• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    Smartphone buyers care more about that thing that they’ve been begging for, for years? You don’t say… And mobile phone manufacturers are again and still going to ignore what people actually want in favor of expensive and non functional vaporware, like they always do?

    You don’t say!

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    They’re pushing AI so hard but most people just see it as a gimmicky thing. The only people who care are the investors.

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    yeah but you can’t set inflate your stock value based on hype about battery life.

    people forget that these features aren’t for users. it’s for idiots who invest in ridiculous shit hoping it to be the next big thing.

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      Like you know, you can setup a file share to back up files. You can back up your phone and get a new one easily. If you lost a phone you can bring it back. Your files organized the way you want and not some things here and done things there like the apps want.

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    “The only thing we bothered changing in the new model is we added a robot that hoovers even more of your data and then lies to you confidently!”

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      No. Strictly and technically speaking, LLMs absolutely fall under the category of AI. You’re thinking of AGI, which is a subset of AI, and which LLMs will be a necessary but insufficient component of.

      I’m an AI Engineer; I’ve taken to, in my circles, calling AI “Algorithmic Intelligence” rather than “Artificial Intelligence.” It’s far more fitting term for what is happening. But until the Yanns and Ngs and Hintons of the field start calling it that, we’re stuck with it.

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      If you don’t think this counts as AI, can you give us an example of some function or behavior that you would consider AI?

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        Reasoning, sentience, and the ability, over time, to improve. There’s more, but that’s the top three.

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    I still would take an extra mm for more battery life. At this point it’s no difference if it’s a bit thinner.

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    Oh wow shocking, people actually cared more about usability than trashy feature? That’s unheard of

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    How about making a phone that’s a whole millimeter thicker just to make the glass thick and strong enough that it won’t break if you drop it?

    Great idea! Unless of course the replacement of parts and broken phones is a core part of the business model.

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      There are a few ruggedized phones out there. I bought some cheap Oukitel phones to use as an order pad in restaurant I used to run, because I was fed up with two waitresses dropping and breaking pads. When I sold the business, I kept one. I use it mainly in my boat, as GPS, plotter, speedometer, weather…

      The thing drops, gets wet, handled without care.

      These phones exist. They are not top performance dogs, but can be quite decent. Why arent they in the front line? Because demand

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      Rubbish. If my phone isn’t so thin that it can double as a knife, it’s not worth buying.

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      Even if it were thicker I’d still slap on a sacrificial glass screen protector atop it. I’ve dropped my phone only a handful of times, and so far have only ever broken the protector.

      Just slap a shield on it, there’s your added thickness and better drop resistance all in one!

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    2010: We want bigger batteries, they give us colorful phones

    2015 We want bigger batteries, they give us 1mm thinner phones

    2020 We want bigger batteries, they give us 5 cameras

    2025 We want bigger batteries, they give us AI

    Phones are a great example of the utter failure of capitalism to address what people actually need and want.

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      They also keep taking away features, like removable storage (microSD) and headphone jacks. There’s a few phones that have them, but it gets more difficult to find them as time goes on.

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      Steve Jobs proved that consumers don’t actually know what they want until you tell them. And it’s the manufacturers job to tell them what they want and deliver it.

      Since Apple doesn’t want a bigger battery that means no one gets a bigger battery.

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      I would like colourful phones back though, they were so much more fun compared to the sea of black/white/grey + ONE option in the blue-purple spectrum we have today.

      Can we get that AND bigger batteries?..bigger colourful batteries even?

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        And cameras! Don’t replace 12mp 2x telephotos with 48mp 1x digital zoom cameras pls

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      @AbsoluteChicagoDog @Alphane_Moon nobody has been asking for bigger batteries, people already cry about the weight as is. Apple switched to using a titanium frame just to drop a few grams of weight because people were crying about the weight. So, no, people haven’t been asking for bigger batteries, they have been asking for devices that last the day and then some, which we currently have. You also have the ability to recharge your battery to full in about a half 1 🧵

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    Fuck Siri with ChatGPT. I just want third party app notifications to actually play a sound and vibrate on my watch again. I really hope the next iOS update will fix that. I’m not the only one with this issue currently.