I loved LG's phones but disqualified myself from any future purchases after they basically told their users to GFYS during the boot-loop fiasco.
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LG Considering Exit From Smartphone Business, Halts LCD Production for iPhone
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Only LG phone I've ever had was the Nexus 4 with the sparkly back. Too bad they couldn't hang with Samsung in mobile but they're doing well in OLED TV. My next monitor/TV will likely be a 2021 LG OLED.
Strange your co-worker keeps buying them knowing they always have problems.
I had a Nokia 5 a couple of years ago as a work phone-it was great in terms of regular security updates and being as close to ‘pure’ Android as possible but when it came to battery life and overall performance it showed, sadly.
Apple should buy them and start an Android line. Play both sides to sell services.
I'd honestly love to just see them selling software for Android. iWork and Notes and such on a Galaxy Note might .... MIGHT make me jump back over.
The bigger problem would be the 3rd party apps I've come to love.
True, and you beat me to the punch. Though I was going to compare LGs terrible marketing team to Sony's (smartphone) team.
Sad to see less competition, but the android market was too full to be honest. I'm surprised to see LG, Sony, and Xiaomi and the likes holding on. Though, I'm sure the latter is more popular outside of the US. I do believe Apple should buy that division as well, and bring iPhone screen manufacturing in house.
Only LG phone I've ever had was the Nexus 4 with the sparkly back. Too bad they couldn't hang with Samsung in mobile but they're doing well in OLED TV. My next monitor/TV will likely be a 2021 LG OLED.
I had that too! Slid off every bit of furniture, until I got a case for it.
My LG G4 introduced me to the marvel that was double tap. Amazing and took a long time for others to do similar.
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I never understand posts like this saying, "Apple should buy this, Apple should buy that". Firstly it's not that simple or that cut n' dry. You can't just up and buy a company if it's not for sale. Secondly just buying a company is not the solution to every problem, plus if Apple keeps buying outside companies they will be accused of monopolizing and being anti-competitive.
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Too bad, LG is one of the few major smartphone manufacturer that actually tries new things beyond the same old candybar design
This is such a important point that people arguing on the internet never seem to understand the very simply economics of. The point of any business is to make a return, not make a billion things and make no money from them. As industries mature, rents (in the economic sense) go to zero, meaning you have no above average returns (you can do better taking your money and investing in some other industry), and firms naturally exit the industry. There is some "natural" number of firms that can sustain themselves, but fundamentally it becomes a commodity business. Let's not kid ourselves, non-iPhone phones are nothing more than a commodity, and no one except Apple makes rents (because Apple can practice monopolistic competition like the way restaurants do). No sane company should want to enter this market, and all sane firms should consider exiting this market in pursuit of better opportunities elsewhere just like LG is doing with all their other ventures.There’s this faux perception on this forum that if you do a good, best-in-class, outstanding, revolutionary or otherwise killer product you automatically will be successful as a business. Things are much more complex than that thou.
Even if you sell massive amounts of a product and gain sizable market share, you can still be bleeding money and not be viable.
This is not about LG not innovating, not doing great phones and quality builds, I would say it has nothing to do with sells being low even, or not marketing properly.
The premium bracket of smartphones is cornered with Apple taking in 80-90% of the profits of the whole worldwide smartphone business and the rest 20-10% left to scramble by a myriad of manufacturers on all price brackets, from $50-80 USD borderline dumb android phones all the way up to $2K foldables.
Think about this for a second. Then, include all the emerging value-oriented Chinese manufaturers into the equation and you’ll see how even Samsung might be in trouble going forward.
Apple Continues To Dominate The Smartphone Profit Pool
Apple’s share of the smartphone market profits is over four times larger than Samsung, its closest competitor, and most of the Chinese smartphone companies operate at a breakeven level.www.forbes.com
Among Apple devices alone, LG components reportedly had far worse quotas in relation to quality (display panels mostly) where people even went to lengths and checked what display they had, and some defects were even completely isolated to LG hardware. Not to mention that display panels from LG looked significantly different and colors being washed out the older the tech was - most noticably in MBA TN panels from 2013 and earlier.
If their yield is too low, of course it looks bad for a customer like Apple who wants to stress the quality of their devices, and they have to put out quality programs to keep it under control. That too costs Apple and they surely don‘t want to tank that side of the coin.
Seems like they have invested heavily in R&D with these newest displays. I would think they could license that tech to another manufacturer if they don't sell the handset division to another company.
This is disappointing. I think the last thing the consumer needs is less competition.
Oh, I'm sure they exist out in the wild. Most people who own them are too embarrassed to display them in public.
They make most OLED displays. I have three of their TV's and they're awesome.
The fact that LG's smartphone sales had greatly declined means they weren't competition in the first place.
One thing is to manufacture the phone, but, whats the point of that, that there is no force driving the sales. Like, literally- none.
Haven't seen in LG phones in wild, either in shop for sale or in someones hands, for at least 3 years, no ads, no exposure, no coverage, no information, no relevancy at all.
It is what it is, biggest part of the market is already taken by iPhone, Samsung and maybe some biggest Chinese phones in some regions. Really tough to change that.
The problem is how much profit does Samsung make from phones? They chase quantity/marketshare but at what cost/profit?