Is there a problem with replacing batteries in current phones? The free phone I got from AT&T came with the battery separate, so that one is fine. I have had third parties replace batteries in iPhones.
>but those come with severe freedom and privacy restrictions
Ironically, I find the opposite is true, because my freedoms and privacy are not violated by Apple, but by the shitware you find on Android phones. And if you mean the "freedom" to choose between paying Apple or Epic, well I prefer the freedom to choose a phone that just works. If you value the "freedom" of paying Epic, then you have the freedom to buy an Android phone. But you don't really want Freedom, you want what you want to apply to everyone else. I choose Apple. You don't have to. Demanding that my preference be eliminated is the antithesis of Freedom.
>their devices are infamously non-repairable
non-repairable by others. I've had iPhones repaired by Apple several times. Like the Epic issue, you could buy an Android phone which would meet all your requirements, but you want an Apple phone, and then complain that it doesn't have the "freedoms" of an Android phone. You seem unable to see that the very reasons why you want the Apple phone are a direct result of the policies you complain about. Put the other way, the reasons you don't want an Android are because they have "Freedom" that allows malware to proliferate, or are "repairable" but manufacturing tolerances caused by having to fit multiple parts from multiple vendors means things break or disconnect or you get a bad batch, and the assembler can't support upgrades to the new OS because it's just too expensive to support all the different combinations of driver binaries, so old, unpatched Android for you forever.
Make your 10 year phone. The company wont be around in 10 years and you'll have a rooted virus fest or a brick. The planet wont be around in 10 years, but fuck me, you'll have done your part right? Look at me and my ten friends! There's gigatons of CO2 to support the internet and mobile phone network, but I replaced my mobile phone battery instead of buying a new phone!