I’d love to see phones transformed into a platform of components that can be swapped, repaired, and maintained individually rather than having to toss the whole phone if one little piece of it breaks.
there was a company/group that attempted that but of course it got no traction because it’s necessary that we spend 800-2k on new phone every year even though they barely change from year to year.
For a brief moment in time, there was Project Ara which never launched, because what you said. Fucking capitalism.
could be. I dont remember much I just saw it on a kickstarter somewhere at some point and thought “that’d be cool if only there weren’t serious pressures from tech companies to do the exact opposite.”
I mean they are if you have the tools and knowledge. Street vendors in Shenzhen will upgrade your iPhone’s memory infront of you and update the OS accordingly.
That’s not a platform though - I mean a system of design and physical standards so that the average person could disconnect a component with nothing more than a phillips head screwdriver. Something that brings that minimum knowledge bar low enough for average people. Getting those tiny NAND memory modules to resolder correctly is fucking hard, even for folks who work on electronics for a living, and requires a fuck load of specialized hardware
