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
nice username lol.
fuck all apple products they’re so goddamn shit.
thanks lmao
i got an iphone 7 when my last phone broke a year ago and the phone is super fucking slow from their updates. apple is a particularly shitty company.
i know phones are worse because they become toxic bricks when you throw them out but like, shoes too? i hate buying new shoes and i know those asshats can make shoes that last a lifetime :angery:
The problem with shoes that lasts a lifetime is that they require high quality materials and lots of craftsmanship so they are really expensive. Only the rich can afford them while the rest of us mere mortals have to buy the cheap ones that only lasts for two years. Probably we will end up paying more for shoes in a lifetime than the rich guy who can afford the nice quality shoes.
The same thing with furniture. Back in the old days when a middle class couple got married they would buy furniture that was really expensive but would last the rest of their lives, often longer. They would have it repaired, have worn out upholstery replaced etc.
An ecologically responsible economy would incentivise a return to repairable quality products over cheap disposable ones.
The same thing with furniture. Back in the old days when a middle class couple got married they would buy furniture that was really expensive but would last the rest of their lives, often longer. They would have it repaired, have worn out upholstery replaced etc.
Yes, labor was expensive in the world before the industrial exploitation of the 3rd world with the globalized economy made furniture/etc cheap. Buying things from Walmart rather just going down to the local artisans to get a hand build crib or whatever
modular phone we can repair ourselves? Yes pls
