In 2017, the global smartphone market had over 700 brands that were competing. In contrast, today, the number is down to almost 250.
  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    99% of phones are extremely similar, I don’t think anybody needed that many brands. Even now it sort of boils down to Apple vs Samsung vs Chinese brands for most people.

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    1 year ago

    I miss HTC. To this day, I’ve not heard a better speaker than the HTC One M8.

    Everywhere I went people who heard me play music on it were amazed that a mobile phone could sound as good as a proper iPod dock/Bluetooth speaker.

    Phone speakers since then have regressed, it sucks :-(

    • PlatinumSf@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      …? My iPhone speaker blows my old m8 speaker out of the water by a long shot. This might just be nostalgia or your current pocket pal might just have a trash speaker.

  • macallik@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    I think part of the reason is that because phones are now in the ‘matured’ part of the marketing cycle. There’s a smaller and smaller noticeable difference in performance between a $200 phone and a $1000 phone, and so companies need to compete on smaller and smaller profit margins, and against very inexpensive import brands.