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So Moto? Are we just giving up on North America? (fedia.io)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So Moto? Are we just giving up on North America?
The two current "Edge" phones (your premium phones) are the same price.

Someone might look at this and say:
"I want to get the newer phone! What a good deal!"

But the older Edge+ is more powerful and has DOUBLE the storage of the newer Edge phone.
The 2023 model is definitely a better buy, but there's ZERO consumer education on phones other than Apple/Samsung/Google, and Moto isn't really marketing here.

This late in the year, I guess we're just not getting a new Edge+ phone from Moto? Why stay current and compete right?

Like Sony and LG before them, the strategy of "release a good phone, but dont tell anyone about it, until the company totally fades into obscurity" seems to be a LOSING strategy.

Makes my review work load a little easier year over year, but it sucks to lose good competition...

#android #tech #smartphone #motorola #geek

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I have fond memories of Moto phones (during the Google acquisition or maybe sometimes after)...
Clean software with some useful features (i.e the chop-chop for ๐Ÿ”ฆ and other camera tricks) Not to mention Moto X customisable back plates.

My mum loved her Moto G series back in the day.

I so wish we still had Moto, HTC, HMD Global (Nokia), LG competing for these price ranges along with Nothing, OnePlus and A series from Samsung and Pixel.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] I still have my old X2 from the moto maker with blue leather. It was AWESOME. I wish Moto still had some of that verve. They could legit compete in the USA, but they're basically invisible.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Lack of marketing is clearly a factor, however, everyone knows that Moto has a software support problem. It's not that they aren't offering 7 years of support, it's that it takes them FOREVER to release both security and OS updates. If they released updates with the same frequency as OnePlus, people wouldn't have much to complain about.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] that's a problem of education not of actual software delivery.
A moto isn't like a OnePlus or Galaxy, and techies should understand the difference. Moto opts to support many components through Google play updates like HTC used to.
A moto is regularly updated. Why wait for an ota if pieces can be patched over Play?
They certainly should extend support to at least 5 years, but there are ways in which a Moto is better up to date than even a Pixel.