• SargTeaPot@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Brought a 8849 tank 2 by unihertz which has a dual Sim card slot with a SD card slot… I don’t understand this trend of removing things from phones

    • dynamojoe@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      removing things is also removing manufacturing complexity and reducing the number of points of failure. If it costs $0.13 to add a headphone jack, but an increasingly smaller number of your customers use it, eventually there’s a tipping point where removing the feature is worth the grief the company will get from the noisy minority. Your manufacturing run of a million devices just got many thousands of dollars cheaper. Same with removable batteries, SIM slots, and CD drives in laptops, etc.

      • wahming@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Leave removable batteries out of that list, that was about planned obsolescence

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        1 year ago

        So now when it fails you need to buy a whole new phone instead of a replacement part. Everybody wins, except the consumer

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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        1 year ago

        We as customers don’t give a fuck about manufacturing complexity. It’s not like the products get cheaper when they remove this shit.