• Prove_your_argument@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    I had the very original when they were “great”

    They weren’t reliable and certainly weren’t worth buying subsequent models. They certainly marketed themselves as being pro consumer.

    Android as a platform mostly just seems to exist to extract wealth via data harvesting anyway. If it’s not google it’s another company. Maybe this is all commercial “smart” devices and oses too.

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      The one plus one blew any competition far and away. It was an amazing phone and was very cheap. But as all things go, they used their success to start making higher profits.

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        You had to fuck with it from time to time. It was very much a poweruser type device for people who wanted to tinker with shit.

        It’s the kind of thing I can happily use, but also the type of thing that is not generally a commercial success compared to models they likely want to benchmark against in MBA land.

        Will definitely say that back then, smartphone choices were limited and mostly shit.