Screw that...👎
I don't see the need to get a new phone 📱 every year.
Get over it: you need to upgrade your phone every year now. I prove it
@randynose Lol, I've had my OnePlus One for 5 years, and it'll probably last at least one more, maybe 2 or 3.
So, that's 0.19 per day, 0.13 if I keep it two more years.
What do people do with their phones to need the new model??
@Matter @randynose I just got a Pixel 4a after having my OnePlus 6t for over 2 years, longest I've had a phone. Changed the charging port and antennas out. After last opening, changing the charging port, I spidered the back screen. Antennas went again and if I would have taken off the back screen again I would not have gotten it back on again. Only reason I got a new one device
What's needed is forcing manufacturers to stop providing devices that can't be repaired, starting with the battery. Another annoying thing is the impossibility to upgrade the OS on most Android phones.
I know in the States the idea that "the free market will regulate itself" is popular, but it simply doesn't work, the evidence is there for everyone to see. 🙄
@obi @Matter
@normand @Matter @randynose won't ever happen. If your phones aren't outdated or break, their profits won't be high. What's the alternative to the free market tho? Gov't regulation? They will just regulate them into prices of shit
The EU has proven time and again that government regulation is effective in reining in big companies. It's just that the US political system has been bought off by the lobbies, and the population brainwashed to think this is normal.
@Matter @randynose
@normand @Matter @randynose OK, so how is the cell phone industry better in the EU? Seems the same
@obi @normand @randynose thank the EU for having one charging port instead of a gajillion. We wouldn't have seen the end of that for a long time otherwise.
More recently, in the EU, you can choose your search engine on setup.
@Matter @normand @randynose anybody can choose their search engine, and its not hard. I don't get what you mean about the charging port. Sorry, I'm confused
@obi @normand @randynose What is possible isn't very relevant, only the default really matters. The EU forced Google to make users choose instead of defaulting to Google.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
Do you not remember the time before this, when every single phone had another weird proprietary plug?
@Matter @normand @randynose I remember. Not like their is just one connector now. Would be great if their was just one, but most phones come with one and nowadays its not like they don't last forever. I'm no fan of Google, but I'm not a fan of telling them they have to give users the setup option. Breaking up Google Search or limiting in broadly I would be fine with. More importantly, I wish they would focus on data collection over search selection. At least you know tour searching with Google. Most people don't realize or believe they are sending their data to Google/Apple hundreds of times an hour, and its much harder to stop that than just select a different search engine
