Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017

Am I the only one surprised there were even that many in the first place?

Were they real or just shit novelty, scams, or rebadges and sister brands of those multi brand companies like BBK?

HTC was truly a pioneer.

That’s capitalism, baby! Thanks for playing!

Smartphones have reached a maturity level where upgrades aren't really exciting. Sure there are the usual hardware power upgrades (and even those don't really open up new applications), but in terms of features they're not coming out with anything really novel. Last thing I could think of is bringing back folding which I do find appealing, but not for the cost or the reliability issues.

I want a phone with a built in projector.. and a bigger battery.. and something else I haven't thought of yet.

I miss new features and innovation.

Since we have neither, give me modularization to let me have ^

LG failed because for some stupid reason, they decided to sell 9 million different phones between countries.

We are heading towards a future of Apple, Samsung, and Google, with even the latter two struggling to stay afloat.

And to be fair, Google deserves a lot of the blame for this happening.

apple & china robbed us of so much, if you're a gadget guy.

i had sony phones, laptops, palm pilots, panasonic bit and bobs.

i get that technology has advanced infinitely in the last 20 years, but we are on a very narrow path at the moment.

what was their added value despite cutting down price with their poor hw and integration, shitty drivers?

I mean, FairPhone, Librem, PinePhone have real value and strategy, sure not perfect but this Vitamin (real chinese/french mark), LIPOq or VARK chinese knock-off phones, really, what did they expect?

those craps were like throwaway cameras in the 90's.

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They all did the same, without innovation there won't be another big smartphone brand.

Wow. I can hardly name 50 brands, let alone 500.

I thought there were only 2 brands

I liked some of them. I still wonder how many were Amazon's random relabeled crap like AIUEO.

That's about 450 more than the market ever needed.

Its good weak companies are getting thined out. Its sad but necessary