It's any other Monday night, I was browsing the interballs (any MCM fans in the room) looking at all these other smaller brand phones coming to the front of the market. Brands like Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi (mi) are coming up fast, they might not be considered by many as a 'flagship' device, but money talks. People are buying phones for half the cost of major brands ie, Apple and Samsung with most if not all of the features seen in many true 'flagship' devices. One great example is a device some of you may know, others may look at the brand name and think.. 'huh?'
Meet the Xiaomi (Mi) Mix 2..
This phone, according to the listed specs, is the little brands big device. This device features a full screen phone and a... whaaaaaat?! A flagship device with a full body screen AND finger print authentication?! How can this be?! Apple can't do it so why can they?!
Now before we continue let me add in here that I am an android user by choice, I swapped to android after the Iphone 4. Nothing after that from Apple really caught my eye. Other brands (not just Samsung) had been releasing technologies far ahead of Apple by this point. What I don't get is Apple's speel about being the greatest full screen phone, or insinuating that they were the first to market. It really bugs me. We all know other brands (as per usual) have produced this style of device in the past.
Now where was I.. Oh that's right!
Haha you sir/madam have just been played by Apple. And this is the core topic of my post. I've been an avid watcher of Linus's videos for years, and when i watched his video about the Iphone 9 **cough** sorry i mean the Iphone X, I could think of a few points of my own to consider. Why is it that for the past few years Apple (not a brand i admire much now days) has gone from being the hero of technology, a masterpiece in its class, what WAS known as a true definition of what could be done with mobile technology, has now taken the low road waiting for other brands to do the risky work of putting technologies and/or features with little to no reputation or expectation of public response into devices. Only to find if the idea or technology succeeds too scoop up the idea with a few standardized Apple price tag increasing tweaks along the way and implement it into their new latest and greatest phone and call it a breathtaking masterpiece never seen before. And lets not even get started on the crap Apple pulled in their 'Keynote' presentation about sizing of devices and the trick's they are using to make consumers buy models with larger storage for exorbitant prices. This crap has to stop. As many of you know we cannot do much to a company of Apples size without jumping up and down, but i feel the more people can converse about the issue, the more chance there is of such issues being given light, and large companies (not just Apple) from trying to rob you of your hard earned $$.
Lets also consider the fact that Apple since the Iphone 5 has done very little to change or update their device apart from the smaller changes internally such as updates to Siri and faster fingerprint authentication times, all of which probably could of been pushed out in patches or software updates but what the hell lets make a new device out of it and charge double. And smaller changes physically like the recent change to a glass back for wireless charging and the slight movement of an antenna from one place to another just to name a couple. Seriously apple? But we have all heard this argument before. It's been said, screamed, and yelled till the tech world went blue in the face. It's now very obvious Apple does not care.
As a disclaimer, in saying all of this, I have not been hands on with this Xiaomi device and cannot tell you more than what i can read online, and therefore i cannot tell you how one device in the flesh could perform in comparison to the others.
To wrap up, it seems too me like Apple is becoming more of a money hungry fashion statement than a device that once upon a time quite literally, changed the world.
Whats your thoughts?
Regards,
JB
