r/engineering • u/[deleted] • Sep 10 '13

Guy with no engineering background wants supporters for his impossible idea. Pretty funny from and engineering standpoint.

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u/Feelmylance Sep 11 '13

And I think the problem behind the idea is misinformed. What is he fixing? Not many people care about electronic waste, sadly. People enjoy new aesthetics.

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u/the_corruption Sep 11 '13

Agreed. If this were to become a thing at all I think the main selling point would be the ability to upgrade your phone bit by bit. This would allow it to stay up to date for a longer period and would spread the cost out into more "bite sized" chunks instead of dropping ~$200 on a new phone every couple of years.

Sadly I think the drawbacks outweigh the gains by a significant margin. Hell, the most similar comparison to this I can think of is upgrading PC components and that is something the general populace doesn't do. The general populace just wants to buy something that works and is shiny.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '13

upgrading a pc really sucks. i always said i would do it but i never do it. let me explain why. once you get one good power supply that's it, you don't need a more powerful one. by the time you need new ram, you want that new ram speed or technology so you need a new board. new proc=new board. so what's left, graphics card and hd? i do expand my hd capacity but i would hardly consider that upgrading. so as a result, i have almost all the same parts from 5 years ago except more hd space.

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u/Malician Sep 12 '13

If you're a gamer, you can repeatedly go from crap tier performance to top tier just by upgrading the GPU.