The Pixel 9 Pro Fold perfectly highlights the big foldable problem – nothing is 'right' yet

SnotFlickerman , 3 hours ago (edited 3 hours ago)

highlights the big foldable problem – nothing is ‘right’ yet

This is everything these days. Products are being shipped before they’re complete just to be able to be the first to market (AI offerings most especially). It’s dogshit and it’s saddling consumers with things that are broken out of the box, because there’s no fixing a limitation of the design.

Just check out these generic automated cat litter boxes that are killing cats. Apologies for reddit link. Capitalism is just shitting out whatever as fast as it can.

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june , 2 hours ago (edited 2 hours ago)

…feeling very justified in my decision to pay $700 for the name brand automated litter machine

SnotFlickerman , 2 hours ago

Sometimes, paying more really does result in a higher quality product. It’s a shame that it’s not as often as it used to be.

Established products tend to be safer, for sure.

WoodScientist , 4 hours ago

The point of not being able to take advantage of the screen size is really interesting. I wonder why they don’t design these to fold out into something with a normal phone aspect ratio, just bigger. That way you could actually take advantage of all the screen real estate.

cron , 3 hours ago

I think its hard to have a foldable device that has a phone aspect ratio (2:1) when open and a reasonable size (and thickness) when closed.

This could only be done like the flip phone (1:1 --> 2:1) or by multiple folds (like the triple fold huawei).

Bookmeat , 3 hours ago

They made metric paper. Time to make metric phones.

manucode , 3 hours ago

1:√2 wouldn’t be the worst aspect ratio for a phone screen