one alternative would be to have a phone with a cpu that can be desoldered and replaced easily and in a more voluminous case (maybe a nice cnc milled alumin(i)um case)
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#52Remember when desktop PC where made from interchangeable components? How many people actually upgraded them instead of buying a new, boxed one?
For everyone telling kken how often they upgrade your desktops, do note that we are not a representative sample of the desktop-buying public.
When was the last time your parents/grandparents upgraded something in their desktop computer?
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#53Schei� encoding
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#54This looks like a marketing stunt:
* the site does not have anything on it besides a video and an Amazon widget (go for the quick bucks?)
* it is not a real site, but a campaign on thunderclap.it (a new kind of service and really interesting concept )
* the video promotes an idea that you can have a good looking phone which you can customize however you want - who wouldn't want that?
* they let the impression that it's only the petty, nasty corporations that don't want such a phone to exist, just to be able to upsell us more phones and rip off our hard earned money, totally not addressing the technical issues.
What could happen (it already did) - the video and the campaign went viral, so:
* the authors of the campaign get a few thousands of dollars from the Amazon referral commissions
* people hear and see the power of crowdspeaking platforms in action (thunderclap.it)
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#55This site has been down for days at the exact time the video is going viral. There is another site [1] www.phoneblocs.com that has more information
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#56http://www.phoneblocs.com is up and has a copy of the video.
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#57one alternative would be to have a phone with a cpu that can be desoldered and replaced easily and in a more voluminous case (maybe a nice cnc milled alumin(i)um case)
"Desoldered and replaced easily"? Clearly, you've never actually desoldered anything. :) It's a tricky process which requires a good deal of special-purpose equipment and training, and even with that, there's a nontrivial chance that you'll damage the part, the board, or both in the process. It's not something you'd ever want to do on end-user equipment.
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#58Nice idea. But I simply fail to see how this could make something more than another geek toy.
I have said the exact same quote for the iPhone. And have heard it about the Raspberry Pi. Probably someone somewhere in the early 80s have said it about the IBM-PC. Geek toys have the power to change the world when the brain behind them leverages them to new and amazing things.
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#59This site has been down for days at the exact time the video is going viral. There is another site [1] www.phoneblocs.com that has more information
The guy keeps posting this, but it's a fake scam site with ads asking for bitcoins. Which, as he said, he is not taking donations: https://twitter.com/davehakkens/status/378204427363946497
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#60http://www.phoneblocs.com is up and has a copy of the video.
The guy keeps posting this, but it's a fake scam site with ads asking for bitcoins. Which, as he said, he is not taking donations: https://twitter.com/davehakkens/status/378204427363946497