You must be young!

We have had modular phones already, and I wish I bought one for posterity. Time travel back to 2016 and get yourself an LG G5. There was also Google's 'Project Ara'.

Whilst you are in your time machine, pick up one of Amazon's smartphones with a 3D display and stereo cameras (or did they have four?).

It all made sense in theory, but we went the other way, to make it so that not even the battery could be swapped out.

I am no Apple fan boy, however, my hunch is that they know their customers and that the iPhone Air is perfect for people that want to show how high status they are primarily by taking photos that are exclusively of themselves. Programmers in basements are not the customer for these gadgets.

A particularly genius move of the new iPhones is the square image sensor, which is what you want if your life has to be documented on Instagram.

Image, and status, is never about practicality, it is all about peacocking, and there is nothing wrong with taking money from those that want to peacock.

> there is nothing wrong with taking money from those that want to peacock.

There _is_ something wrong with using that money to buy up supply chains and thereby undermining the viability of alternatives for more sensical people.