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A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades (www.straitstimes.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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SO. MUCH. THIS.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have had watertight user serviceable with external batteries handheld amateur radios for decades. Your arguments are baloney. Phones are only this way because manufacturers want them to be this way.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

but they are nowhere close to as thin, and nowhere close to the same complexity