Unpopular Opinion
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How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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I was legitimately sad when LG left the market. It feels like nowadays, the only company left making "high-end phones at mid-range prices" is Motorola, while every other company is following the Apple/Samsung trend of charging literally whatever they can get away with.
We used to live in a world where a company would make a product "X", calculate how much it costs to manufacture, factor in a 30 percent profit margin to cover reinvestment into the company, and call that the "price".
Now, largely thanks to Apple, the "price" is whatever the marketing department can convince people to pay with advertising heavily on FOMO and "coolness", regardless of the manufacturing cost. It's a shitty way to do business (in my opinion). LG was one of the last of the good ones sticking to the old ways. Now it's just Moto.
LG was among the last brands that actually dared to experiment with new stuff. It wasn't always a hit, but they brought a ton of cool ideas to the table.
I still have the successor to the V10 - the V20 - lying around somewhere, though I've "upgraded" to a Samsung XCover 6 Pro since then. The LG got slow as hell and had been rebuilt multiple times anyway.