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dash2today at 12:17 AM7 repliesview on HN

The Adam Smith Institute once added up all the govt spending demands made in a single news program and it came to like 10% of GDP.

Similarly the comments here: if only it could do all this and

* On/off button round the back

* More LTE bands

* An open bootloader (note to normies this is like saying "have a quantum multiplexer")

* Different screen ratio

* Different keyboard layouts

* Eink screen

* Bigger battery

* Be easier to use for someone with long fingernails (hello Nosferatu https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751114)

* Be lighter

* Be smaller

* Have a website without javascript (really)

* Be cheaper (this one is satire) (no it's not)

Sure guys, why can't someone just build you your personal phone at the same price as the iPhone whose development costs are amortized over seval billions consumers :-/


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ssl-3today at 9:24 AM

* Headphone jack for special music

* SD card slot to store that special music

* Multiple physical SIMs because eSIMs can't be trusted

* Multiple eSIMs because physical SIMs are dumb

* LoRa for meshtastic because the network can't be trusted

* Drug scale for weighing drugs

(Actually, just put the drug scale on there and great teaming throngs of people will immediately forget that they ever owned an iPhone.)

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tom_today at 1:18 AM

Yeah, all of that would be great. Good ideas all round, and thank you for gathering all these sensible requests into one centralized list.

Slight problem, and it's not clear whether you've realised this: everybody else in the world knows that we can't have everything! Still, it's good to have goals, even if they can't be met, and it'd be monstrous to mock the ambition on display - which I do declare we should in fact salute. Good on you sir/madam, for not being a cynical jaded asshole like the rest of us.

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1vuio0pswjnm7today at 4:01 AM

"Have a website without javascript (really)"

Their website also requires a User-Agent headeer

Given the low level of traffic, IME this is unusual

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c0balttoday at 1:08 AM

> Be easier to use for someone with long fingernails (hello Nosferatu)

Long nails are somewhat common as an aesthetic/cosmetic choice usually for women (ime). No need to make a joke around accessible design.

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ex-aws-dudetoday at 6:00 AM

The homer simpson car

whattoday at 2:18 AM

>note to normies this is like saying "have a quantum multiplexer"

I don’t think you helped the normies out.

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