The financial pressures stem from a fundamental shift in smartphone bill of materials. DRAM and NAND used to be minor costs but now dominate device expenses.

Even strong Galaxy sales may not offset surging RAM and storage costs that now rival displays and processors

  • Antagnostic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Pushing useless AI slop features and locking down android to remove visibility into privacy control even more isn’t making me an excited consumer to buy or recommend a Samsung phone either.

  • XLE@piefed.social
    English
    1·
    2 months ago

    I’m not worried about high storage costs because Samsungs let you add an SD card to the storage and… Oh they removed that feature from their flagships?