The neck-breaking speed of their hardware obsolescence (planned or not) is the Achilles heel of Android and iOS...
Take a look of these eye opening charts: https://priceonomics.com/phones/ http://blog.musicmagpie.co.uk/2016/06/10/how-quickly-does-your-phone-fall-in-value/ Buying a NEW PHONE or Tablet is almost like BURNING MONEY, just for the fun of it. Losing (or if you prefer: "paying") 100 or more dollars monthly, just to hold in your hand the latest and greatest marvel of modern electronics is the kind of luxury that grows tiring real soon... much like social media fatigue: https://www.foursys.co.uk/pages/article/do-you-suffer-from-social-media-fatigue-you-are-not-alone Just imagine this (not so far away) scenario: For any reason, people stop jumping in line to buy the latest and greatest phone or tablet and prefer to wait... and wait... just for a few weeks or even a few months (because time flies when you are busy), while still using their previous latest and greatest marvel from just a few months ago. How many months would Apple or Samsung or every other phone/tablet maker could last without selling new hardware to new or repeating customers? Maybe Years? Or Months? Or Weeks? Do you understand how bad is this unhealthy dependency (dependency on selling new hardware to repeating and new customers) for the present and future health of the computer industry? I foresee easily, (if these trends do not change for better) a disaster of Titanic's proportions in the computer industry. Why the computer industry is unable to foresee the peril and start devising strategies to produce money from extended support of their older hardware? Yes, money from supporting their older hardware and opening a path for their customers to stay and update within their own line of products. Recently, I watched up close a Windows XP tablet, similar to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qvVbPTG5IQ and surprisingly, the user experience it's not too far away from today tablets but these tablet computers are more than 10 years old! What kind of future is reserved for companies that treat their customers as disposable? Al _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
