War Of the Phone Worlds

[Jordan00191]

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

[r3loAded]

9 minutes ago, Jordan00191 said:

has now taken the low road waiting for other brands to do the risky work of putting technologies and/or features

I kind of agree with this decision as I wouldn't like to pay for a phone that's mot fully tested in all scenarios (at least the most important ones). I don't want to pay for 1st edition and then after they implement a little bit better the technology (let's say 6 month after) pay for the rev.2 edition. I'm better waiting for a better optimized phone.

 

12 minutes ago, Jordan00191 said:

call it a breathtaking masterpiece never seen before

This is what I mostly hate about them. The technology exists, already implemented on other phones, there's no need to take the bragging rights. not kewool Apple, not kewool.

 

That being said, if we can say so, I'm and Samsung fanboy. But the only thing that keeps me not buying from the competition is the camera. I love my S8 camera. I'm looking now at Pixel 2 as I've seen a couple a good reviews, and I might need to replace my S8 as I dropped it and I'm now using it with a cracked glass. Now, the thing that holds me down is the price tag of Pixel 2, being around £620 (bought my S8 used for £300 :D)

[SgtBot]

12 hours ago, Jordan00191 said:

Now before we continue let me add in here that I am an android user by choice

I'd like to say I'm an android user by choice as well, however its more like by habit. I've never owned any Apple product so I'm not exactly the most educated on the subject. The first phone I ever had was an android galaxy s that I worked all summer cleaning the neighbor's pool for. I hadn't considered an iPhone simply because the price was too high for somebody who hadn't even hit high school yet. I had that one up until my freshman or sophomore year in high school I think, and by that time had gotten into the world of rooting, custom kernels and os's, and all the other fun things to do with the open source android os. When I got my first real job and started looking into a more modern phones to buy, I did tons of research on Apple and android products alike, but it always seemed like with an iPhone you were always just paying more for less freedom and more unnecessary hand-holding. I guess I just got used to seeing each new phone I got as a new, malleable thing that I could mold and shape to fit my preference perfectly. It always seemed like Apple products lacked the deep amount of customization and personalization that had the potential to give each consumer their own unique experience tailored to what they needed in a phone. They strip away your individuality and then double the price tag it seems. Idk just some of my thoughts to add on to yours.

[r3loAded]

2 hours ago, SgtBot said:

It always seemed like Apple products lacked the deep amount of customization and personalization that had the potential to give each consumer their own unique experience tailored to what they needed in a phone

The way I see it Apple didn't want or couldn't let that happen. But by doing so the targeted different kind of customers: corporate, business people and all around people who wanted security. That's what I think when I hear about Apple: SECURITY. And it stops there. No customisation and other things that you see on Android. Also regarding the price - same target audience.