On Saturday, 15 September 2018 at 15:25:55 UTC, Joakim wrote:
You've probably heard of the possibly apocryphal story of how
Blackberry and Nokia engineers disassembled the first iPhone
and dismissed it because it only got a day of battery life,
while their devices lasted much longer. They thought the
mainstream market would care about such battery life as much as
their early adopters, but they were wrong.
It they'd ask me they would have known. I was a very late adopter
of mobile phone and got my first phone in 2000. It was the used
Siemens E10D of my brother. It had maximum 1 day of battery life.
Then I got at work an Alcatel then a Nokia with ludicrously long
battery life, nearly 2 weeks. Result -> my Siemens was always
charged properly and I was always reachable. With the others,
they were always crapping out on me at the most inapropriate
times. With the short battery life, you would never forget to put
it on charge. With the long battery life, you would always wait
till it's too late.
