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Other than flip/niche phones, phones appear to have plateaued.

IF you offer someone a phone with similar specs to others, yet much, much more private - many would go for that.


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j_maffeyesterday at 6:16 PM

If that were true then the Windows phones would've survived. You need the app ecosystem.

oblioyesterday at 1:20 PM

How many is many? Fairly sure hardware development is very hard and expensive. Are we talking about 1 million people worldwide (peanuts, will probably not recover the investment) or 50 million worldwide (might be worth it)?

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