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"The role of smartphones in contemporary life feels increasingly stupid" (www.dezeen.com)

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Ned Ludd may be long dead, he may never even have existed at all, but he was right – and it's time we started listening.

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[–] egrets 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's fair, although I don't feel it's changed much for iPhone, past the first few models where the hardware improvements were most dramatic. 2011's iPhone 4S had five years of major updates supported. The 5S (2013) had six. The iPhone X (2017) is probably on its last major version at seven years. That's a slow improvement, which still deserves recognition I suppose.

[–] then_three_more 4 points 1 week ago

Apple was way ahead of android manufacturers for ages, they've just caught up now. That's where the biggest changes are