I might be alone in this but that felt like a long-winded way of saying very little about the current state of oneplus.
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Don't really care what this Elon butt sniffer thinks about anything anyways.
Yes, it was really just an "enthusiast's" opinion on the history of the company. He referenced the older TechAltar video at the beginning and that was a much better, if more generalised, discussion. I'd actually be more interested to hear about the "downfall" of Nothing, since it's a newer brand I haven't really followed much and one that was sort of established in response to the "downfall" of OnePlus.
Nothing if anything should be punished with failure for not using flagship processors. It’s absolutely insane to not even give the option.
OnePlus certainly aren't having a "downfall" in my opinion. The latest OnePlus 15, although it has worse cameras, has a way bigger battery and still has the latest Snapdragon chip. The "Sandstone" finish also seems pretty cool, it's nice that they're experimenting with materials like that. The price hikes are not very nice though, but that's not really a specific issue of OnePlus, just general corporate greed from all smartphone manufacturers. OnePlus is certainly changing their target demographic away from camera-centric people like Marques, but that's hardly a "downfall". They are still selling a bunch of phones in many markets.
Please note that I am not a corporate parrot of OnePlus espousing corporate propaganda. OnePlus is doing many things wrong, with OxygenOS basically becoming the AI-filled iOS-like-in-all-the-wrong-ways ColorOS, following the price hike trend, etc.
They got bought out and picked apart for scrap
https://techstory.in/oneplus-phones-reportedly-no-more-as-oppo-pulls-the-plug/
This has no verifiable source and was obviously written by AI.
I had the very original when they were “great”
They weren’t reliable and certainly weren’t worth buying subsequent models. They certainly marketed themselves as being pro consumer.
Android as a platform mostly just seems to exist to extract wealth via data harvesting anyway. If it’s not google it’s another company. Maybe this is all commercial “smart” devices and oses too.
The one plus one blew any competition far and away. It was an amazing phone and was very cheap. But as all things go, they used their success to start making higher profits.
You had to fuck with it from time to time. It was very much a poweruser type device for people who wanted to tinker with shit.
It's the kind of thing I can happily use, but also the type of thing that is not generally a commercial success compared to models they likely want to benchmark against in MBA land.
Will definitely say that back then, smartphone choices were limited and mostly shit.