Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017

Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 557 points –
Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017
techspot.com
159

You are viewing a single comment

That’s capitalism, baby! Thanks for playing!

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?

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.

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