| vivster said: That means you will also have no trouble with the new home button. Smartphone components will shrink if we want to or not. The fact that only apple is doing the drastic changes first doesn't mean the others won't follow. Remember when people slammed iPhone for not having expandable storage? Samsung followed and now it's no big deal. Remember when iPhones were slammed for not having removable batteries? Samsung followed and now it's not a problem. Remember when MS was slammed for demanding money for online? Sony followed and now it's not a problem. These "issues" people currently have with home buttons and headphone jacks will go away pretty quickly. Android phones will definitely lose the jack at some point, though it won't be as much of a problem because by this time USB 3.1 will also be standardized for audio and all headphones will come with usb instead of a jack and no one will care. |
People did slam Samsung for getting did if removable storage, which is why the Galaxy S7 brought it back. You see, sometimes there's a difference between "progress" and "change." Removing the sd card in exchange for a sleeker design and a bigger battery in the s6 was change. Just swapping out one feature for another. Bringing it back with the S7 without compromising those new design improvements was actual progress, not just a feature swap.
If you look at LG, they've redesigned their battery loading mechanism with their latest phones instead of removing the feature altogether. Progress, not change. They also continue to support expandable storage. Samsung lost me when they decided to start stripping features from their phones and replacing them with fluff, and i know plenty of other people who are switching to LG for the same reason. If i wanted a closed device, I'd get an iphone. They have a better app store, and superior performance to Samsung's phones anyway.
As for Apple, well, they removed the headphone port and replaced it with a second speaker, for Pete's sake! What more it's there to say about that?
