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[–] Xepp@discuss.tchncs.de 100 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is because they were forced to build it with USB-C by evil Europe!

[–] ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Please edit that to say "were", it's giving me an aneurysm.

Edit: downvoted for being right, typical Lemmy.

[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Xepp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

You are absolutely right!

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolute horseshit. Nothing to be learned from n = 1 and an uncontrolled experiment.

[–] Blaubarschmann@feddit.de 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I mean this is sample size 1. Not possible to say how much the test results were affected by the phones not landing exactly the same way. Maybe one was weakened by an unlucky early drop and then shattered faster? From this, I would not generally infer that one is "better" than the other. But it is still plausible

[–] xan1242@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

In the stress test video on the JerryRigEverything YT channel, you can tell that the back is much easier to shatter than normal. That does kind of make this seem suspicious.

[–] latca@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You want the right to repair your own devices? Have fun repairing.

I don’t believe the phones are intentionally designed to be less durable and personally I applaud making the phones easier to repair. But part of me wonders if whatever changes they made to make the phone easier to repair also made it a less durable.