re: Android Police: Android flagships need more competition.

I watched that video. Numbers are numbers.

I like having a phone jack for backup and for travel/flights. I'm pretty stationary so mobile is not a concern in that case.


I still say some of the lack of innovation is because there is less competition here. There are great phones overseas. Xiaomi and Oppo, as I wrote elsewhere, make great phones. Nothing 2 is a great budget phone. There are others. However, they don't sell them here because as Carl Pei put it, the carrier stranglehold. Carriers aren't interested in carrying but a few manufacturers and subsidize the big 2. The unlocked market isn't really large enough to tempt them. Look at Oppo's Oneplus. Great phones. Great hardware. Partnering with Leica for the cameras. Can't make a dent here. Hell, in my area, I wouldn't be able to use it with Cspire or mine, Xfinity Mobile.

Less competition means less innovations and here we are.

Apple is on the right track though as it tries to turn its phones and wearables into semi-medical devices.

The folds are promising but damn, the price is high and the cameras are subpar compared to the phones. And as I said about Oneplus's phones, its fold is not going to work on some carrier networks.