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  • They’re actually behind. 3D printers are a much newer industry. Most industries start out super open, competitive and collaborative. This speeds up development to consumer-grade products. Eventually one or two companies gain sufficient marketshare to start enforcing anti-consumer shitfuckery. Look at the recent drama with Bambu printers and you’ll find that’s exactly what’s happening. It’s a tale as old as time.

    Framework actually trolled us into thinking they were going to release a printer but instead they went into a market segment where everything was already modular, repairable and upgradable and gave us something that was not, at all. But hey, they gotta capitalize on the AI nonsense too, I guess?





  • You may have forgotten that all phones came with swappable batteries, small screens, and headphone jacks and they sold millions of them for decades. That proves these are important features because they sold well, right?

    Important to consumers, yes. Important to OEMs? No, quite the opposite. I don’t think that applies to screen size.

    What does that even mean?

    What did you even mean if not to imply that people weren’t buying specifically large phones because they didn’t include these anti-features?

    So identical that they were nearly the same price which could put a lot of buyers off if they feel like they’re getting less value for their money

    Why would they feel like they were getting lass value when it was the size they wanted, and had everything else also?

    Consumers also think that 1/4lb burgers are better than 1/3lb burgers because they’re bigger

    So then you agree consumers want bigger phones?

    You’re simply cherrypicking the result you want and shaping it to fit your argument.

    Pot meet kettle.


  • I don’t think this argument holds water since the market hasn’t been adequately tested.

    You forget that the entire market used to be comprised of exclusively “small” phones, and we moved away from that.

    When was the last time a small phone that didn’t also focus on being budget friendly and feature-limited hit the market?

    The iPhone 13 Mini and ASUS Zenfone, not so long ago.