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 1 month agoAnd yet the phones with those features have been discontinued or unpopular.
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.
Are there phones with expandable storage that people could buy to avoid that cost?
If so, why aren’t they that popular?
Why are you like this?
I’m sure there’s companies that make them. But if people wanted them, and they’re able to buy them, then there must be
Maybe it’s because most people - not internet nerds like us - don’t care about those things.
Wdym? Fairphone is pretty popular.
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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)
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month 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.