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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not sure how many people need more storage but the current way is predatory and the general public would pick up battery swaps pretty easily.

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  • Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When your phone is no longer locked down and working against you, it’s amazing how much more you can - and will - do with it, and the extra storage space quickly becomes most appreciated.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And yet the phones with those features have been discontinued or unpopular.

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    • AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The phones with those features have been discontinued but they were never unpopular, they were just what phones were.

      Nobody 10 years ago was saying “I wish I couldn’t replace my phone battery” or “I hate that I have the option to plug my wired IEMs into my phone”

      People just do what people are good at. Adapting.

      Manufacturers have taken these options away because it is profitable to do so. People have largely adapted to that (although I still refuse to buy a phone without a headphone jack)

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      • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, and the reason it was profitable to do so was that people don’t care about them.

        If they did care, the companies that removed them would have gone out of business.

        So, again, most people - of which we are not - do not care about these features.

        Sorry to burst your bubble.

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      have been discontinued or unpopular.

      …and? Manufacturers will drop expandable storage because they can charge $100+ more for a model with another 128gb. Yes they still sell phones with them but they’re not the flagships.

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      • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Are there phones with expandable storage that people could buy to avoid that cost?

        If so, why aren’t they that popular?

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    • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wdym? Fairphone is pretty popular.

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• Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dude we used to have expandable storage in the form of micro SD cards and same with batteries. People know or could figure it out.

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