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Unfortunately it's a bandwagon effect. If you don't have the latest processor (and another major flagship does), you're behind, regardless of actual performance
by Kirby64 7y ago
Unfortunately it's a bandwagon effect. If you don't have the latest processor (and another major flagship does), you're behind, regardless of actual performance benefits.
- reaperducer 7y agoThe number of people outside of HN who buy a phone based on the processor is vanishingly small. It's not like when Intel's advertising told everyone they should feel bad if they didn't have a Pentium in their desktop boxes. If you ask people what processor is in their current phone, 99.99999999999% will have no idea.
- tudelo 7y agoI would bet the number of people on HN who buy a phone based on the processor is vanishingly small. Myself included. Maybe remove a couple of 9's and your second statement would hold too.
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- Skunkleton 7y agoSo that’s one in ten trillion, or did I miscount the 9s?
- wfh_man 7y agoI honestly would think HN would be the opposite. The only reason I got rid of my Nexus 5 was that the battery was dying, there isn't really anything compelling enough for me to even consider a new flagship phone.
- baybal2 7y ago> The number of people outside of HN who buy a phone based on the processor is vanishingly small. I would say that the number of people on HN who buy a phone based on the processor is vanishingly small. And this is not a trend that went unnoticed. A very expensive Digitimes market research papers tell that we had a very long and very pronounced trend of people who previously bought flaghship products downgrading to mid and low end products. It's very visible in the Laptop market too. People now how are buying into a niche of laptops with weak CPU, but good large screens. Those were making killer sales for last 3-4 years.
- arkitaip 7y agoHeck, many can't tell the difference between RAM and storage despite having owned a mobile for years/decades.
- Kirby64 7y agoSure, and I'm not saying people do... I'm just saying that if one company decides to include a Snapdragon 865, then you heavily pressure other companies into including it. It's only when everyone collectively agrees to not include the latest that you see that happen.