This conclusion comes from a three-continent investigation—current and former employees across R&D, Business, and Marketing at headquarters in China and regional offices in the US, India, and Europe. It’s confirmed by four independent analyst firms whose market data verifies what OnePlus won’t say. And it’s informed by 15 years covering OnePlus and the smartphone industry’s business dynamics—watching Samsung and Apple rise while Nokia, BlackBerry, HTC, and LG followed this exact pattern into irrelevance.The evidence is damning. Shipments in freefall. A premium stronghold that collapsed almost overnight. Headquarters shuttered without announcement. Partnerships ended. Western teams gutted to skeleton crews. Product cancellations—the Open 2 foldable and 15s compact flagship have both been scrapped; neither will launch as planned. And every major decision now flows from China—regional offices don’t strategize anymore, they take orders.
tal
in reply to QuentinCallaghan • • •We just had an article on how Asus is pulling out of the smartphone market too:
lemmy.today/post/45923370
Not as significant as OnePlus, I guess, but two articles about two different manufacturers exiting in two days is a lot.
Sina
in reply to tal • • •0ops
in reply to QuentinCallaghan • • •Oof. I mean, OnePlus had already fallen off quite a bit since being required by Oppo. I'm typing this from an 8t but I made up my mind months ago that this would be my last OnePlus device due to their merging of oxygen os and color os and their massively degraded modding community.
Man, the android phone industry/community used to be so vibrant and fun. I'll keep this one until it dies but I don't know what I'll do next. All the time it seems like Pixel and Samsung are my only choices. Are Motorola ok? I ditched them years ago ironically for essentially the same reasons I'm ditching OnePlus now but again it's been years.
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promitheas
in reply to 0ops • • •0ops
in reply to promitheas • • •Appoxo
in reply to 0ops • • •or have functional backups
0ops
in reply to Appoxo • • •tal
in reply to 0ops • • •Depends on what you value in a phone. Like, I like a vanilla OS, a lot of memory, large battery, and a SIM slot. I don't care much about the camera quality and don't care at all about size and weight (in fact, if someone made a tablet-sized phone, I'd probably switch to that). That's almost certainly not the mix that some other people want.
There's some phone comparison website I was using a while back that has a big database of phones and lets you compare and search based on specification.
goes looking
This one:
phonearena.com/phones
azerial
in reply to tal • • •🐝bownage [they/he]
in reply to 0ops • • •exu
in reply to 0ops • • •Maybe that's a hot take, but OnePlus fell off after the 3t. Every later phone was just a high-midrange phone with a high-midrange price.
The 3(t) had a great custom rom, kernel, etc community.
Clocks [They/Them]
in reply to 0ops • • •I also have an 8T, replaced its battery recently and plan to keep it alive for another 4 years via Lineage OS.
Afterwards, I'll get a fairphone, whatever is out by then.
swelter_spark
in reply to QuentinCallaghan • • •Kichae
in reply to swelter_spark • • •I have a lower-mid-end OnePlus. It is decidedly meh. It's fine. It cost more than I wanted, has poor finger print reader placement, lacks induction charging, and never got the promised unlocked boot loaders, but it has the 3.5 mm headphone jack and microSD slot that I demanded from a phone.
It sure is a phone.
Pyr
in reply to swelter_spark • • •Ive always loved my OnePlus phones.
Started with a OP5, which lasted me 4 years until I upgraded to OP9, which lasted another 4 years and now I have an OP13.
Compared to my Google and Samsung phones which both lasted less then 2 years each.
My Google Nexus 5 was a beast which also lasted 4 years but then my first pixel shit the bed and never got another Google phone.
My $1000 Samsung phone's battery shit the bed within a year and the charging port wore down where it wouldn't even charge unless it was in a very specific pressure and resting at a very specific angle.
Never had a single issue with any of my three OP phones.
sin_free_for_00_days
in reply to Pyr • • •along_the_road
in reply to QuentinCallaghan • • •Allero
in reply to along_the_road • • •huquad
in reply to along_the_road • • •leriotdelac
in reply to QuentinCallaghan • • •Used a OnePlus 10 years ago and it was absolutely top. When they were procured by the corporation, the quality of OS dropped, and I switched to Pixel (which is fine, but the old OnePlus was waaaay better).
I'll wait for one more year to decide if I want to continue with Pixel + Graphene or maybe try a Fairphone with Murena or possibly even a Linux phone. (Or a new device for Graphene that they are partnering with.)
DFX4509B
in reply to QuentinCallaghan • • •Here's the archived version.
Rewritten version snapshot