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0 pointsuniq78mo ago0 comments

How can KPIs from Google/Apple/Meta/X have any impact on the products third-party Android phone manufacturers decide to sell?

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pclowes8mo ago

I think most major players have the same incentives and minor players don't have the economies of scale to make it work economically.

Also the longer I used my iphone mini and the rest of the world moved to comically large phones the more it became apparent that nobody is thinking about small screen form factors in design and when they do its only around ad placement.

bondarchuk8mo ago

But, for example, what is the money flow from google/advertising in general to Motorola, that makes them not want to release a small screen model in their lineup of cheap phones?

TheDong8mo ago

Instagram, Tiktok, and Google have gotten users addicted to consuming content, and larger screens help with that.

We are helplessly addicted to digital cocaine, and so we demand large phones, and so motorola will not make money selling a small phone.

It's like the parent said: our addiction is the product, and so just like a chain-smoker will say "I want to quit" as they buy 5 packs a day, a modern smartphone user will say "I want a smaller screen and to look at ads less" as they hopelessly buy a 10 inch phablet and can't go 5 minutes without pulling it from their pocket to check tiktok.

It is not that the money from advertising flows, it is that the addicted users have already been ruined, and will not buy the devices they say they want.

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