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Re:Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone by jiveturkey on Thursday May 24, 2018 @05:51PM (#17148785)
ANYTHING? Would you pay 20x the price of a bloated smartphone? In the developed world, that's what it'd cost due to the small market for such a device. Unfortunately, the price point for such a device further reduces the market ... essentially to zero.

not a rhetorical question. Does ANYTHING include 20x cost factor?

I wonder what they do in the developing world. Previous gen bloat-phones or simple flip phones, or something market-specific, closer to what you're asking for.

Re:Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone by filleduchaos on Thursday May 24, 2018 @08:05PM (#17149589)
Why do you think people don't own smartphones in the developing world?