Forbes’ tech coverage is shameless clickbait, especially when it comes to Apple.
The amount of articles they pump out along the lines of “Apple’s new phone/os release/computer/service/whatever has a nasty secret.” is ridiculous.
Smartphone shipments: Apple down 30%, Samsung down 8%, Huawei up 50%
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#42I bought a Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 for about $600 earlier this year to replace my old iPhone and I'm quite happy with it. iPhone is sticking with that notch design that I really hate, and it made me started to explore other options. Mi Mix 3 and Honor Magic 2 has a sleek slider design that removed the need to put front facing camera directly on the screen. It's nice to have more options
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#43Is it that hard to admit that Apple products can no longer command a premium among its competitors? The company is now in a great trouble into irrelevancy because of years' inaction.
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#44Apple has been raising prices even with diminishing demand. In Europe iPhones are more than €1000, and besides a few people most don't see any value in newer models anymore and just stick to their current model for as long as possible. When they buy a new one, most people choose a budget model because nowadays they work just as well (I guess Huawei's growth makes sense, then). Personally, I also find all new iPhones…
It seems a strategy so obvious and obviously doomed to fail, but I have to assume Apple know what they're doing.
I think they're taking the same route on other product lines, the MBP particularly stands out for me - most don't seem want recent "innovations" used to justify runaway price increases.
I'm certainly watching this space with interest.
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#45That's probably because smartphones are way too expensive. Huawei and Xiaomi sold a lot of phones because their phone are good enough not to make people miss iphones and stuff yet cost only a fraction. Personally, I got a brand new Xiaomi phone for 200 euros off Amazon with a 4-core cpu, 5.5 inches display, 64 gb storage and 4 gb ram. So far it served me good and has done everything I've needed. I got an iPhone 6 fro…
> That's probably because smartphones are way too expensive.
I used to buy new phones every generation when they were $3-400.
And back then that money would land you a noticeably better phone, usually with some new capabilities.
These days “good” phones are $1000+ and each generation only gets you better specs.
Fuck that. I’m keeping my working phone. Peak smartphone was probably 3-5 years ago. Since then there’s been nothing really new.
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#46Isn't it likely every Huawei is backdoored by the Chinese government?
Isn't it likely every phone sold in the US is backdoored by the US government? I'm honestly not sure what to do about phones these days. It's getting to the point where I don't want one, but I essentially need one for work.
Isn’t that demonstrably untrue given terrorist attacks and shootings that go undetected even though evidence was later found on their phones?
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#47I suspect Apple will be happy to keep taking 80%-90% of the profit in the marketplace while only shipping 20% of units.
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#48That's probably because smartphones are way too expensive. Huawei and Xiaomi sold a lot of phones because their phone are good enough not to make people miss iphones and stuff yet cost only a fraction. Personally, I got a brand new Xiaomi phone for 200 euros off Amazon with a 4-core cpu, 5.5 inches display, 64 gb storage and 4 gb ram. So far it served me good and has done everything I've needed. I got an iPhone 6 fro…
> Personally, I got a brand new Xiaomi phone
Make sure to go over apps preinstalled (system apps) and disable them or take away their network permission, if nothing else.
NetGuard, NoRoot Firewall, Glasswire are some of the apps that let you do that.
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#49Isn't it likely every Huawei is backdoored by the Chinese government?
Not likely anymore. "Evil China" is getting way more leverage by being able to shrug and say: "sure, show us the evidence, oh, btw, `Snowden'" whenever the US try to play the trustworthiness card.
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#50That's probably because smartphones are way too expensive. Huawei and Xiaomi sold a lot of phones because their phone are good enough not to make people miss iphones and stuff yet cost only a fraction. Personally, I got a brand new Xiaomi phone for 200 euros off Amazon with a 4-core cpu, 5.5 inches display, 64 gb storage and 4 gb ram. So far it served me good and has done everything I've needed. I got an iPhone 6 fro…
> Personally, I got a brand new Xiaomi phone Make sure to go over apps preinstalled (system apps) and disable them or take away their network permission, if nothing else. NetGuard, NoRoot Firewall, Glasswire are some of the apps that let you do that.
Why? Because it's Chinese?
The amount of Sinophobia on here is ridiculous.