[ryandrake]

I don't even understand why computer and phone manufacturers even try to make their devices faster anymore, since for most computing tasks, the bottleneck is all the data that needs to be transferred to and from the modern version of the mainframe.

[tim333]

There are often activities that do require compute though. My last phone upgrade was so Pokemon Go would work again, my friend upgrades for the latest 4k video or similar.

[charcircuit]

Consumers care about battery life.

[fainpul]

Yet manufacturers give us thinner and thinner phones every year (instead of using that space for the battery), and make it difficult to swap out batteries which have degraded.

[thewebguyd]

> make it difficult to swap out batteries which have degraded.

That's the part that pisses me off the most. They all claim it's for the IP68, but that's bullshit. There's plenty of devices with removable backs & batteries that are IP68.

My BlackBerry bold 9xxx was 10mm thin. the iPhone 17 Pro Max is 8.75. You aren't going to notice the 1.3mm of difference, and my BlackBerry had a user replaceable battery, no tools required just pop off the back cover.

The BlackBerry was also about 100 grams lighter.

The non-user removable batteries and unibody designs are purely for planned obsolescence, nothing else.

[eloisant]

Also when a remote service struggle I can switch to do something else. When a local software struggles it brings my whole device to its knees and I can't do anything.

[galaxyLogic]

And providers count their capacity in Giga-watts.