Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker?
Outwit1294@lemmy.today 2 days ago
You are not well informed.
Apple has pushed chip tech so much with in house chip designs.
Samsung made folding phones.
Sony supplies cameras for a lot of other brands.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
To be fair, Samsung’s new Fold 7 does seem to be very thin (and surprisingly keeps the same battery capacity with the Fold 6), and Apple Silicon has always been very good.
But things like larger camera sensors, ridiculously large SiC batteries, superfast charging speeds (Samsung does have 45W, which is probably enough for most people, but Apple unfortunately does not have fast charging…), and high-value budget to midrange phones (e.g. Nothing’s latest ones are awesome with clean software, and of course all the Chinese ones like Redmi, Oppo, Poco, etc. that usually have bloaty software) the big brands don’t really have anything that competes with the other smaller brands.
One comment already pointed out that Samsung would rather use their own sensor and are probably developing their own 1" sensor (as well has better sensors for the ultrawide and telephotos). A whole bunch say that the big brands usually play the long game and see how the latest tech develops before implementing it in their own smartphones. Another says that Apple and Samsung produce way more phones than the smaller brands so they have to wait for the tech to scale. So Apple and Samsung certainly have legitimate reasons to wait.
A bit off-topic, but I think it’s kind of crazy that Huawei and Xiaomi were able to develop their own cars. Pretty wild.