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OnePlus confirms shutdown in the US and Europe, ending months of speculation (arstechnica.com)
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OnePlus arrived on the scene in 2014 with brash marketing and a compelling pitch: What if your phone was cheaper and faster? More than a decade later, the market is much different, and so is OnePlus. Confirming months of rumors and speculation, OnePlus has confirmed it’s ending phone releases in North America and Europe.

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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

You either die the hero or live long enough to become the villain, somehow they died the villain and Nothing had taken their place.

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    • [–] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I want more folks to experience long 🔋 life. Oneplus 15 won the best 🔋 life award – @mkbhd. The Europeans and the North Americans have 1 less choice with this news. Will Oneplus 16 have a global version? Those not living in China can buy the Chinese version. But the 🇨🇳 version will have some cons for those not living in 🇨🇳. examples – Oneplus 15 🇨🇳 version doesn't have Gemini baked in (can be installed by the user) and esim support

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    [–] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    This is pretty sad. Oneplus phones, tablets, and watches have like double the battery of samsung / apple, at 1/3rd of the cost. Hopefully OPPO will make another branding for europe at least, because the EU still does allow chinese smartphones to be sold there. The US can just isolate itself and force its people to buy $1500 smartphones.

    Xiaomi, vivo, and oppo(oneplus's parent company) are growing pretty rapidly in market share at least.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    The US can just isolate itself and force its people to buy $1500 smartphones.

    it's getting to the point in this country that you have to buy a mobile router and get a foreign plan just so that you can avoid the price bloat and the data mining just to use the phone that you want to use.

    it sometimes makes we wish that i dgaf about privacy or rights like the overwhelming majority of americans don't.

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    [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I purchased the OnePlus 17 over the holidays, and hate it. It's so full of AI bloatware I actually purchased a third party camera app just so that my photos won't be heavily AI manipulated. It's so bad, that I have actually been considering converting back to iPhone. The last iPhone I owned was the 4.

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