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Value. Early adopters recognize and act on it. This is how OnePlus succeeded with its first phone. No bloatware, great specs, fair price. Essential is about $2
by rrggrr 9y ago
Value. Early adopters recognize and act on it. This is how OnePlus succeeded with its first phone. No bloatware, great specs, fair price.
Essential is about $250 too expensive. It would have been enough if they had released a cheaper phone with the same specs, branding anonymity, and durability - less the attachments.
Value. Value. Value. This concept is key.
- DarronWyke 9y agoThe attachment system would be a huge selling point if it gave it the ability to do significant improvements or upgrades to the unit. But so far it appears to be a novelty thing. If they released several addons at launch to show the versatility of the system, then they'd capture the market that wants modular phones. But they didn't. The specs are nothing spectacular. It's not as great, stats-wise, as my Oneplus 3T, though a titanium body is a better selling point than an aluminium one.
- mustacheemperor 9y agoIt's telling that the main attachment being advertised at launch is a 360 camera, but the phone doesn't support Daydream.
- rrggrr 9y agoYes, the Ti body almost had me. Give me this: a Ti body phone with replaceable CPU/Memory. Give me an heirloom quality phone (like the pocketwatch of old) that has strong utility for 5 - 10 years.
- DarronWyke 9y agoUnfortunately modular phones haven't become a thing yet. Google tried that with Ara, but it's in indefinite hiatus. Of course, the next problem with making phones modular like that is a lack of standards. One developer makes the modules and keeps others from making them, thus entering the walled garden model.