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OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by ColdStream »

asveikau wrote: post #284
MYEUHD wrote: post #177

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> had specs maxxed out Indeed, their 10 year old flagship has 6GB of RAM. https://www.gsmarena.com/oneplus_3-7995.php (for comparison, last year's iPhone 17 has just 8GB or RAM, 9 years later)

Phones are skimping on RAM lately because of the price spikes due to the AI boom. Phones and laptops are sometimes debuting with less RAM than their predecessors of the same brand.

Turns out the Wife and I finally upgrading late last year was a brilliant move. Have locked in the RAM advantage for a few years ahead even if personally I don't really need it.

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Post by mancerayder »

whall6 wrote: post #323
mancerayder wrote: post #316

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> 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?

Hard work is invigorating? Especially when working on something cool?

Sure, if it's an option for you. I have an issue when it's expected of everyone.

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Post by natbobc »

zorked wrote: post #295
jodacola wrote: post #290

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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?

Thinking that they can fire people at will.

Had an acquaintance that worked in strategy have to explain something similar for the Netherlands. They thought they could just cut everyone and be off the books no repercussions.

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Post by natbobc »

try-working wrote: post #304
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…

I worked in the OPPO and OnePlus HQ in Shenzhen. When I had contracts to sign, I wrote my own signature and then I had to go to some procurement person and get them to stamp it with a seal.

It’s typically called notarization but in North America it is often supplemented by a witness depending on the class of document. Many documents don’t even require that.

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Post by Neekerer »

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…

>Probably the most ridiculous example was an internal invoice or payment-submission portal. It was awful to use, but the terminology was even stranger. A submission apparently needed to be “signed” and then “sealed.”

The fapiao system has improved but still exists unfortunately.

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Post by edm0nd »

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…

996 culture seems horrible. who the heck would want to actually work like that. shit is for NPCs

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Post by ofalkaed »

internet2000 wrote: post #324
MichaelZuo wrote: post #315

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

We see the president signing things into law on TV all the time: It's a signature. Nobody's sealing things other than Maker's Mark bourbon bottles anymore.

Presidents signing stuff into law is almost always a publicity stunt (politics), once passed it becomes law in 10 days regardless if the president signed it. The exception is if it passed during the last 10 days of a session; president has to sign for it to become law so congress can know before they leave Washington. The pocket veto being a veto of inaction, president does not sign or veto a bill that was passed in the last 10 days of the session and just forgets about it in his pocket or wherever.

Many sources including government sources like to pretend that the president must sign a bill into law but it is not the case. Most of how the "news" reports on this stuff is purely political and has no connection to reality.

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Post by esalman »

It's such a shame.

OnePlus have been developer-unfriendly for a while and alienated their most loyal customers.

I still think their phones provide best bang for the buck performance- even at $700-800 considering the current smartphone market. My last three phones were OnePlus 7T, 8, and 12R. I was looking forward to 15R, but got a Razr Ultra instead since they a made the announcement.

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Post by ielillo »

annzabelle wrote: post #322
jamesfinlayson wrote: post #321

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> That sounds pretty corrupt. I live in Australia and Australia is not New Zealand... but this sounds exactly like what would happen in rural Australia - people in small towns still do handshake deals because you know and trust most people in town. Not related to business deals but a family member was flying rurally in Australia maybe 15 years ago and joked about stabbing the pilot with a 4cm nail file. The airport s…

I met someone who told me they flew domestically with a licensed hunting rifle in NZ about 10 years ago and they were told to open carry the rifle onto the plane where the flight attendant locked it up. Unrelated but Finnair's requirements for flying with doctoral swords are wonderful.

You can do it in the usa too. You need a special briefcase to lock your weapons and declare them at the counter. it’s a complicated, but possible
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