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I wish I didn't need to buy new phones to have software security.
That in itself is such a ridiculous thing from a human perspective.
I wouldn't even buy phones for features. There were not many interesting new hardware dependent features in phones for half a decade.
Best recent cam feature was machine learning low light optimizer. Which only partially relies on specific hardware.
Usb-C is an improvement on the older much more fragile USB.
We lost expandable storage.
We lost swappable battery.
Cameras themselves did not get that much better. The sensors are so good, the only thing really improving would be be better optics that need more space.
The mic is always been okay. Sometimes a case produces acoustic coupling that creates echo, but not a phone problem.
We lost slidable hardware keyboard.
UWB was never that useful. Its usecases are cosmetic bs except for finding lost things with it. Its not that essential because there are much better lowtech workarounds to prevent losing keys.
The only thing forcing to buy new phones for me is security support.
Because software can't be perfect enough to not have exploitable holes. So we pile generic mitigations on top.
And that we depend on a huge OS controlled by a corporation with bad priorities.
Hardware sidechannels and errors too.
If all the corporations which used all their resources to gain more power, used their resources to create a good product, that might just produce something with so few logic and abstraction flaws l, that it may be essentially a finished product with guarantees. Except if quantum cheese actually happens to break asymmetric cryptography.