Phones have plateaued for a long time but only now we're seeing this massive dip so peoples' lower purchasing power is to blame.
Also flagship level phones have gotten much more expensive to bot to further put gas on the fire. In 2020 I got my OnePlus 7T for around 440 Euros, not the absolute pinnacle for the time, but close, now an equivalent model is something like 600-700 Euros. Yeah, we had inflation since then but Gawd damn that's steep!
Apple never bought Qualcomm’s CPUs, and I don’t think they ever competed with NVidia. I think it’s just smartphone vendors are seeing a decline in sales; leading to a decline for Qualcomm.
It seems they are not progressing. They have the same features as before, perhaps dramatically improved, nothing worth upgrading. Compared to the early days things are quite unimaginative. With the size of these companies it cant be easy to reinvent themselves.
The only thing which has "dramatically improved" is the reshufling of GUI elements and the passive agressive warnings covering half of the screen which you cannot dismiss.
Rampant inflation, mass layoffs, record homelessness, ever increasing credit card debt among the middle class. Most Americans are unprepared for a $400 emergency expense. This is fine, the economy is doing great. Ignore what you’re seeing and believe what the party tells you.
i have a camera that requires app, my wifi account , cloud connectivity etc .. possibility is that
1.they may watch us live
2.sell the data to thief , or a hacker would hack it and sell it to thief
3.spam our mails
4.push ads , suuckk our data , may run crypto/ads mining
