LG will shut down smartphone business in July to focus on smart home, robotics 📦

25    05 Apr 2021 14:12 by u/Banned_Redditor

14 comments

9 u/MyThoughtsAndOpinions 05 Apr 2021 15:11
It's a shame, there needs to be as much competition to Apple and Samsung as possible. Even if they do make good phones, consumers need choice and the market shouldn't be dominated by one or two companies
6 u/None 05 Apr 2021 15:14
Maybe they should have not tried to compete at the same game. Why won't one of these companies release a phone that is unlocked for any Operating system, with a m.2 drive slot for up-gradable storage? A reparable phone? No one wants a foldable screen that is gonna break in a year or a phone that is as thin as a sheet of paper.
1 u/CaptianObvious 05 Apr 2021 19:15
An M2 slot alone will make the thing a brick. Other components being easily swapped out makes it worse. You can't be thin and easily repairable / upgradable.
1 u/None 05 Apr 2021 19:46
Who needs a paper thin phone? I want a brick with a m2 drive and a removable battery and a head phone jack.
-1 u/CaptianObvious 06 Apr 2021 14:14
Obviously most people do. You may be an outlier, so go build one yourself because there is no money in it for a company to do so.
1 u/None 06 Apr 2021 14:20
How would you know? No company has built one. Everyone is trying to take away features like removable batteries, head phone jacks, finger print readers , removable storage. Give me a slightly thicker phone with all those features and that’s my dream phone.with a good screen and cpu.
-1 u/CaptianObvious 06 Apr 2021 14:23
>How would you know? No company has built one. You answered your own question. They do a shit ton of research as to what people want.
1 u/None 06 Apr 2021 14:29
Nobody wanted to lose the headphone hack. Nobody wants phones that cannot be repaired. Samsung and Apple use market dominance to sell phones that need to be upgraded every 2 years
-1 u/CaptianObvious 06 Apr 2021 14:31
Glad that you can speak for everyone in the world. Obviously you're wrong. It is what YOU want. Please don't force those stupid specs on others.
1 u/Imperator 10 Apr 2021 13:34
I have a phone with M.2 slot and swappable battery and it is not a brick by any stretch of imagination. It actually feels better to hold it as compared to super thin samsungs.
4 u/None 05 Apr 2021 23:45
They used to be super repairable, so I always bought their phones. Once they went the same route as all the other brands I just went with whatever was cheapest.
2 u/CaptianObvious 05 Apr 2021 19:13
i.e. focus on nothing.
1 u/salty69 06 Apr 2021 01:52
Could this be due to the semiconductor shortage?
-1 u/ruqs_user 05 Apr 2021 16:31
Good riddance and good news.