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Topic	iPhone X is officially a flop; Apple slashes production by half
Romulox28 01/30/18 12:40:31 PM #47:	@FLUFFYGERM posted... @Romulox28 you have literally lost your goddam mind smart phones are becoming ubiquitous and provide cheap and easy access to all of the world's information at the tips of your fingers. they're a huge boon to global and local economies. here's my two cents: I wouldn't say they are necessary, but smartphones are becoming increasingly more and more central to living a modern, connected lifestyle. manufacturers acknowledge this and as a result have created a system for their products that takes advantage of consumers as much as possible. Smartphones are designed to be quickly disposable (batteries that quickly degrade, operating systems that slow down over time or with mandatory updates, etc). Smartphones are also designed to not be repairable, with nearly all repairs being nearly impossible for the average consumer to perform on their own. They are pretty much designed to break (i.e. iPhone X all glass construction that cost $549 if you crack the back plate). Smartphones are also notorious for removing features in order to create new market segments, rather than providing some kind of additional value to consumers (i.e. removing headphone jacks and SD card slots). Finally, smartphones are extremely expensive, and manufacturers and carriers are in bed together to make sure that this is a fact that is hidden from the general public as much as possible. Most US customers do not buy unlocked, and if you go to a carrier store they will only push high end phones. The cost of these phones are also obscure; go on the Verizon site, for example, and notice that they do not list the sale price of the phone but simply the per month cost.This is all to trick people into thinking that they are not buying a $1,000 smartphone but rather just altering their monthly bill. For savvy people that read tech blogs and shit, this is a non-issue, but when you take, say, an older person who doesn't know/care about phones and needs a new one for whatever reason, they are essentially tricked into paying very high phone bills and locking themselves into this endless cycle of buying a phone, financing it, and trading it in at the end of their finance process to start over again. --- http://i.imgur.com/LhwwG.gif <cite>Romulox28 posted [p:895109066] in iPhone X i... [t:76261098]...</cite> <quote><cite>@FLUFFYGERM posted...</cite> <quote>@Romulox28 you have literally lost your goddam mind smart phones are becoming ubiquitous and provide cheap and easy access to all of the world's information at the tips of your fingers. they're a huge boon to global and local economies.</quote> here's my two cents: I wouldn't say they are necessary, but smartphones are becoming increasingly more and more central to living a modern, connected lifestyle. manufacturers acknowledge this and as a result have created a system for their products that takes advantage of consumers as much as possible. Smartphones are designed to be quickly disposable (batteries that quickly degrade, operating systems that slow down over time or with mandatory updates, etc). Smartphones are also designed to not be repairable, with nearly all repairs being nearly impossible for the average consumer to perform on their own. They are pretty much designed to break (i.e. iPhone X all glass construction that cost $549 if you crack the back plate). Smartphones are also notorious for removing features in order to create new market segments, rather than providing some kind of additional value to consumers (i.e. removing headphone jacks and SD card slots). Finally, smartphones are extremely expensive, and manufacturers and carriers are in bed together to make sure that this is a fact that is hidden from the general public as much as possible. Most US customers do not buy unlocked, and if you go to a carrier store they will only push high end phones. The cost of these phones are also obscure; go on the Verizon site, for example, and notice that they do not list the sale price of the phone but simply the per month cost.This is all to trick people into thinking that they are not buying a $1,000 smartphone but rather just altering their monthly bill. For savvy people that read tech blogs and shit, this is a non-issue, but when you take, say, an older person who doesn't know/care about phones and needs a new one for whatever reason, they are essentially tricked into paying very high phone bills and locking themselves into this endless cycle of buying a phone, financing it, and trading it in at the end of their finance process to start over again. --- http://i.imgur.com/LhwwG.gif</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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