Smartphones are so boring in 2022. Even iPhones. I have my iPhone XR since 3.5 years and I don't need to change it at least for a couple of years, if the battery stays alive
I think we're slowly getting back to normality with this though. The peak of thinness for Apple was the iPhone 6, and that was a disaster. It was a great example of too thin. Now I believe they have gone back to the thicker iPhone 5 aesthetic, with a bigger battery and a more solid design.
Not so boring, will my modem work today? Maybe
Having some feature you wouldn't have broken, is it better or worse than not having it?
My S21 plus keep changing my default browser back to whatever the hell is Samsung Internet every hour. My iphone doesn't even have a browser alternative, only "skins"
> keep changing my default browser back to whatever the hell is Samsung Internet every hour
Yeah stuff like that drives me nuts too. Particularly it's the permissions stuff, I buy hey Samsung ear buds and I have to accept like 11 different permissions to use them.
And for the cheaper devices they're purposely loaded with garbage or you can't swipe these certain notifications... ads built into your voicemail program.
My main phone right now is a $300 Motorola Android phone it does all I need 1080p screen, 4GB ram. I personally can't justify buying a phone like this that costs as much as a nice laptop/desktop. But I also spent over $1K on a remote controlled composite glider so I guess every body has their poison.
It's wildly unpopular on here: but if one wants something amazing then one has to also support broad and fast protection for innovation (which also is something that benefits small innovators.) That includes not acting as cheerleaders for brands that copy IP while positioning themselves as price saviours for the common-folk. Without coincidence this is an opportunity that Samsung has exploited in numerous electronics categories: copy fast and drag out the relief process to either sink the innovator or until a point where the relief isn't meaningful.
Copies and near-copies from discounter brands leads to the rise of business models that runs the clock on consumers and only provides minimal revisions; i.e just enough progress to avoid disruption, leading to products that year-on-year seem like the same thing.
That is how it should be.