When the phone industry runs out of innovation, they bring back old tech like flip phones. What next? Physical buttons/keyboards? How about longer battery life? Oh wait, that requires real innovation, time, and money.

@nixCraft I wouldn't call anything in the phone industry innovation. Its just more enshitification with each update

I cannot think of a useful feature added to phones in the last 10 years except maybe fingerprint unlock

We don't need AI, huge camera warts, folding screens, voice assistants, everything in the cloud, multiple versions of the same app and certainly not ads and trackers built in to everything

We are at a point of fighting with our tech just to make it somewhat more usable