OnePlus Co-Founder Carl Pei Has Left the Company, Report Says (androidpolice.com) 12
OnePlus, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer that has turned into one of the most popular Android smartphone brands worldwide, is reportedly missing one of its cofounders. According to Android Police, citing Reddit user JonSigur, who published alleged screenshots of internal memos at OnePlus, co-founder Carl Pei has left his role at the company after nearly seven years. From the report: The messages listed the company's leadership structure, with Pei notably absent. The memos also noted Emily Dai, who was in charge (or could still be in charge) of OnePlus operations in India, was recently appointed as the head of the Nord product line globally. Pei was previously in charge of Nord, and was prominently featured in the documentary about the phone's development. We reached out to OnePlus for a statement, and a spokesperson declined to comment. That adds more credibility to the story -- if it were false, it would be extremely easy for OnePlus to outright deny it. The report notes that OnePlus' other co-founder, Pete Lau, remains the company's CEO.
What did he do? (Score:3)
Talk about democracy in Hong Kong? Say Winnie the Pooh is cute? Brag about how OnePlus supports freedom of speech?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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How do know (s)he's American? OK, it's a fairly dumb OP, but yours is even more silly. Yes, increasingly Western democracy is failing through incompetent, arrogant 'leaders', corruption, rampant self-interest and naked partisanship, but are you seriously comparing that to the situation in China? Really? Have you been there or are you just a paid shill?
Because they have all of those problems, and more...be in no doubt, if Tiananmen Square happened again tomorrow, the results would be exactly the same.
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"one of the most popular Android smartphone brands worldwide"
Never heard of it
Judging on the so few comments I'm not the only one.
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OnePlus is quite popular.. but because its not aligned with carrier.. its often overlooked because their benefit is an unlocked and open platform.. (something the carriers don't exactly want).
They own (in the US) close to 1% of the marketshare..
And while that doesn't sound like a lot, it puts them at about 8th place and that's with virtually no marketing/advertising/carrier alliances..
Apple owns almost 50% of the market, with Samsung about 25% and LG owning 12%, which means the other 13% is with everyone el
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OnePlus is kind of like geek brand that a lot of nerds like to use. The biggest thing that was going for the first two or three generations of OnePlus phones was that they offered flagship phone specs and refinement for 50-60 percent of the price of mainstream brands. I remember owing the original OnePlus One, and it was an amazing value costing only 350 dollars for 64GB model but having specs more like an LG G3. Another thing going for OnePlus phones is the unlockable bootloaders, active developer communi
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...However they kinda lost my attention when they removed the headphone jack and ramped up the price into 500+ territory.
Yes, after the OnePlus 6 they dropped the headphone jack just like all the higher end flagship brands that they emulate already had. However, they still produce the best easy-to-alter phones out there at a lower price than the flagships even though the difference in price is only 20-30% vs the previous 50% it once was.
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