Yep. Not good.
Agreed! I used webOS on Palm for a bunch of years (Palm Pre, Palm Pixi). That OS and those devices were ahead of its time in many ways. First to have a cards-based UI for multitasking and notifications, first to merge SMS and IP-based messaging apps into a single unified experience, first to have good magnetic wireless charging. I thought with proper resources and marketing, it could have survived as the third mobile OS (especially since Microsoft was totally floundering at the time).
Even though I knew it was probably never going to happen I'd always hoped that they would release phones with webOS after they bought it from HP. Still their webOS smart TVs are great and they've open sourced webOS now.
That is completely true. Japan, China and Singapore are all working on 6G. I was reading the it might be in the THz region.
I had a Nexus 4. The camera lens fell off along with the back plastic piece that was glued to the back cover. I barely used that phone a for a year because it was one of the worst I ever owned. I ended up buying a Note 4 and a Note Edge before the year was over.
I use a G3 as a shim to angle my iPad for webex meetings.
I don't know anyone who has had good luck with their appliances (with the exception of TVs). My parents have a refrigerator, oven, microwave, and dishwasher from LG and they've had to repair faulty parts on all of them multiple times. A family friend just got rid of her LG refrigerator due to issues and the lack of local servicing options. I have an LG washer and dryer set that came with my house and the dryer drum cracked just outside of warranty and the motor on the washing machine died last week (also just outside of warranty). I've spent the last week calling every repair shop in the area and none will touch LG appliances (one specifically said LG was not great to deal with). The only place I could find that would service them is almost 2 hours away so they won't come to my house. One of the local appliance stores told me that they dropped LG a few years ago because of the reliability problems and the lack of anybody to repair them in the area.
"Incredibly competitive" in the sense that only a couple of companies are able to compete in the market nowadays, effectively making it a duopoly in many countries, not "competitive" in the sense that there's a broad, diverse market. If it was the latter, LG wouldn't be dropping out.
True. Fortunately or unfortunately, the lay people don't really care/know about updates. The growing markets are more price sensitive, and the cheaper Chinese phones are winning for best bang for the buck. People don't care about skin, duplicate apps, etc. As long as the phone looks good, they can install whatsapp and their favorite games, they're good.
Lenovo/Motorola and Nokia are not doing that great internationally. Motorola have pulled out from my country, and Nokia only gets to release few low end models and 2G feature phones.
