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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"There are some of you who want phones that are easier to fit in a pocket, but we'll break the deal we made with Satan if we ever build 4 inch phones again, so here's a 6 inch phone that bends in half. The screen is so soft your stubble will ruin it and the Earth's atmosphere is too coarse for the severely complicated hinge to survive a month. That'll be $9900.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Except whenever a manufacturer, including Apple, tries to market a phone that's smaller than the average size, nobody buys them.

The only people who actually want smaller phones are some very loud people on the internet.