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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by axaxs on Sunday April 04, 2021 @11:58PM (#26695196)
Can't say I blame them. Phones are really close to being commodities. Samsung and Apple have the top end on lockdown. Xiaomi will obliterate you on the low and mid range. So your only real option is to dump huge amounts of cash into top photo and app folks and try to fight with the big two.
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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by blackoil on Monday April 05, 2021 @02:14AM (#26695839)
Samsung has a decent mid range A/M series and you can replace Xiaomi with 'Chinese companies' but comment otherwise stands true.
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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by rchaud on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:28PM (#26701083)
I read somewhere that the Galaxy A51 was the biggest selling mid-range phone globally. It's about 30% of the price of a flagship, but there aren't huge compromises on performance and camera quality like there is on the A20, A10 series.
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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by Scarbutt on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:03AM (#26695221)
I wouldn't discard Huawei, they are on par with Samsung.
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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by VWWHFSfQ on Monday April 05, 2021 @02:34AM (#26695939)
Huawei is basically dead as a consumer brand after USA and EU went after them [0]. They've re-branded most of their consumer stuff as Xiaomi.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-telecommunications-co...

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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by kiwijamo on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:47AM (#26696679)
Huawei has nothing to do with Xiaomi as far as I am aware. Yes same country of origin but that's all. Perhaps you can cite a reliable source to back up your claim?
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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by arboroia on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:30AM (#26696945)
In Europe, Huawei is still the third largest by market share, at ~15% [0]

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/europe

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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by manojlds on Monday April 05, 2021 @03:49AM (#26696343)
Wait, what? Are you trying to say Xiaomi is rebranded subset of Huawei?
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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by 411111111111111 on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:27AM (#26697248)
I'm not the parent author but they're both state sponsored enterprise.

I can't speak about wherever they're rebrands though, you'd have to take all their phones apart to figure that out.

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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by rchaud on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:30PM (#26701120)
Shouldn't the government own the majority of the shares for it to be a state sponsored enterprise? Or does it just have to offer tax breaks and subsidies?
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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by lostlogin on Monday April 05, 2021 @02:39PM (#26702828)
> Or does it just have to offer tax breaks and subsidies?

I wish the definition included this, there are so many shitty corporations which depend on subsidies and tax breaks but happily privatise every penny they can.

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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by noisem4ker on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:15AM (#26697580)
Did you mean their Honor brand instead of Xiaomi, which is an entirely different manufacturer?
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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by azurezyq on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:26AM (#26696550)
I don't think EU ever targeted Huawei's consumer business. It's only the US for this exact one.
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Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business by igravious on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:28PM (#26744612)
That's because the EU does not see China as a threat to its geopolitical and economic hegemony the way the US does.
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