• bequirtle@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Drives me crazy how small phones died because “not enough demand” but a fragile gimmicky $2000 folding phone is perfectly commercially viable

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      12 hours ago

      All tech is killing off budget options because of the increasing percentage of wealth owned by the top 1% who will just buy the most expensive option without regard for features or practicality.

      Small phones would be cheap and cheap phones break the illusion that 2000$ phones are normal.

      It has nothing to do with demand, it’s just that the bottom 99% isn’t a profitable market segment anymore.

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        15 hours ago

        I guess the problem is that the kind of person who buys a small phone is also the kind of person who only buys a phone once every 5+ years.

        If they can’t milk you for $1000 every year they’ll just give up trying to sell you anything. :P

    • ferret@sh.itjust.works
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      16 hours ago

      Certainly has not bern a shortage of demand for the duo, people have been losing their minds over the thing