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Headphone jack and removeable battery for me. I always have 3 batteries in rotation, and replace the oldest one every 2 years or so.

Carry a spare in my pack and have a 3rd charging on an external charger to swap out at home.

Im currently working full time doing solar installs. I do a lot of the EE and physical design, and can edit both from my phone, whole working off of existing plans. And I can't exactly have my phone plugged in while up on a roof. So I just swap out my battery when it gets low.

The when I get home, I swap out the dead battery for the one on the charger, and plug my phone in while I sleep.

I also end up catering or 'celeb' bartending 2x a month or so during the season out here. On those days ill often swap to the 3rd battery before I go to work for the evening so I have a fresh battery and can run the music off my phone all evening, without having to worry about power.

I traded my headphone jack for a pen. I'm buying a new active USB-C-to-Jack converter every six month, because techbros fell in love with some futuristic concept image featuring a cyborg girl wearing what appears to be wireless earbuds. (At least the full transparent glass phone apocalypse is further away)

compensating for complexes behaviour, I guess

Can't you just kill him? You know, for the greater good?

One thing people who don't build products tend to imagine is that PMs are constantly doing market research, data analysis, focus groups, etc.

That may be true at some companies, but IME they can be clueless beyond belief because their real job is to be salespeople. They sell dreams to executives. Whether those will actually sell is a much lower concern.

See also: AI being shoved down everyone's throats.

Have you considered arranging an office white water rafting trip or perhaps cave diving, where a terrible misfortune may befall this person?

I’m all for this on laptops. I’ve had external monitors for so long that when I have to work using only the laptop screen, it’s difficult to be effective. It’s great that laptops are small and light but I’ll sacrifice some of that for more screen size

IR Blaster too!

Give me texture! I want to be able to grip my phone and not have it constantly slide off tables and couches because glass is so smooth.

The camera bump is insane. Scratching the lens every time you place your phone on a solid surface. I have to find a specific phone case where the lip around the camera is high enough that it’s at least the same level as the lens.

And we can't have that, can we?

--Silicon Valley Giants That Force Design Paradigms