(Almost All) Smartphones Just Plain Suck Now
Just a quick rant. This may be obvious to many folks, but wow, smartphones are so boring and awful (user-hostile) nowadays. They somehow find a way to get even worse. every. single. year.
Every phone release now is just a ever-increasing slab which looks just like all the other slabs. You get your iPhones and you get your Android phones, and that’s it. No company takes any risks at all, they just keep axing features (MicroSD, 3.5mm, replaceable battery, IR blaster, hw keyboard). And they’re increasingly locked down and controlled, so Apple and Google can spy on everything you do, and you just have to trust them to not leak too much sensitive info about you to their advertisers …
