Col3d ago
Apple is preparing to fold the iPhone — whether or not anyone asked for it. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the device will open into an iPad mini–sized screen and pair luxe hardware with a sleeker design meant to make foldables feel stylish.
If it lands, it could amount to Apple’s most significant iPhone redesign in years — but is that enough to make you part with a fresh $2K (approx £1500)?
Show threadPēteris Krišjānis3d ago
@kibcol1049 they try to find justification to increase price and thus margin.
Show threadCol3d ago
@peteriskrisjanis I've never owned an i-phone. A friend loves them but has to keep buying a new one every year as the built in obsoletion kicks in. Despite the fact that he only uses the main features which are now available for a quarter of the price in android phones. Still -he's happy, poorer but happy! 🤭
Show threadCarolyn2d ago
@kibcol1049 @peteriskrisjanis Built-in obsolesce is in the human. I used a 4s until two years ago, when 3G got turned off. No one needs a new phone every year. That's either having a lot of extra money or a phone plan that keeps customers updated with new phones, or really into FMO, addicted to new tech.
Show threadJohn Abbe (aka Slow)

@CStamp @kibcol1049 @peteriskrisjanis Average phone replacement time is over two years, but that's still wildly short, especially given many of the core tech bits can last for centuries, or longer.*

What do phone & computer design look like if you don't assume it must get better every year? Chip design, etc.? What radio communications tech would it make sense to establish as a baseline, intending to keep its systems going for a century, or just indefinitely?

#permaculture #solarpunk #design

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Show threadCarolyn1d ago
@slowenough @kibcol1049 If it does what you need it to do, you don't need to upgrade. When it doesn't, you do. @peteriskrisjanis
Show threadMensch, Marina1d ago
@slowenough
#sustainability
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE1d ago
@slowenough @CStamp @kibcol1049 @peteriskrisjanis I buy a new phone when the battery is dead and no replacements (apart from utterly crap no-name Chinese rip-offs) are available.
Show threadSteve Holden1d ago

@slowenough @CStamp @kibcol1049 @peteriskrisjanis
Before that idea became acceptable you first have to persuade people there is such a thing as ENOUGH.

While the propaganda for the opposition has an 80- or 90-year lead. I fear change will be relatively sudden and hugely disruptive, though I'd prefer to find a better way,

Show threadJohn Abbe (aka Slow)1d ago

@holdenweb @CStamp @kibcol1049 @peteriskrisjanis Yup. <taps username>

Fortunately, enough is a pure idea, it occurs spontaneously and without instruction. :-)

There are many folks who understand and focus on what is enough, some grassroots & free/open/gifting all the way, others with investors and viable business plans - e.g., Framework.

What can we learn from things like Apple's Neo?.Word is It's more repairable. Not high end, not trying to be skinniest.

What incentivizes long-term design?