I distinctly remember from my school days (Western EU) mobile phones were to remain off and in backpacks.
And those were still the days we you just had this relatively dumb flipphone that could litterally only call and text and if you were lucky had a potato camera as it's main novelty.
There was no access to internet, much less AI's that can do your entire homework for you and they were already annoying to deal with for a teacher.
Can't imagine how that is now.
That specifically is such a naked example of planned obolescence i'm still salty that was not already illegal.
I was fuming when the bearing on my Bosh washing machine wore out and without batting an eyelid they wanted to sell me the whole drum assembly. Including mounting springs. Instead of just some bearings.
For the unitiated, that is roughly 70 percent of all the components in the whole machine. Other than the drum assembly there's basicly only some logic boards, some plumbing and the motor.
All that to replace a 20 euro bearing. Which is a "wear part" by the way and should therefore 100 percent be serviceable.
I'm arguably a real man's man with typical man likes and man opinions but I won't for the life of me understand this macho stigma against pissing sitting down.
You have no toilet paper at urinals so you put your member back into your underwear with more residual piss on it than you would've otherwise, and splashback of piss particulates back onto your pants is also a thing.
Especially when you drain the lizard in or at something that's not one of those round specifically purpose built porcelain urinals.
Like those unials that are just a big metal plate, a normal toilet, or a wall or tree.
Linux gaming has been in the lift for a good while now and is getting increasingly difficult write off as insignificant, I'm not sure the intent here is to attract users as much as to just service those the made the switch.
Could also be long game.
Ideally this keeps growing and everyone (including the anti-cheat developers that are the sole reason some games still don't work) are giong to have to take this seriously.
And we don't know how much actual additional work there is here, it could be relatively trivial to get the client working on Linux.
Heroic is ultimately outside of GOG's sphere of influence.
If you decide to officially lean on them and they decide to drop GOG or Herioc development entirely they'd have to scramble for a replacement.
And honestly I only use Herioc to interface with GOG, i'd probably prefer use the official application if there was any.
What market. Nobody asked them to remove features.
They all pretty much unilaterraly axed these features around the same time so your "choice" in the high-end segment went from having these things to not having these things, at all, in the entire segment, within the timespan of like a year.
So your choice back then was to take the hit or buy a mid-range phone that still packed those features. But it's not like these things are the only thing that matter. Phones are complex devices.
Buying lower end you forego other stuff like memory(speed) processing power, camera quality, build quality, screen quality, software support period, etc.
These things didn't stop because there's no market for them.
These things stopped because they can get away with removing them to make more money selling you repairs, their own storage variations and bluetooth gear.
You don't get rid of a car because you don't like the buttons on your dashboard, if the rest of the car is up to your demands.
People now having phones without headphone jacks or sd card trays doesn't mean that they wouldn't have preferred otherwise.
You're a lot more optimistic about the motives than I am.
I'm convinced big tech being able to make more money selling you other storage options instead of allowing you to just expand it yourself with a much cheaper SD card is at least 90 percent of why sd cards stopped being a thing on phones.
Cloud storage will have had some effect on demand but read/write speeds are not a variable if you just store a bunch of music and photo's on the SD card. Read write speeds to the cloud are also trash compared to internal storage.
Same story with the headphone jack.
It's not that people didn't use it, there was definately still an audience for it and it's a part that costs pennies.
But axing it boosts the sale of Bluetooth gear.
It's not a coincidence that Apple and Samsung led the charge here, they sell tons of accessoires.
However, you aren’t locked into PS’ store and things like GOG exist. I make a point to buy games on GOG, and so should anyone interested in OP’s boycott.
While this is true, releases on GOG are few and far between and all the other stores are just (bad) variations of the same thing.
Online web stores are very very far from functioning like brick and mortar stores for physical releases used to.
We primarily have "competition" on pc in online stores because some publishers are big enough to build their own just so they don't have to pay Valve to be on Steam.
So you are not technically locked to one store, but you are very much locked to whatever store publishers choose to push their game to.
So essentially you're locked to all of them unless you choose to just not play said game, which is essentially the same choice you have on the Playstation with just the PS store.
Gamers are notoriously bad at voting with their wallet so i'm very curious to see what comes of this.
I mean all the power to anybody that actually participates in this but effective boycots don't usually have a start or end date. This looks more like a strike.
You're going to need to get everybody to abandon Sony indefinately. Preferably from right now right up untill demands are met.
That way you either get what you want, or you do not at which point you know chasing that point further is futile.
Oh yeah. I've definately seen some renders that make it look quite nice, but they do that by adding a bunch of elements to it like skirts, extended wheel arches, spoilers, light bars, paint and lower it to the point you can't use it as a truck anymore.
But then it also really stops being what it origionally was.
It can be a controversial item, but then cars are rarely universally put on a podium for it's looks.
Usually when you cater to broad audiences designs are trending towards the more boring/vanilla side.
The cars that really stick out design wise have always been at least somewhat controversial.
Even today still with all these decades of car design exprience. Take for example BMW's new (massive) grille.
Tesla has a reputation around confronting people with expensive battery pack swaps over a broken coolant pipe and stuff like that, you don't need them to go out of business for a reasonable chance to turn your car into premature ewaste.
Hate is a big word, but Elon's antics, the fact that most of the car's aestetics are essentially superglued trim pieces, and that it just isn't a better truck in any meaningful sense of the word took away most of this vehicle's appeal to me.
Mostly the first point though.
That it ultimately didn't sell for anywhere near the origionally announced price, and that in Europe they don't want it on the road at all, also doesn't help.
Why would you not just take a secondary (read: wiped) phone going somewhere problematic instead of relying on features like this?
You know US border security under Trump plays fast and loose with your rights.
And it's not like there's no cars in the Netherlands either.
Was this never a thing in the US previously?
I distinctly remember from my school days (Western EU) mobile phones were to remain off and in backpacks.
And those were still the days we you just had this relatively dumb flipphone that could litterally only call and text and if you were lucky had a potato camera as it's main novelty.
There was no access to internet, much less AI's that can do your entire homework for you and they were already annoying to deal with for a teacher. Can't imagine how that is now.
Google wil er niks over roepen dus als je een beetje pessimistisch bent kan je de aanname doen dat die er nog slechter voor staat.
That specifically is such a naked example of planned obolescence i'm still salty that was not already illegal.
I was fuming when the bearing on my Bosh washing machine wore out and without batting an eyelid they wanted to sell me the whole drum assembly. Including mounting springs. Instead of just some bearings.
For the unitiated, that is roughly 70 percent of all the components in the whole machine. Other than the drum assembly there's basicly only some logic boards, some plumbing and the motor.
All that to replace a 20 euro bearing. Which is a "wear part" by the way and should therefore 100 percent be serviceable.
I'm arguably a real man's man with typical man likes and man opinions but I won't for the life of me understand this macho stigma against pissing sitting down.
You have no toilet paper at urinals so you put your member back into your underwear with more residual piss on it than you would've otherwise, and splashback of piss particulates back onto your pants is also a thing.
Especially when you drain the lizard in or at something that's not one of those round specifically purpose built porcelain urinals. Like those unials that are just a big metal plate, a normal toilet, or a wall or tree.
Linux gaming has been in the lift for a good while now and is getting increasingly difficult write off as insignificant, I'm not sure the intent here is to attract users as much as to just service those the made the switch.
Could also be long game. Ideally this keeps growing and everyone (including the anti-cheat developers that are the sole reason some games still don't work) are giong to have to take this seriously.
And we don't know how much actual additional work there is here, it could be relatively trivial to get the client working on Linux.
And more or less equally problematic?
Heroic is ultimately outside of GOG's sphere of influence. If you decide to officially lean on them and they decide to drop GOG or Herioc development entirely they'd have to scramble for a replacement.
And honestly I only use Herioc to interface with GOG, i'd probably prefer use the official application if there was any.
What market. Nobody asked them to remove features.
They all pretty much unilaterraly axed these features around the same time so your "choice" in the high-end segment went from having these things to not having these things, at all, in the entire segment, within the timespan of like a year.
So your choice back then was to take the hit or buy a mid-range phone that still packed those features. But it's not like these things are the only thing that matter. Phones are complex devices. Buying lower end you forego other stuff like memory(speed) processing power, camera quality, build quality, screen quality, software support period, etc.
These things didn't stop because there's no market for them. These things stopped because they can get away with removing them to make more money selling you repairs, their own storage variations and bluetooth gear.
You don't get rid of a car because you don't like the buttons on your dashboard, if the rest of the car is up to your demands. People now having phones without headphone jacks or sd card trays doesn't mean that they wouldn't have preferred otherwise.
You're a lot more optimistic about the motives than I am.
I'm convinced big tech being able to make more money selling you other storage options instead of allowing you to just expand it yourself with a much cheaper SD card is at least 90 percent of why sd cards stopped being a thing on phones.
Cloud storage will have had some effect on demand but read/write speeds are not a variable if you just store a bunch of music and photo's on the SD card. Read write speeds to the cloud are also trash compared to internal storage.
Same story with the headphone jack. It's not that people didn't use it, there was definately still an audience for it and it's a part that costs pennies. But axing it boosts the sale of Bluetooth gear.
It's not a coincidence that Apple and Samsung led the charge here, they sell tons of accessoires.
While this is true, releases on GOG are few and far between and all the other stores are just (bad) variations of the same thing. Online web stores are very very far from functioning like brick and mortar stores for physical releases used to.
We primarily have "competition" on pc in online stores because some publishers are big enough to build their own just so they don't have to pay Valve to be on Steam. So you are not technically locked to one store, but you are very much locked to whatever store publishers choose to push their game to.
So essentially you're locked to all of them unless you choose to just not play said game, which is essentially the same choice you have on the Playstation with just the PS store.
I mean, most people don't use trucks as trucks.
Gamers are notoriously bad at voting with their wallet so i'm very curious to see what comes of this.
I mean all the power to anybody that actually participates in this but effective boycots don't usually have a start or end date. This looks more like a strike.
You're going to need to get everybody to abandon Sony indefinately. Preferably from right now right up untill demands are met. That way you either get what you want, or you do not at which point you know chasing that point further is futile.
Oh yeah. I've definately seen some renders that make it look quite nice, but they do that by adding a bunch of elements to it like skirts, extended wheel arches, spoilers, light bars, paint and lower it to the point you can't use it as a truck anymore.
But then it also really stops being what it origionally was.
It can be a controversial item, but then cars are rarely universally put on a podium for it's looks. Usually when you cater to broad audiences designs are trending towards the more boring/vanilla side.
The cars that really stick out design wise have always been at least somewhat controversial. Even today still with all these decades of car design exprience. Take for example BMW's new (massive) grille.
I like the birds, never been a fan of the faces on the bills.
Tesla has a reputation around confronting people with expensive battery pack swaps over a broken coolant pipe and stuff like that, you don't need them to go out of business for a reasonable chance to turn your car into premature ewaste.
Hate is a big word, but Elon's antics, the fact that most of the car's aestetics are essentially superglued trim pieces, and that it just isn't a better truck in any meaningful sense of the word took away most of this vehicle's appeal to me.
Mostly the first point though.
That it ultimately didn't sell for anywhere near the origionally announced price, and that in Europe they don't want it on the road at all, also doesn't help.
I also don't think the Cybertruck's aestetics are going to age the same way Edsel's has.
Even placed in de universe of Cyberpunk, where it's allegedly from, it really is mostly just a dumpster with wheels.
Why would you not just take a secondary (read: wiped) phone going somewhere problematic instead of relying on features like this? You know US border security under Trump plays fast and loose with your rights.