I remember being young here on /g/ back in 2014 and being jealous of people buying banger flagship phones like the HTC One M8/Galaxy Note 4/Nexus 6 whereas I only had a cheap Lumia 630. Nowadays I got a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra 512GB which is top-tier and yet I feel nothing. I wonder why that is.
>>108748080android and android devices all got enshittified and locked down into appliance slop for normalcattle. if you had a flagship in the 2010s you were experiencing the peak of human ingenuity at the peak of human civilization. i myself had a taste of it, having a beefy phone with an amoled display running cyanogenmod on it to make it even more blazing fast is something i will never forget. mobile computing back then had a different set of values and it makes me cry. i had a taste of glory, it was by and for the community and locked bootloaders were a rarity
because there is barely a justifiable quality difference between entry and mid range to so called flagships.Cheap androids used to be genuinely garbage. Now with chink phones the average daily use experience is basically the same, it's usually the camera and gaming performance with big notable differences which normies care about a lot so they keep buying them as well as for status goycattle reasons as usual.I was a broke kid so I always had to use cheap androids. Got my pixel 8 pro during college and the feeling of novelty and awe vanished so damn quickly I still punch myself in the face for this dumb purchase. Photos do look really good but it's mostly artificial and they can never get the quality and toolkit of real cameras. I don't even care enough about graphene and whatnot. In hindsight I should've bought one of these chengphone for 200€ and called it a day. Big waste of money
>>108748409Meh at least you got a futureproof phone. Just ride it out for the next 4-5 years and get a cheaper one next time.
>>108748080have fun unlocking your bootloade-oh wait, you cant after the oneui 8.0 update
>>108748080Lenovo Motorola and GrapheneOS will give you that same feel again. 2026/27. See you soon.
>>108748080Perhaps because the fancy phones do the same things as cheap phones. All phones are decent now, the difference between them is minimal, and makes no difference when using them.What makes a difference is having an unlocked bootloader instead of being stuck with bloated chinkware
>>108748080You grew older and new phones are pretty stagnant in design changes and feature upgradesGoing from the s3 to the note4 was pretty insane for me back then. And going to the s7 edge was an equally big jump
>>108748080>Nowadays I got a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra 512GB which is top-tier and yet I feel nothing. I wonder why that is.its called getting oldI just upgraded from S9 to used S25+ and its not radical but definitely a lot better, I had the HTC One M8 back when, still have it I think, fun fact HTC did the very first smartphone iianm
>>108748080>and yet I feel nothing. I wonder why that is.rich guys feel the same when they finally get that supercar they lusted after as kids, billlionaires feel the same when they finally get that superyacht they lusted after when they were just rich guys, its called dukkha
>>108748080Back in 2014 I was buying old flagships, they used to drop to almost nothing in just a couple years.Those days are long gone. Now for the same money I paid for my Optimus G back in 2014 I'd be lucky to get a S20.
>>108748080In 2014 there was a bigger gap between flagships and below tiers. Nowadays, less so, especially since Poco launched with a flagship SoC. Anything that wasn't a Galaxy S, Nexus 4/5, LG G, HTC One or similar, was absplute dogshit slow, with literal garbage bin components.
>>108749148Yeah I mean I DID get that feeling back in 2021 when upgrading from the Nokia 6.1 to the Galaxy S20 FE (Exynos 990 model, still a beast for all intents and purposes). So it isn't REALLY accurate to say that the S25 Ultra is my first flagship, more like my first proper top of the line phone.
