I lived in OnePlus' budget ecosystem to see how it stacks up against Google and Samsung
I lived in OnePlus' budget ecosystem to see how it stacks up against Google and Samsung
From Android Police.
It's been a long time since OnePlus could claim to be a budget brand. That ship sailed a long time ago.
I don't care about ecosystems, they are just a fancy word for vendor lock in
I'm not sure there's much of an ecosystem. It's just three products and I don't think the guy even looked at the budget tablet.
Usually you end up with products from the same manufacturer because there is a package deal or promotion sale. Which is the case now for their earbuds.
Yeah, no. I want too choose my gadgets. I want to pair a garmin watch with sennheiser headphones, running my music from a sony phone or a fairphone. That's what standards are for.
Most consumers aren't just buying one of the best Android phones. They're buying into a mobile ecosystem that includes smartphones and devices like great smartwatches, earbuds, tablets, and laptops.
No? Who does this?
Yeah, no idea where that came from. Except for Apple I don't know anyone who wants "Everything X".
I bought a Pixel watch when my Garmin finally died and got a Pixel phone a few months before that to finally get out of Apple's ecosystem. I did buy a tablet before that ran Android to make sure I didn't hate it (and nearly gave up on it because my Amazon Fire Tablet was so shit, but I ended up replacing it with a better tablet), but I couldn't care less about a pixel tablet or earbuds (well, headphones in my case; I despise earbuds), etc.
I wouldn't call that a "budget" ecosystem at all. The phone alone is priced at $500 and has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 lol
Better then samsung still
Yeah, though most things are. When I think of budget, I think of brands like Redmi or realme - both of which have a similar "ecosystem" of phone + earbuds + watch that could have been reported on instead of OnePlus.
Many companies reserve certain features for use only within their compatible product range (looks at Samsung for their gatekeeping of Galaxy Watch features to Samsung phones only; heck even TWS manufacturers sometimes bake a feature or two exclusively for use with their phone series only). I wonder if Oneplus offerings are completely platform agnostic or not.
I bought a OnePlus Watch as a gift for someone because it has feature parity across all smartphones. Looked at the Galaxy Watch first and noped the fuck out because of the Samsung exclusive features. Idk why manufacturers do that because they are losing potential customers.
Samsung used to be even worse I think. In the initial days of the smartwatch industry, I think Atleast one of their watches was for Samsung phones only, not even Android compatible fully.
Unfortunately, OnePlus began to lock their Phones with OnePlus 7 and latest Android versions. It was very hard to install LineageOS under these circumstances.
Stay away from them is my recommendation now.
Can personally confirm that the OnePlus Watch 2 is fully vendor agnostic.
I had brought the first OnePlus that was based on invite system. It was fairly priced then. After 5t it went down hill. Carl pei the founder jumped ship and using customers naive to boost his subpar "nothing" phone on inflated price. You'll get better hardware for same price. You can remove the bloatware after that's nothing much.