The phone wars are over and smartphones are finally just boring slabs
Sep28
This year’s smartphone launches were notable, because they suddenly seemed kind of… dull. The wars for the thinnest phone with the highest megapixel count waged on for years, since the introduction of the iPhone. But now, in 2015, we’ve reached a point where it’s hard to differentiate on hardware alone. All phones look more or less the same and offer similar hardware features. Indeed, smartphones are now nothing more than slabs — and that’s great. The same thing happened to the PC market over the last decade. In the early 2000’s, introducing a new laptop or desktop computer was something vendors could hold an event for,…
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