Re: Innovation vs "innovation"
At a battery fail every two years, the cost of ownership of a device priced at a grand is five hundred notes a year. That's bloody outrageous
Well, there's your problem. Not the two year life span, but spending a grand on a bleeding phone. Get yourself a Xiaomi Note 4X, and see what £160 buys you. Admittedly a similar sized iPhone beats it on paper, but here in the real world the Xiaomi has a good camera, takes an SD card, has a monster battery that is a fiddle to replace, but isn't glued in (ten minutes to replace) , has an octa core processor, 3.5mm jack, full suite of GPS, compass, fingerprint sensor. Feels well built, works really well.
Apple (and to an extent Samsung) have been really successful in one respect that they don't get much credit for: Stopping loyal customers realising what stonking value is coming from some quite large companies they've never heard of.
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