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Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade (arstechnica.com)
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Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade::North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is nothing new and exciting coming out. I remember buying the first smart phone, that was really cool and exiting. Now they are like televisions, nothing exciting about them anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, there were improvements that legit made the experience much better. Going with your TV example, changes between CRT and LCD is huge.

Nevertheless, there's no reason to but a new one very year.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That switch was more than 10 years ago.