Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade::North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.

  • krakenx@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you break your new phone, you can’t fall back to your old one and you will have to pay over MSRP for a replacement if you buy it from your carrier. That’s the real reason they want you to trade the old phone. That and to kill the resale market.

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      1 year ago

      I ended up getting the S23 Ultra, (had to come out of pocket a bit), and if you get Samsung’s Care+ insurance it’s $8 a month, so basically $100 a year if something goes catastrophically wrong. I will probably carry that insurance for the first two years or so of owning the phone. Given I rely upon my phone for a ton of business, my home phone, social communication etc, it seems fairly reasonable as they claim to have 24 hour replacement.