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What's the real reason that laptop batteries are made not-accessible?

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Miyuki:

--- Quote from: heutnoch on December 10, 2021, 09:48:09 am ---And now I have a $200 phone instead of a $800 phone. It features a high-capacity battery and a headphone jack. I can even use it to call people. Sometimes I miss my old phones camera (it was really good) but it is a phone, that can make pictures, and no camera I can make calls with.

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Yes you made your vote with a wallet
There is plenty of choice on the market. Smaller manufacturers fill the gaps in the market.
Phone market have reasonably small blocks to enter the market. Everything that people will buy is manufactured.
Phones like this will be made and sold as long as some people will buy them. But there is not a lot of people who buy them.

heutnoch:
Yes, there is no ideal phone for anyone. Or for very very few people. You can try to balance things out. I for my part am happier, when I’m a little unhappy about some aspects of a phone, that did only cost me $200. And while it is sometimes useful to have internet to go in your pocket, I don’t really use it as a multimedia platform, for gaming or other demanding stuff. So why pay for it? Different people use their phones in different ways and buy different phones. That’s why there is a market.

It might also be a smart choice (for some people) to buy a phone, that costed $1000 a few years ago. The specs might be similar to a budget pone in many regards, but I guess the investment into developing a flagship phone is higher. Pictures and sound might be better, power consumption more optimized and so on.

And yeah, a brand-new flagship phone can be a damn nice piece of technic you just want to own for… reasons. I’m not immune to that. I tried it out and might do so again at some point.

But as you can’t expect to find a phone, that meets your demand in every single feature, you can’t conclude that a sold phone is a vote, that every single design decision was the right one in the buyers opinion. And you can’t expect every buyer to know, how to rate design decisions.

PlainName:

--- Quote ---A more similar comparison would be HDMI, Displayport or whatever they are using now disappearing and being replaced by a wireless video standard that requires purchasing a new monitor or using a dongle.
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My Dell laptop of some years came without an RJ45 port (too thick for the case, I think). I have to use a USB->Ethernet dongle. And I think many laptops now come with USB-C only, so if you want serial or network of even video you're going to need a dongle.

Hmmm. Thinking about all the stuff that's missing nowadays (optical drive, before that floppy drive, miscellaneous ports) it seems like Apple was the first to jump ship and everyone else followed.

NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: james_s on December 10, 2021, 07:22:16 am ---It's a lot different. VGA had been going away for a while, it was always an inferior solution for digital flat panels which have had DVI for at least 20 years. The only thing VGA makes any sense for is CRT monitors and those have been out of production for years. Analog audio products are widespread and still in production. The analog headphone jack is superior to bluetooth in many ways and it is still used by countless people. This is apples and oranges. A more similar comparison would be HDMI, Displayport or whatever they are using now disappearing and being replaced by a wireless video standard that requires purchasing a new monitor or using a dongle.

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Every smartphone I'm aware of still supports wired audio output, just in digital form.

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: Miyuki on December 10, 2021, 10:58:40 am ---
--- Quote from: heutnoch on December 10, 2021, 09:48:09 am ---And now I have a $200 phone instead of a $800 phone. It features a high-capacity battery and a headphone jack. I can even use it to call people. Sometimes I miss my old phones camera (it was really good) but it is a phone, that can make pictures, and no camera I can make calls with.

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Yes you made your vote with a wallet
There is plenty of choice on the market. Smaller manufacturers fill the gaps in the market.
Phone market have reasonably small blocks to enter the market. Everything that people will buy is manufactured.
Phones like this will be made and sold as long as some people will buy them. But there is not a lot of people who buy them.

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The "flagship phones" are promoted heavily with advertising and media trend setters etc., and fetch a premium price.  It almost doesn't matter what the technology is at that level, as long as customers can be convinced it is "the best"...

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