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Omar Abdelaziz Is Teaching the iPhone to Do the Tapping
He started by fixing used iPhones. After six years shaping Google’s voice products, Omar Abdelaziz has returned to the device in his pocket - this time with a small blue plug and a larger idea about who should do the busywork.
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Consumer · Hardware · Ai
Motorola Lost the Smartphone Race. Then It Learned to Sell the Fold.
The company that put a radio in the car and a phone in the hand spent years being bought, sold and outpaced. Its comeback offers a sharper lesson: heritage works only when it is attached to a product people can recognize across the room.
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Consumer · Hardware · Ecommerce
BLU Products Sold 70 Million Phones by Making the Carrier Optional - Then Learned the Hidden Cost of Cheap
The Miami phone maker found a market hiding between carrier contracts and four-figure flagships. Its playbook is wonderfully copyable - right up to the part where outsourced firmware turned bargain hardware into a very expensive lesson in trust.
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