All hail the true iphone killer he is shit next to Steve
All hail the iPhone killer
Nathan Bennett
Mason Miller
only americans use imessage
Blake Young
>no iMessage/FaceTime replacement
Google Messages/Duo
>no significant market penetration in the west.
Maybe not in the US, but I know multiple people who own Xiaomi phones
>no viable competition to iOS only features
Such as?
Jaxson Harris
This, in Europe everybody uses WhatsApp and some people use Telegram
Oliver Lee
What kind of lie will Apple tell to take over this idea?
Ryder James
Yep
Samuel Hall
>Google Messages/Duo
user, no larping how many people do you know who use that?
>Maybe not in the US, but I know multiple people who own Xiaomi phones
Obviously we live in the North America, which makes this option, almost completely un-viable because of carrier bands.
>no viable competition to iOS only features
Like not running Android, Android is a fucking mess, I don't get why that's a genuine thing people would want.
Ryan Rogers
>Designed in California Ass[…]
Uh huh.
Ayden Garcia
parts come from all over the world
>As Cook has said multiple times in the past, key iPhone components are manufactured in the United States. Display glass for the iPhone and iPad, made by U.S. manufacturer Corning, comes from Kentucky. The Face ID module for the iPhone X comes from Texas. Various chips for Apple devices are also built in the United States, according to Cook, as is equipment for manufacturing the iPhone.
It's just cheaper to get bulk planes to china and pay $1.70 for assembly per phone
Kevin Flores
Nobody wants this idea, which is why only Chinese manufacturers, with nothing to lose in the western markets are trying it.