Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017 - eviltoast
    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Well, yes, that’s how it works. What’s the problem? We should have 500 factories cranking out pollution and waste vs. the cream of the crop rising up?

      • neptune@dmv.social
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        1 year ago

        That’s not really how it works. I would bet most of these companies were building their phones in the same factories as other small time brands. It’s not like they were all making their own chips and capacitors and assembling every last piece.

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        1 year ago

        I’m mocking the fact that the articles are often written in such a way that I should feel sorry for the companies that die, like how we killed the Diamond industry and the fashion industry and gasp the napkin industry