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If phones were designed to please their owners, rather than corporations
Your smartphone was designed to deliver as much value as possible to its manufacturer, carrier and OS vendor, leaving behind the smallest amount of value possible while still making it a product that you'd be willing to pay for and use. But in south China, the absence of patent and copyright enforcement, combined with enormous manufacturing and design capacity, means that phones for the domestic market are wildly innovative -- more than just endless variations on glass-distraction-rectangles.
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I'd say that goes for just about everything.
Ok, I need a pokeball phone.
Just to have. I think I'd get annoyed trying to use it. But I could say I have one.