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Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by inigyou »

annzabelle wrote: post #309
jodacola wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Appreciate the insight. I'm really quite curious about the inverse of this from the US. HNers who don't live in the US but have worked for a US company trying to do business in local markets: what weird US-centric idiosyncrasies have you seen companies and US-based leadership foisting upon local markets?

Tangentially related, but I work for a New Zealand company that does civil engineering work, including some in the US. There's a lot of localization that we have to do around roads being much wider and different materials being used, but the main idiosyncrasy is that in New Zealand we can just call people up on the phone or via email and arrange contracts, but for large jurisdictions in the US there is a competitive…

> the main idiosyncrasy is that in New Zealand we can just call people up on the phone or via email and arrange contracts,

That sounds pretty corrupt. I've recently commented that countries with lower corruption perceptions probably have more corruption, and New Zealand is one of the lowest.

Unless you're some kind of competitively approved supplier that's chosen by default because you consistently do good work.

Why are you randomly wanting to go to an airport to measure sinkholes to calibrate a device? Why can't you make an artificial calibration sinkhole for your sinkhole meter, why do US airports have sinkholes, and why do you expect the airport to pay you for calibrating your sinkhole meter?

Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by inigyou »

jodacola wrote: post #290
adamsmark wrote: post #264

I worked for OnePlus a few years ago, managing its Amazon account. The culture leaned heavily toward 996: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. I was there during a particularly tumultuous period, and by that point a lot of the staffing had already been hollowed out. That said, the OnePlus 11, 12, 13, and 15 are great phones. The 13 and 15 in particular have insane battery life. I have never managed to drain either one…

Appreciate the insight. I'm really quite curious about the inverse of this from the US. HNers who don't live in the US but have worked for a US company trying to do business in local markets: what weird US-centric idiosyncrasies have you seen companies and US-based leadership foisting upon local markets?

Subway has ordering kiosks that barely work and take longer than telling the employee your order.

Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by belowavgiq »

dminik wrote: post #235
inigyou wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People need to stop caring about warranties so much. Don't overpay, and have emergency funds. If you break something, fix it or replace it. When someone dropped my phone and cracked the screen, I spent 300€ on a new phone. Not 3000€ because I'm not an idiot.

Thanks for calling me an idiot I guess ... I mean, I don't particularly understand how "caring about warranty" goes against what you've written after that. Replacing something for free is surely better than doing so for $300 dollars, no? Are you saying I should have installed GrapheneOS on the phone, possibly discovered that the phone has hardware issues and then go out to buy another phone because I have an emergenc…

Just don't listen to someone who tells you that you need a custom ROM to have a phone not suck in 2026. Google's hardware has been middling (camera sensors, display) to downright trash (the Tensor SoCs) ever since the P6, and GrapheneOS won't magically make its modem Qualcomm or even Mediatek.

Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by annzabelle »

inigyou wrote: post #311
annzabelle wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tangentially related, but I work for a New Zealand company that does civil engineering work, including some in the US. There's a lot of localization that we have to do around roads being much wider and different materials being used, but the main idiosyncrasy is that in New Zealand we can just call people up on the phone or via email and arrange contracts, but for large jurisdictions in the US there is a competitive…

> the main idiosyncrasy is that in New Zealand we can just call people up on the phone or via email and arrange contracts, That sounds pretty corrupt. I've recently commented that countries with lower corruption perceptions probably have more corruption, and New Zealand is one of the lowest. Unless you're some kind of competitively approved supplier that's chosen by default because you consistently do good work. Why…

We have a lot of long term connections in the industry in NZ. I'm simplifying a little, but the process for a district council to hire us to do the same thing the next district council over paid us to do last year is relatively straightforward.

The sinkhole thing is a really long story, and a lot of it is that my boss is an old, eccentric, PhD who has zeroed in on this.

LaGuardia has sinkholes because it's built on a crazy substructure of rotting wooden pilings and metal framework.

We don't expect them to pay us, my boss (remember, 70 year old Kiwi) thinks you can just call airports up and get on the runway. To be entirely fair, if a sinkhole opened up at Invercargill airport, we could be on the runway tomorrow, and probably next week at Christchurch. He just doesn't realize that NYC is not the South Island.

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Post by MichaelZuo »

snozolli wrote: post #298
MichaelZuo wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesnt make sense as an example. Nearly everyone on HN would be aware of the great seal of the United States? That all formal diplomatic letters are still sealed with to this very day, without exception. Maybe it’s just a mental shock that HQ would demand that level of formality for more mundane things?

Nearly everyone on HN would be aware of the great seal of the United States? That thing I see on podiums and backdrops? That all formal diplomatic letters are still sealed with to this very day, without exception. Why would anyone here know this? We've probably all seen media depicting a medieval king pressing a seal into wax, but it doesn't mean we're familiar with it as a modern legal or procedural thing. Japan has…

Because there’s no reason to automatically assume the USA stopped using the great seal on the most formal stuff?

Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by mancerayder »

adamsmark wrote: post #264

I worked for OnePlus a few years ago, managing its Amazon account. The culture leaned heavily toward 996: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. I was there during a particularly tumultuous period, and by that point a lot of the staffing had already been hollowed out. That said, the OnePlus 11, 12, 13, and 15 are great phones. The 13 and 15 in particular have insane battery life. I have never managed to drain either one…

> The culture leaned heavily toward 996: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week

Why stay there even ONE week, unless you were very senior?

Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by [deleted] »

Aurornis wrote: post #122
rock_artist wrote: post #41

I'm not sure as others why others feel this is a major change. OnePlus was always a subsidiary by Carl Pei [1] who eventually left the brand to create a new gadgets/tech company. Nothing [2] is the next project he started that keeps many of the ideas started with OnePlus, good value for money and aim for quality Android. Bootloader also seems to allow unlocking [3] In recent years OnePlus was just another Chinese pho…

> I'm not sure as others why others feel this is a major change. Because the phones where available in US and Europe and now they won’t be? That’s a major change. You can say the company was changing over time, but a move like this is a major change. I don’t understand how you’d think this wasn’t a major change.

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Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by fishfasell »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #174
rock_artist wrote: post #41

I'm not sure as others why others feel this is a major change. OnePlus was always a subsidiary by Carl Pei [1] who eventually left the brand to create a new gadgets/tech company. Nothing [2] is the next project he started that keeps many of the ideas started with OnePlus, good value for money and aim for quality Android. Bootloader also seems to allow unlocking [3] In recent years OnePlus was just another Chinese pho…

Nothing looks like a decent replacement for OnePlus for phones, but it doesn’t look like they’ve tackled tablets yet which is unfortunate. Though I never bought one, OnePlus’ tablets have long been on my radar because they’re one of the few Android tablets that use a sensible, more squarish aspect ratio (similar to that of iPads) instead of the awkwardly tall/skinny 16:9/16:10 shape popular in the industry.

Currently, Nothing's offering is just mid-tier budget phones. They seem good for what they are but not great. They get mediocre reviews.
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