ByteMyAscii
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Haha, thanks for that man. You proved my point REALLY well!
Definitions of flagship DO differ, but I can tell you right now that J1 you mention fits NONE of them.
Mine (the correct one) is that it is a companies main top tier device that it wants to push to consumers... The only ones from this year in the list are maybe one of the Xiaomei and one of the Huawei... I don't know their lines well enough to pick out their flagships.
The G5 is... But that's from last year. Where's the G6 on the list? Where's the S8, the Moto Z2, the U11, the Xperia XZ? Is there one on the iPhone? You can't say it's not niche because it's included on a host of niche devices!
Given the amount of Huawei and Xiaomei phones, you could claim it's not niche within China... But that seems tenuous.
Again, thanks. You did a far better job of proving my point than I could have!
As for your last paragraph... What? Really, what are you talking about?
I didn't prove your point in any way.
There are several there flagships for their respective brands, and because they are chinese is irrelevant.
You said that no flagships made room, something that list proves wrong.
If we use something, and it gets removed we find a way as much as possible to work around it, because we have to.
Does Not mean the apparent lack of IR blaster appeal is simply a lack of appeal, but can mean that it simply isn't something a user expects any more.
When the 3.5mm headphone jack becomes rare on phones, will we consider that a niche or unwanted product, or will we simply adjust because we have to.
It will be the latter.
Only those convenient for your argument, a trend in certain markets does not make a product "niche".
It just means that they have a certain belief as to what users do or don't need.
Which if you look at headphone jacks makes that very clear, as that absolutely is something used and wanted by a lot still.
But they are still being removed anyway, in favour of what we are being told is simply "better" in all respects.
Which isn't even close to the truth.
Adapters are available, and even provided in some cases.
Can't use wired headphones and charge at the same time, without an adapter if that is even supported on the phone.
You can't make an argument dismissing inclusion by flagships, and then changing the rules to then exclude those from certain markets, which are overlapping ours a lot more now than ever before.
And my last paragraph was about you bringing up the harmony remotes, which like any other is still physical buttons.
A smart phone has a lot going for it in terms of flexibility, that a physical remote cannot offer.
Look at how many things are expected of a smartphone nowadays, what is is intended to replace.