> On that note, mandating an SD card slot as a requirement would be a very much welcome next step.

Fuck that. Who are you to subjugate us with your preferences. Limiting what a phone can possibly be by mandating features such as SD cards is so unimaginative. There's always a segment of HN that truly wants to be tyrants and impose their preferences on the entire marketplace and consumers.

Nothing is stopping something like Framework laptops from existing in the marketplace right now besides demand. Y'all can all celebrate it on HN in your bubble but to mandate that the entire market goes in this direction reveals your frustrations more than anything.

You hate that people don't share your preferences and would go so far as to use the legal system to distort the marketplace just to satisfy your own preferences. It doesn't matter if it puts constraints on what a product can be, so long as it fulfills your needs.

So basically, it's a simpler path to impose your preferences on others than it is to actually do any work to build something or find something that matches your preferences.

Completely selfish. Just admit you have disdain for everybody else and you think you know better than the marketplace about what people want, and therefore should have the authority to dictate how everything should be designed and built while doing none of the work.

A healthy reaction to this frustration is to go build the thing you want, show people that it's better, and compete against the status quo - giving everybody more options and choices. You're not there though, and neither are the societies in the EU.

It's sad to see this kind of mindset take over Europe and it's clear it holds back Europe of reaching the heights of innovation and creativity that the world is hoping to see come from a continent that once pushed humanity to higher levels of existence and consciousness.

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anonymars 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or truly a straight-faced attempt to teach us about "healthy reactions" to things

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		'im not owned! im not owned!!', i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
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		I like their attempt to teach us about "selfishness" even more. Product regulations are "selfish", mmmkay. Requiring seat belts in cars is starting up tyranny¹. Ditto for rear-view cameras. How dare they! Those authoritarian Europeans²! _____ ¹ According to this guy — and we know it's a guy, don't we? ² Rear view cameras are required on all new vehicles sold in the US.

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alterom 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Mmmmmkay.

Now go ahead an explain how having a microSD¹ slot may hurt someone who has a device that reads/writes data².

Not hurt shareholder value. I'm talking about people³ here.

I'll wait. Very curious to hear your perspective here.

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¹ Technology that has existed for 2+ decades at this point, is the defacto standard for removable storage in phones, laptops, cameras, audio recorders, etc, supported by devices that sell for $5 new and relied on by the highest end pro gear, current spec making it forwards and backwards compatible for the foreseeable future.

Something that takes virtually no physical space and costs virtually nothing to add to a device that already needs to operate on gigabytes of data (we're not talking about forcing that, say, on a thermostat).

² Particularly, one which can run into a "Storage full" error.

³ Physical human beings (including, but not limited to, the end users), and specifically not your (or some CEO's) feelings about it.