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Holy shit typing on a keyboard is so glorious
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2020-09-16 at 8:58 PM UTCI'm a millennial and I have spent far more time on computers than any of you
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2020-09-16 at 9:42 PM UTC
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2020-09-17 at 1:53 AM UTC
Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood the thing i hate about TOUCH TECHNOLOGY is once its broken it's fucked because of the thin liquid crystal displays that you can only get in china or some bullshit parts reseller or take it to a phone repair store when all you want to do is type the english letters
Compared to mechanical keyboard where you can slam it against concrete and hit your monitor with it and you just pop the keys back in and good to go
true. the device is called a digitizer
it's strange, Like Say you bought a Samsung 2 whatever and you wanted to change out the screen and dig it might be 1-2-3 maybe 4 steps. just heating the glue to seperate, remove broken glass.. use a new gasket (glue) and a few flex cables.
then when samsung 3 whatever comes out, it's 10 steps. removing front stuff, flex cables, screws, speaker and sometimes other jacks, then flip the fucker over and remove more flex cables and peripheral.
one phone isn't even worth fixing because there is so much work involved. a 100 dollar standard fee is worth it. they might take 2-3 hours plus a 10 dollar glass and whatever. it might take them 30 minutes. they charge the same usually just to even out, make it look fair. still charge half what a retailer would charge. Kioske costed to damn much. people do it mobile now. -
2020-09-27 at 2:17 PM UTCJust the way the market is moving: easier repairability usually means concessions have to be made in the overall design of the device that you otherwise don't have to make, or things are more challenging and will raise the cost enough so at scale it becomes significant.
For example the easiest "repair" for phones used to be to swap out the battery if the old one got shitty: pop open the back and boom, phone's battery life is like new. But having a removable back means waterproofing suddenly becomes a much bigger challenge. And if you took away the removable back, you can actually fit a bigger battery in without the standard contacts and back assembly. If you just integrate it into one piece you can just wire the battery to the PCB directly and ensure any holes for speakers, cable etc are sealed from the inside.
They won't make those concessions if repairability isn't that big of a selling point, which it isn't as phones go.
Mass market consumers don't really want their phone fixed. They would rather just buy a new phone than wait a week for a repair, and the phone companies see that as a win. So right out they don't win from repairability, and indeed do benefit from not caring about making a phone easy to repair.
There are some decent options out there still though. Look into Fairphone, which I've been considering recently myself next time I need an upgrade. It's fully made for repairability and even upgradability. Interesting idea. But you can tell it is chonky and stuff because of this focus. -
2020-09-27 at 3:51 PM UTCedited for privacy
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2020-09-27 at 4:32 PM UTCCustom ROMs were a reason in the past but now the UX of most phones is good enough that that aspect of Android has gone pretty underground at this point. The failure of Cyanogen kind of scared everyone off from committing to making something bigger out of a ROM.
