>Apple lost more ground in the shrinking smartphone market last quarter, with a sales tracker saying the tech giant was pushed off the top-three seller list by a Chinese rival.
>Android and google now have a larger chunk of the market, and there's less overall competition >Google is now more powerful TRULY BASED, LEL FUCK APPLEL
so is it a general thing or is it specifically apple?
Andrew Reyes
>Why is it shrinking? Market over saturated, new phones don't offer enough of a difference for people to upgrade often and everyone who wants a smartphone has one already.
John Mitchell
Yes, apparently people won't buy $1600 phones that don't even have a headphone jack anymore.
Isaac Hernandez
BASTE
Dylan Wilson
Practically all tech is made in China however the companies are in USA, so USA companies are putting their markup on products that take almost nothing to make. In this case the entire company is all China making it cheaper.
Nathan Lee
I have thought this for a while. I don't really see the need the keep making more and more smartphones when they last longer now, there's more than enough choice that are better than crapple. I mean honestly, what else do you really need a fucking phone to do? Check your pulse? Make you cum? Smartphones have reached their peak.
Brody Reyes
Imagine actually fucking this up...
Luke Robinson
unironically, google and apple are the only ones doing things right (as far as models, mind you). Apply only has the iPhone and they just release a new version very year. Google only has the Pixel line and they release one every year. All other companies, they have 20+ different models making consumers difficult to decide which to get. Price is another topic... companies really should just follow Google and Apple's footsteps when it comes to making models, just 1 line, make 3 different ones (1 $, 1 $$ and 1 $$$) range from shit but affordable to comfy but costly. That's it.... only release the new version where there is really a reason to, like new and improved hardware that is notably better. instead of adding something useful to phones they went backwards and out of ideas. now they are taking things away and adding useless things. (2 cameras, really?)
The thing is a lot of chinese manufacturers target poor ass markets like India and Africa, in India people were bitching because of the price of the K20 for fuck sake.
Liam Gray
Poor people buy apple for status, rich people buy cheaper Huawei models that are better in every way.
Gavin Long
Keep telling yourself that, that $400 slow lagdroid you got us only getting slower.
Chase Powell
You're an imitation of life.
Jeremiah Nguyen
I just got a shrinking smartphone and I love it.
Henry Hill
$300 budget androids completely and utterly destroy even the latest lagPhone XtraSlow
No, that’s hardly indicative of anything you autistic child
David Sanders
>global smartphone sales Who cares? The only market that matters is US.
Sent from my iPhone
Brandon Moore
Ultra based
Eli Morgan
Like in regular drugs the expensive consumerist drug is losing it's potency because the brain/body is becoming accustomed to it so many iToddlers are either fighting back against their addiction or moved on to other electronic consumerist drug.
Also many iToddlers are the kind of people who have the financial discipline of niggers so many are drowned in debt.
Logan Flores
The entire market is beginning to die now that people realize they're all being fucked in the ass by these privacy-raping piles of shit that don't even work well for anything. Please outlaw this garbage technology and let it die.
The tech is plateauing in a measurable way to consumers. Screens are ridiculously high res now, OLED everywhere, most high end phones have more than enough RAM for current use, the camera quality on flagships is pretty much as good as most normal users are going to care about.
There just isn't any big leaps coming that impress people enough to want to upgrade constantly anymore. It's not like 2009 where being a gen behind could honestly feel like using a stone age phone. The difference between a 2018 flagship and a 2020 flagship is just not going to be mind blowing for the average consumer.
Now combine a feeling of stagnating progress with a removal of features on a regular basis and the average consumer is going to look at this and see "So the new phone looks and runs about identically to my current one, but now it has no headphone jack and can't use a microSD card?" And that outlook is not going to sell anything.
Evan Thomas
Delayed response to input, dumbfuck.
The correct response is "Holy shit Apple is trying to trick me into thinking iOS has fast multitasking."
Dominic Brooks
you absolute buffoon. you complete moron.
>Input lag is used to describe the delay between an electrical input from the point of stimulation to action.
the simple fact is that apple devices feel smoother and snappier than android devices because they shit all over them in terms of touch latency.
you probably don't notice this though, because your chinese cartoons have turned your brain into a smooth paste
Luis Hall
>neglectable 30 ms difference What did ijeet mean by that?
Logan Thompson
>30ms is negligible
i assume you've never played any competitive online FPS or anything?
Luke Hall
That's happening all over the tech world m8. Imagine in 2006 saying you're running a computer from 1999. You'd get laughed out of the fucking building. Now do it, 2019 running a 2012 computer has really no noticable difference. All you have to do is upgrade the gpu to stay competitive.
Austin Hill
That's irrelevant if we talk about phones. 30ms higher lag won't matter for YouTube.
Jackson Lopez
you can clearly feel the difference with just typing.
Kevin Moore
This is happening because they kept removing features and calling it improved design. I can't remember the last time Apple did something new. They only take things away now.
Input lag is VERY noticeable in terms of responsiveness of the device. Mediated based devices for very long time had AWFUL input lag, I am sure that up to Helio P10 it was cosmic level of lag. Newer sub 300USD devices with MTC SoC also have disappointing lag, can’t say anything bout more expensive models.
Try to use SGS8 or never, then Huawei Play or P Smart and then iPhone 5/S/6 or any other never iPhone. I guarantee that Galaxy and iPhone will have 100x better touch response and any scrolling or typing will be ungodly good in comparison. Even simple thing as pinch to zoom is way better on more expensive Samsung and Apple device.
Because of this simple thing I am biased towards Galaxy and iPhone. I have to try Mi9 and p30 to see if anyone made any progress.
I am drinking water to go for round 2, dilate some more poor pajeet niggerfag cuck
Jace Reed
This seems like a good place to ask What's a good chink phone these days? My S8 took a shit and I need something that's not too expensive to replace it.
Ayden Foster
>america is waging war on china everyone buy a chinese phone >all the chinese buy a chinese phone >were waging war on china everyone buy an american phone
Anthony James
What phones are even made in America? and I don't mean assembled in America because that doesn't count if the parts are Chinese
Nathaniel Ramirez
dial 8
Charles Martin
iLag rekt
Nathaniel Richardson
>Shitsung winning in HP What has the world come to
Jayden Reed
*JP
Benjamin Wright
Everything that is put into the phones is made in China. Unless they spin up production lines for every component, now they'll have to pay for the logistics of moving components to their new production facilities.