Technology

Bruh this comments section is making the wrong conclusions

Clamshell design was and always will be the superior space format. There's a reason why the DS and 3DS had so much homebrew, it was practically the successor to PDAs.

Android foldables have barely scratched the surface in split screen and back screen utility, but the half size alone makes it very nice to carry.

The real issue here is that yet another small groundbreaking OEM died because Android device development is an oligopoly. Google, Samsung, Motorola, and Oppo simply took the technology the moment it was revealed and immediately made competitor devices, regardless of initial quality, to get investors excited.

No one was gonna invest in some small Chinese OEM if the big ones were gonna do the same thing and guarantee sales + existence.

This exactly why Android feature development has stalled so hard. Everyone sits around twiddling their thumbs for several generations worth of phones until another startup comes up with a new feature they can implement for cash grab. It's so bad we literally lost features like NFC bumping just to match what everyone else is doing.

If some startup made a phone with the camera shifted an inch to the center, I can guarantee you the next pixel or galaxy will have it for literally no practical reason other than to prevent competition.