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Because 95% of people think their computers are fast enough but want more battery life on their phone I suppose.

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Until you discover that any new performance/efficiency discovery gets spent on more bloated software.

My random ass phone survives something like a few days of random usage

Do we need more?

Have you considered that your usage pattern may be atypical?

Yes, but I dont believe that theres this many phone addicted ppl

You don't have to be phone-addicted for your phone usage to keep going up. In a lot of societies ever more daily tasks continue to migrate off PC and onto phone apps. The number of services you interact with primarily through your phone (say, booking a hairdresser appointment or getting notified your dry-cleaning is done) keep going up everywhere. People use their phone for contactless NFC payments, for public transit check-in/check-out, etc. Having enough charge to last the day becomes increasingly not optional.

Everyone gets habituated by context to look at the thing more and more as the gateway to everything.

I think for most people, up until perhaps very recently, their phone usage patterns have continued to scale with the improvements in efficiency and performance and progress has been very stagnant. As in, the 2-3 phones they've had over the last 5-6 years all get through the day and then it's charging time if you want to be OK on the next day. Even if you're on 40% at the end of the day, you still have to charge.

The two-day mainstream smartphone phone is not here yet.

My cheap chinese phone lasted almost a week, over 5 years. I got a new flagship Samsung one, somehow the thing loses around 30% battery every day even if I do nothing. I think manufacturers need more efficient phones to keep doing whatever the heck they are doing, it's not like the "user" owns these things.

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