If this one will really be this easy to repair, we might finally once again get a phone that doesn't completely fall apart after around 3 years of use.
> MURICA
Yeah, looks pretty good. However I took a look if it also provides a mainboard replacement, like https://frame.work does. That would have been even cooler.
> phones get thrown away, because the battery gets inflated, the great quality charging port that always gets all wiggly after a year or so of use, the random display cracks that happen and make you find out that for the price of their repair, you can get a whole new phone and all that stuff [โฆ]
I have been using iPhones since the iPhone 3G, and those things you mentioned have happened **zero** times. I use my iPhones for 2-3 years, and then either trade them in, or hand them downโthey are in perfect usable state. I understand everyone doesn't want to spend money every 2-3 years on a phone, though.
A Fairphone has no appeal to me. Well, also any phone running Android has no appeal to me, but I digress ๐.
Everyone carries its own cross, right? ๐คฃ Enjoy your phone, and aim for happiness. The rest is just crumbs.
> on team Android since version 2.2
LOL. Kids these days. You are only 1 year older than my kid ๐!
I had an Android G1, from T-Mo, the first Android smartphone. I had had other Android phones after that too, including a few Pixels. You need to use the platform to hate it, otherwise is silly, baseless, hate ๐ .
I just always thought they were really overpriced for what they were and way too restrictive, as I've been sideloading apps since that very first Android phone.
Removing the headphone jack was just wrong and I've decided I'll never buy any smart device without it (maybe except watches), because it's all done to push wireless headphones and it's bullshit. We all know the jack can fit in there, if they actually cared about what they were making.
The fact they added more ports to Macbooks and upgraded to a more professional sound card makes me think that they are starting to realize their mistake and might actually make their phones usable for more people again in the future. ๐ค
Also on a side note, fuck the Apple emoji people. I can forgive many things, but your dog is just ugly, to the point where I'm forced to use the fox emoji and whoever made MeMoji a thing should be tried for crimes against the art community as a whole! They're not modern art, they're not even art and I'm forced to see them presented as art in public and I hate all those companies, pushing them down my throat with the passion that words cannot describe.
> Apple emoji people. I can forgive many things, but your dog
Oh?! I have never used the dog emoji. Letโs see:
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All those come up when I search for dog.
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You can call me biased, because they chose a shiba, but even that fact aside, I think they just look better.
> You can call me biased
Yah, dog, youโre biased. ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
I could have also confused it with Twitters version of the second one, but let's not get into that.
The first dog emoji and Animoji is just a weird pear shaped abomination and while the last one isn't that bad either, it blends in with the dark backgrounds and German shepherds are obviously better than passable generic black doggo. ๐
A headphone jack is soon to be legacy, and gone. Wireless earbuds are simply amazing.
Donโt get me wrong my family does have two wireless access points in our home but wireless absolutely **does not** beat fiber optic cable or Cat6e ๐
Donโt get me wrong my family does have two wireless access points in our home but wireless absolutely **does not** beat fiber optic cable or Cat6e ๐
> Donโt get me wrong my family does have two wireless access points in our home but wireless absolutely does not beat fiber optic cable or Cat6e
Not yet, right. It is just a matter of time.
All 20 devices in our house are wireless. The only wired device is my Synology, and the cable modem, of course.
Also no one really puts stuff on floppys and most CDs with software or games are backed up online.
Headphone jack is so tiny and easy to implement, people were able to add it back to their iPhones without making them any bigger, proving Apples was dishonest when arguing that it can no longer fit.
Also while there are somewhat usable wireless headphones (for the price of seven or more usable wired ones) they still have a battery that'll go to shit after a few years and they are still worst for music listening according to most (or at best similar) and have a higher latency.
I have problems with wired headphones too, as them making the cables nonreplaceable and fragile is just a scummy way to make you have to throw away a perfectly fine pair of headphones that's all good (and that they often won't even service), but the solution to that problem is better wired headphones and not going wireless!