That’s been my take away from the blog posts for over a year by now. Man, time flies. To quote myself from a year ago:
The last two announcements reek of “CEO trying to show the board he’s making a difference” to me. And this announcement in particular smells like “could have been a tweet or a section in the FAQ”. Tone deaf is what I would call it. This is the type of announcement that is typically done at the same time as a bigger, more exciting announcement.
Meanwhile it’s been 7 months since they said nothing has been decided about the always on display. That could have been an announcement. Or an announcement on the FP4 Android 14 situation. If they wanted to frame it they could frame it as Qualcomm being the bad guy when it comes to Android development, and it probably is.
I just find the priorities of this company strange. They should strive to improve on their mistakes, IMO. It’s impossible to beat Big Tech when it comes to raw performance, but they can beat them when it comes to building a tight community, built on the idea that you don’t need a flagship as an average user. And you really don’t. All you really need is to deliver a solid experience and to keep your promises.
And what has happened since? Basically nothing when you break it down.
It’s pretty telling that one of the top suggestions on the forum involves flashing a custom ROM to fix issues. Wild times.