Overall I think rising top end brings a better set of issues than a race to the bottom does. With rising top end, the midrange options are sure to be at least d

Overall I think rising top end brings a better set of issues than a race to the bottom does. With rising top end, the midrange options are sure to be at least decent, but with a race to the bottom you see huge compromises and underhanded methods to offset slim margins in all but the most high end options. We’ve seen this play out in the PC market already, but at least there you always had the option of wiping the standard OS install and upgrading hardware to help mitigate shady preinstalls and compromises in cheaper products. With phones, hardware upgrades flat out aren’t possible and many are impossible or impractical to put a clean OS install on.