This conclusion comes from a three-continent investigation—current and former employees across R&D, Business, and Marketing at headquarters in China and regional offices in the US, India, and Europe. It’s confirmed by four independent analyst firms whose market data verifies what OnePlus won’t say. And it’s informed by 15 years covering OnePlus and the smartphone industry’s business dynamics—watching Samsung and Apple rise while Nokia, BlackBerry, HTC, and LG followed this exact pattern into irrelevance.
The evidence is damning. Shipments in freefall. A premium stronghold that collapsed almost overnight. Headquarters shuttered without announcement. Partnerships ended. Western teams gutted to skeleton crews. Product cancellations—the Open 2 foldable and 15s compact flagship have both been scrapped; neither will launch as planned. And every major decision now flows from China—regional offices don’t strategize anymore, they take orders.
Used a OnePlus 10 years ago and it was absolutely top. When they were procured by the corporation, the quality of OS dropped, and I switched to Pixel (which is fine, but the old OnePlus was waaaay better).
I’ll wait for one more year to decide if I want to continue with Pixel + Graphene or maybe try a Fairphone with Murena or possibly even a Linux phone. (Or a new device for Graphene that they are partnering with.)
We just had an article on how Asus is pulling out of the smartphone market too:
https://lemmy.today/post/45923370
Not as significant as OnePlus, I guess, but two articles about two different manufacturers exiting in two days is a lot.
One Plus always has been an oppo sub brand and they have stopped being relevant a long time ago.
Oof. I mean, OnePlus had already fallen off quite a bit since being required by Oppo. I’m typing this from an 8t but I made up my mind months ago that this would be my last OnePlus device due to their merging of oxygen os and color os and their massively degraded modding community.
Man, the android phone industry/community used to be so vibrant and fun. I’ll keep this one until it dies but I don’t know what I’ll do next. All the time it seems like Pixel and Samsung are my only choices. Are Motorola ok? I ditched them years ago ironically for essentially the same reasons I’m ditching OnePlus now but again it’s been years.
I also have an 8T, replaced its battery recently and plan to keep it alive for another 4 years via Lineage OS.
Afterwards, I’ll get a fairphone, whatever is out by then.
Maybe that’s a hot take, but OnePlus fell off after the 3t. Every later phone was just a high-midrange phone with a high-midrange price.
The 3(t) had a great custom rom, kernel, etc community.
Give fairphone a look. Maybe youll like them and what they do
Thanks, I’ll remember them when my phone finally kicks the can
You should that before :)
or have functional backupsThe second one!
Are Motorola ok?
Depends on what you value in a phone. Like, I like a vanilla OS, a lot of memory, large battery, and a SIM slot. I don’t care much about the camera quality and don’t care at all about size and weight (in fact, if someone made a tablet-sized phone, I’d probably switch to that). That’s almost certainly not the mix that some other people want.
There’s some phone comparison website I was using a while back that has a big database of phones and lets you compare and search based on specification.
goes looking
This one:
Motorola. I used to work at a place that had Motorola branded bat boxes. They are not the same. My roommates partner had a phone that was the MINIMUM amount of specs. We’re talking 32/32. I verified it because i couldn’t believe it. And the thing was riddled with ads. I put him on a custom launcher and my private dns, 33.84% of his phones queries have been blocked. What in the hell.
I went from oneplus 6 to nothing phone 1, which is alright. Sadly some friends bought the nothing phone 2 after I recommended the brand and they both don’t like it. After this I’ll probably move to fairphone if I can afford it at that time
Flagship killer that is somehow the same price as a flagship
Ready to be killed, I guess
I used to want to try a OnePlus. Their phones looked nice. So sad.
Ive always loved my OnePlus phones.
Started with a OP5, which lasted me 4 years until I upgraded to OP9, which lasted another 4 years and now I have an OP13.
Compared to my Google and Samsung phones which both lasted less then 2 years each.
My Google Nexus 5 was a beast which also lasted 4 years but then my first pixel shit the bed and never got another Google phone.
My $1000 Samsung phone’s battery shit the bed within a year and the charging port wore down where it wouldn’t even charge unless it was in a very specific pressure and resting at a very specific angle.
Never had a single issue with any of my three OP phones.
I’ve had a 7t for I don’t know how many years. I always hate phone shopping. I hope that there is something like fairphone available when this thing dies. I just want to have a replaceable battery. I’d probably still have a phone from a decade ago if I could replace the battery.
I have a lower-mid-end OnePlus. It is decidedly meh. It’s fine. It cost more than I wanted, has poor finger print reader placement, lacks induction charging, and never got the promised unlocked boot loaders, but it has the 3.5 mm headphone jack and microSD slot that I demanded from a phone.
It sure is a phone.
