Am I misinterpreting things if by quoted section you mean to say that wanting decent battery life (i.e. charge once a week) is an irrelevant usage profile?
You're assuming
decent battery life = charging once a week.
I don't really understand how someone in a first/second world country in the modern world doesn't come close to a wall socket in 4 days,
and cannot have a solar charger or a backup battery charger.
I know for a fact that if I was a smartphone manufacturer, my target would be to provide the best possible utilization for a period of 72 hours.
That leaves plenty of room for
forgetting to charge the phone overnight, unless you think it's perfectly natural that forgetting to charge it 3 nights in a row is something that phone manufacturers should take into account (note: they won't)...
C'mon.
Bulk is always a negative in a device meant to be carried all the time. As is having to remember to recharge it, wait for it to do so, and still remember that it's not in your pocket when you go out the door.
It's one thing to say bulk isn't important or battery life isn't important, and a completely different thing to state objective demands that don't reflect the actual needs of the general public (or any number-relevant public at all, to be honest).
As a comparison, anyone can say:
- It's good to have a fast car that can do large roadtrips with a single deposit
That's acceptable, but if I say I want a car that is:
- Small
- Does 0-100Km in 10 seconds
- Hits 180Km/h
- Carries 2 people
- Can do 5000Km on a single deposit
This is doable, it's basically a small light commercial van with a medium-end engine that takes fuel in the place where the luggage is.
But no car manufacturer is going to do this, no one actually
needs to do 5000Km on a single deposit, in a car that will be used in cities with tens of fuel stations in a radius of 50Km. And if
someone,
somehow needs that, they can always carry extra fuel tanks in the luggage.
And saying it's not important to make a car that does 5000Km with a single deposit is
not the same as saying autonomy isn't important. If that was true, I bet we'd all be using electric motor cars by now.
I don't know where this is coming from and what it relates to, but I do know for sure it's not representative of the worldwide market (hint: topic title).