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>>erohea+(OP)
If this thread proves anything it’s that there is huge demand for customizable phone designs. Currently, there is total reliance on economies of scale to make standardized SKUs affordable.

Imagine if you could figure out a way of manufacturing a phone with design on demand… imagine a configurator website where you adjusted sliders and tickboxes. Headphone jack here, screen size slider all the way to the left, battery size all the way to the right, pick your color, oops you can’t have IP68 because you selected the pop-out camera…

Like variable fonts, but for hardware.

Frankly I’ve no idea how you would do it.

But that’s the level of innovation required to unlock this market.

>>jl6+tj1
It’s not even close to possible. Phones are likely the most advanced items in human history. So far beyond anything else you’d interact with. It’s only possible through hundreds of thousands of people working on mass production and research.

You could make customisable phones but they wouldn’t be anywhere near as good as mass market phones.