Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade::North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.

  • dangblingus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s almost as if, they haven’t fundamentally updated smartphones in almost a decade, and now they want $2000 for them.

    Also, it’s almost as if we’ve been in a recession for a year. Regardless of whether or not the government wants to call it a recession, we’ve had numerous back to back quarters with negative GDP growth. That’s literally a recession.

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      1 year ago

      Well there are foldables, which are growing as category, but I don’t know if it makes a net difference and anyway they’re too small to make a difference currently.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        "There are some of you who want phones that are easier to fit in a pocket, but we’ll break the deal we made with Satan if we ever build 4 inch phones again, so here’s a 6 inch phone that bends in half. The screen is so soft your stubble will ruin it and the Earth’s atmosphere is too coarse for the severely complicated hinge to survive a month. That’ll be $9900.

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          1 year ago

          Except whenever a manufacturer, including Apple, tries to market a phone that’s smaller than the average size, nobody buys them.

          The only people who actually want smaller phones are some very loud people on the internet.