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The Fairphone 6 no longer feels like a compromise (except in the US) (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Toasters donโ€™t run on batteries. There is a physical limit to how small they can make something and still have it not overheat while running AI bullshit both from the voltage and the frequency.

I didnโ€™t mention fairphone I mentioned Apple. Who currently sell the Vision Pro which has sold about as well as the Virtualboy. Even by your own argument if the Mini has more than %50 of the small phone market it should have been considered a success. They make an iPad mini that is well known to be the worst seller of all the iPads too and doesnโ€™t have all the features of the other iPadsโ€ฆ but it can run their AI.

[โ€“] Redex68@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't realize you weren't the original commenter. But still, AI is a fairly new focus and small phones have been on the way out for a long while. I don't know the reason why they discontinued the iPhone minis and didn't discontinue the iPad mini, but ultimately, the conversation was about Fairphone and my point was that the actual demand for small form factor phones isn't as large as some people make it out to be, and as such, it would not make sense for Fairphone to make one.

And as a side another note, the Apple Vision Pro is a strategic investment into future technologies. The product isn't meant to be successful in and of itself, it's meant to be a first step, so Apple could get a foothold into the market. And when hopefully VR becomes big in the future, they can capitalize on it. Small form factor phones aren't a new technology, so this isn't really comparable.