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Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) (マリウス.com)
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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My favourite argument for these things is always: but it has to be water tight. It has to be aesthetic and thin. Okay cool, then make phones for people who use them as a fashion statement or throw them into the water and make one that you can just crack open. I know it's something completely different but my first phone was an alcatel where you could take out the battery and throw in 4 AA's in case you ran out of juice.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Re: But it has to be watertight, so it can't have any ports or buttons or doors or hatches or a replaceable battery!!!

    Uh-huh. Sure.

    Feel free to trot this one out the next time some glassy-eyed Apple apologist is making that argument at you. That one annoys the shit out of me, too. This has been a solved problem for thirty years. Probably longer.

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