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World's Largest Mobile Phone Factory Set To Open in India (bloomberg.com)
Samsung said on Monday that it is opening what it said is the world's biggest mobile phone manufacturing facility as the South Korean giant seeks to expand production in the world's fastest growing mobile phone market. From a report: The new Samsung factory will have the capacity of 120 million smartphones per year, and make everything from low-end smartphones that cost under $100 to its flagship S9 model, according to the company. Earlier this year, China's Xiaomi displaced Samsung from the No. 1 smartphone spot in the country, breaking its long-held dominance. Indians favor low-end smartphones priced at $250 or less, given the low average annual income of its people, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. That's one reason why Apple has struggled to gain market share in India, with most iPhone models priced beyond $500, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence report earlier this month.
It's a pretty logical move since as the summary says it's the fastest growing mobile market. It'll surely allow Samsung to sell the phones cheaper than if they brought them from abroad. Samsung it's still kind of pricy for what it offers compared to most other Android manufacturers and specially Xiaomi. Since India is such a price sensitive market I'm not sure Samsung will be able to turn the tide.
I live in Spain and we're richer than the indians but not rich by european standards and still many people buy Xiaomi phones (or BQ a local brand that makes pretty cheap phones too) so as I said, I'm not sure what this will do for Sams.
Bad move - how many people are going to want the world's largest mobile phone? If anything, the trend is the other way.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
To eliminate the crapware that comes on a mobile phone, and to install a hosts file based block of ads & facebook. It makes android a delightful experience.
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A lot of reasons:
1: Run an iptables firewall. Not a VPN hack, but a firewall that keeps dodgy apps from phoning home... like most crapware on phones that loves sending your location to places in China.
2: Run Titanium Backup. Android is crap when it comes to backups, so having the ability to restore data and archive games is important.
3: Use my phone for multiple OS images for front-line troubleshooting.
4: Use my phone for network troubleshooting.
5: SSH into my phone. There are times when I like using my phone for stashing documents, so might as well use it as a "NAS" just so all my docs are with me, and are physically secured. My Mac doesn't like MTP in any way, shape, or form, so if I need to move documents, it is either ADB or SSH, or using a SMB server on the phone, which is secure enough, especially with custom firewalling as in #1.
6: Use better encryption methods for documents. There is a solid implementation of VeraCrypt available, and being able to use that ensures documents are protected, even if the Android FDE is worthless.
7: Have a Linux instance, which is useful for GPG signing while on the road, and combined with #6, have better security than most things, next to Tails Linux.
8: Fix issues with the OS that the maker of the device can't/won't bother fixing, especially after six months and the phone is not supported.
9: Run a ps and kill crap that is hanging the phone.
10: Use my phone the way I desire, not the way some offshore company tells me to.
11: Run Titanium backup and have far finer grained control to disable/remove bloatware/spyware/badware apps. Do I really need a multiple versions of Facebook and Twitter that can't be turned off?