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Why would anyone outside china buy this phone?
by ugjka 2y ago
Why would anyone outside china buy this phone?
- leonth 2y agoBecause it may be cheap, available, and gasp aligning with China might not be so bad overall compared to alternatives.
- Dalewyn 2y agoYup. Go to Japan and there are entire sections of electronics stores dedicated to Huawei phones. What about the Japanese manufacturers, you might ask? Well apparently there's so much Sony Xperia smartphone stock that NTT DOCOMO is selling them for just 10 yen each with the purchase of a new contract. I'd say the only reason we don't see Huawei in English-West is because we were more preemptive in kicking them out of our markets.
- selimthegrim 2y agoI've liked Xperia and wanted to buy them in the US for years. My last Android phone was an Xperia ion. The lack of software and carrier support and the fact that they have you send stuff to the same S Texas based service center that does Playstations doesn't bode well.
- 1over137 2y agoFor the same reasons anyone buys anything: it does what they need/want for cheap enough and good enough.
- milankragujevic 2y agoThe phone is quite expensive actually.
- 1over137 2y agoYes, about 1050 €, but I said 'cheap enough' not 'cheap'. iPhone 15 Pro is about 1229 €. People buy those too.
- elefanten 2y agoYou missed the requirement that it be better than comparably priced options. Hard to find a reason to buy this over other flagship Androids other than wanting to be more integrated with a Chinese software ecosystem.
- justinator 2y agoThey enjoy the built-in surveillance of a totalitarian regime.
- greenavocado 2y agoStunningly, Carlson tells Rogan that congressmen were "terrified" that intelligence agencies will frame them with "kiddie porn" if they openly opposed the "warrantless spying" bill. Specifically, he says US lawmakers "told" him that they are "worried" about being punished by intel agencies if they oppose reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). "People don't say that because they're worried about being punished. They’re worried about someone putting kiddie porn on their computer. Members of Congress are terrified of the intel agencies. I'm not guessing at that. They've told me that — including people on the intel committee, including people who run the intel committee," Carlson said. https://twitter.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1781726793076019478 https://twitter.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1781726793076019478
- jimjimjim 2y agoI would trust a quote from Nixon before I would trust a quote from Carlson
- greenavocado 2y agoThe claims are entirely plausible and fit the operating model. I suppose everyone forgot how Paddock got CP'd even though it was totally unnecessary except it made people stop asking more questions about him because he could be "written off" just like that. He was a fall guy for a larger clandestine operation that went wrong. Even back then the Internet was so quickly scrubbed of his information is was shocking how well organized the erasure process was across many sites.
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