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1. dash2 · 1789777048 · focus · 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 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49751114">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49751114)

   * Be lighter

   * Be smaller

   * Have a website without javascript (really)

   * Be cheaper (this one is satire) (no it&#x27;s not)

   Sure guys, why can&#x27;t someone just build you your personal phone at the same price as the iPhone whose development costs are amortized over seval billions consumers :-&#x2F;

   1. ssl-3 · 1789809873 · focus · HN ↗

      * Headphone jack for special music

      * SD card slot to store that special music

      * Multiple physical SIMs because eSIMs can&#x27;t be trusted

      * Multiple eSIMs because physical SIMs are dumb

      * LoRa for meshtastic because the network can&#x27;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.)

      1. tosapple · 1789822908 · focus · HN ↗

         drug scale for drugs?

         you&#x27;ve got it wrong,

         that scale is for measuring transactions in Au.

         1. rickydroll · 1789855910 · focus · HN ↗

            Why would you measure transactions by the distance between Earth and the Sun?

            1. ssl-3 · 1789874951 · focus · HN ↗

               Drugs?

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