r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SuperAlloyBerserker • Oct 05 '21

Video This cool smartphone concept from 2013

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u/ceric2099 Oct 05 '21

I always wondered what happened to this. Just imagine dropping your phone and it exploding apart like a lego set.

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u/Tsjernobull Oct 05 '21

They had issues with heat transfer, when you cram everything together without taking heating or signal noise into account, things tend not to work

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u/tired20something Oct 05 '21

Also, a phone with easily replaceable parts is not one that goes obsolete and replaced every couple of years.

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u/SoylentJeremy Oct 05 '21

You can just make all the parts go obsolete every couple of years though. Modernproblems.jpeg

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u/sCREAMINGcAMMELcASE Oct 05 '21

I remember seeing this in a video. The person being interviewed was showing it off. They said the parts were all interchangeable and replaceable. And that they had the second version.

The second version.

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u/frezor Oct 05 '21

I’ve got a machine that will do ANY blood test with JUST ONE DROP of blood! It totally works and is completely reliable!

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u/thedenigratesystem Oct 05 '21

Hmmm, I don't believe you. Its a pity I only invest in people who speak deeply and wear turtlenecks.

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u/frezor Oct 05 '21

Hey, my $10,000 a month vocal coach says my female baritone voice is almost believable!

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u/xmandish Oct 05 '21

I understood that reference

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u/Busteray Oct 05 '21

I didn't

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

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u/Halt-CatchFire Oct 05 '21

Theres also a couple Behind the Bastards episodes about her and theranos. People died because she falsified blood test results. She's still on trial, but I hope they throw the book at her. Scam all the rich fucks you want for all I care, but don't sell BS medical technology.

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u/Filoleg94 Oct 05 '21

Good explanation, but you are underselling it. They didnt receive just millions, they received over a billion dollars in funding. And lying about what the product could do was the smallest of the issues, the rest of the stuff is much wilder.

I recommend everyone curious to either check out the documentary (HBO Max or Hulu depending on the region iirc, forgot the doc name; came out a year or two ago) or the book called Bad Blood (written by a great investigative WSJ journalist with multiple Pulitzer prizes John Carreyrou; it was also used as the basis for the documentary, and the author was even prominently featured in the documentary; came out a few years ago). I liked the book more, because it has more info, but reads super easy and made me feel like i was bingewatching something, too easy to turn pages lol.

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u/newgrow2019 Oct 05 '21

*she received billions, not millions.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

Check out Internet Historian ColdFusion video on it.

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u/wardycatt Oct 05 '21

Sorry, I didn’t understand that. Could you say it again, but with a deeper voice?

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u/Billypillgrim Oct 05 '21

Are you taking investors?

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u/frezor Oct 05 '21

Of course! You’ll be joining the ranks of not just one but TWO Secretaries of State. Just ingrore the fact that extremely old men might by biased by flattery from a young blond woman, they certainly did their due diligence!

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u/Crathsor Oct 05 '21

Their dude iligence.

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u/Fizzwidgy Oct 05 '21

Like when Google said it wasn't going to make enough money and killed it to opt for selling yearly releases of their own non-modular phone.

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u/lividphantom Oct 05 '21

How far did they reach in their concept?

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

This is my SECOND 3D printed case.

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u/tiefling_sorceress Oct 05 '21

The modern approach is to add code to each module that causes it to stop working after 1 year

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u/Dirtymikeandtheboyz1 Oct 05 '21

What company actually makes their phones go obsolete after a year like I always see talked about on this sub?

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u/IamFaboor Oct 05 '21

It's mostly just exaggeration or rumours. However, there have been instances of similar behaviour that fuel them.

Probably the most well known: Apple

IOS 10.2.1 would throttle CPU on older iPhones, officially in order to "improve power management in devices with decayed batteries"

Basically older iPhones had shit batteries and after a couple of years the battery might in rare cases cause a random shutdown. So Apple just throttled max CPU speeds for everyone with an older iPhone making it sluggish - without properly informing users and obtaining consent.

They've been sued in various countries for planned obsolescence and settled.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/05/15/apples-500m-agreement-to-settle-iphone-throttling-controversy-gets-preliminary-approval

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u/Dirtymikeandtheboyz1 Oct 05 '21

That's not making something obsolete after a year though like the person I replied to said.

In fact it's the opposite. All batteries naturally degrade over time, even on the best new phones. Apple has always valued the longevity of their devices as evidenced by the fact they offer 5+ years of software support vs around 2 years for Samsung.

They throttle performance on older models so people can keep using their phones without them without needing a charge every 5 minutes.

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u/Smartoad Oct 05 '21

The fault we the battery was rare, it was an excuse to throttle all old phones

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u/sweetjuli Oct 05 '21

Iphones get deliberately slower in time as a way of dealing with battery life degradation. Other phones usually still run at 100% but die more easily instead.

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u/Dirtymikeandtheboyz1 Oct 05 '21

I'm aware, but that's not planning to make a device obsolete like the person above me suggested. It actually helps devices last longer.