Better Products Often Fail (and we’re all worse off for it)

Re:Better Products Often Fail (and we’re all worse off for it) by newtritious on Monday September 26, 2022 @04:24PM (#32987869)

> The windows phone was a phone first, and a computer second. It would try to allow you to have access to the phone for as long as possible. Android and iPhone had no native battery saving features at the time, but windows phone did! It was great for those of us who went without power for extended periods of time.

You literally spent half of your comment discussing one feature, and explaining that windows phone was a phone first and a computer second.

That’s why it failed. Smartphones are obviously used as computers almost all the time, and the phone is a legacy feature.

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Re:Better Products Often Fail (and we’re all worse off for it) by withinboredom on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @04:51AM (#32992967)

I would venture that it wasn’t so obvious at the time. I liked that my phone lasted as a phone long into the night (I was usually the only one with a working phone to call a cab). These days, you are correct. I can call a cab from an app in my phone, message support about a package, etc. back in those days though, a phone as a phone was very much a requirement for everyday living.

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Re:Better Products Often Fail (and we’re all worse off for it) by newtritious on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @11:29AM (#32996627)

It was completely obvious at the time that people were buying smartphones because of the computer and not the phone.

Otherwise they wouldn’t have caught on.

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Re:Better Products Often Fail (and we’re all worse off for it) by withinboredom on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @11:59AM (#32997120)

I bought it for the phone, camera and music.

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