If I thought like one of those companies I would say:
- Making room for a bigger battery, bigger cameras and stuff like a wireless charging coil that reliably gets good reviews,
- Not enough people using them, so "a sacrifice I'm willing to make" to lower costs of production and reducing phone variants,
- Declaring those features outdated and deciding that now is the time to force people to "upgrade" to built-in storage or cloud services,
- Upselling built-in storage and wireless devices, establishing a walled garden and creating a more steady source of revenue,
- Dumb shit like wanting the sides to be as seamless as possible
I find it ironic that AES gets lampooned for its lack of variety in consumer goods, meanwhile corporations are continuously killing off their more niche variants and reducing consumer choice.
Hi, I read some of the resources that were linked in the replies. I was taken aback by your claims at first and the medical journal article in particular gave a good explanation of the points about weight loss and ties to racism you made.
I stand on the opposite end of the spectrum: I'm naturally thin, work out and basically follow intuitive eating without realising it. So I felt a little awkward witnessing the mess down there, because I know that I have this privilege, that I still have prejudices inherited from my social upbringing and that biology is messy and often counterintuitive.
I probably will get things wrong from time to time, but I'll try my best not to, and to respond well to criticism if I do.
I guess what I want to say is thank you for making the post.