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Your phone, built for you?

submitted by iaui

8 years 9 months 1 week ago

An interesting investigation of our mobile phone's purpose and engineering by taking a look at the devices created by a culture that places no emphasis on copyright, patents, or trademarks.

From the source:

The phone lies at the foundation of 21st century human (and non-human) communication, and shapes these exchanges for the hand, for the eye, and in the mind.

5 Comments

Patent Law has completely stifled innovation and development. We're being held back technologically, so a few can profit off us.

teebeenz says...

This video has lots of talking but no actual content.

Yeah, all those phones look cool and interesting, but their OS's are unusable pieces of crap. And the batteries are 1000% more likely to explode (still rare though), compared to a phone design that goes through proper QA.

I loved the brick phone with the touch screen. That was immensely retro.

Okay, so what was the point again? The Chinese design different varieties of phones and ignore trademarks and copyrights and build phones in sweatshops, and we should aspire to achieving that higher level of evolution?

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