Some pot and kettle action, there. And I'm not excluding myself in that sentiment.
This forum seems saltier than usual, but so has every site I usually visit. People are stupid.
If a phone is not every single thing you've ever wanted in a phone, welcome to smartphones. Expressing disappointment and criticism is
I think it's a good thing if consumers are salty. Hopefully they will keep complaining and vote with their dollars as well.
The sooner we get to the days where people are more reluctant to spend $700+ on a phone that is far from perfect, the sooner we get better phones that we are all happy with.
I can't stand a business that tells me what I want and expects me to pay for it which seems to be rife in the tech/phone world, across the board, by all the major players.
"Hey this easily breakable, hard-to-fix phone with a lack of [pick several: hardware, software, stability, etc] that costs $700 is premium because we say it is!"
I can't think of any other product I currently own or am interested in that costs so much yet is so disposable (please allow me for now to also completely ignore the environmental/waste ramifications of such tech design) and plain "just crappy". It is actually way easier to buy a used car, at a good price, and be happy, than to buy a phone...that is crazy.
I think every industry that had a brief or lengthy monopoly on what features a product offered behaved like this and it has always resulted in salty consumers until that behavior came to an end. Cars, land-line phone service, cable companies, clothing, furniture, audio equipment, televisions, etc. Thankfully it is much easier these days for most of those industries to get what you want, without compromise, without spending all of your money.
If companies got what they wanted, products and service would be absolutely horrible and expensive. Everything you own in your house would be licensed with a subscription or pay-per-use plan: dishwasher-as-a-service, microwave-oven-as-a-service, and you would have auto-deductions from your maytag/samsung/lg-pay account (with service fees for the transaction of course).
Keep salting I say.