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[333.92 --> 336.10] There's a little bit of pause where you're like, uh… |
[336.10 --> 337.56] Yeah, because they don't get… |
[337.56 --> 344.06] Like, I wouldn't say that in North America, in the media, in the kiosks, in your telecom store… |
[344.06 --> 344.26] Yeah. |
[344.26 --> 353.16] I wouldn't say that Huawei gets more attention than, you know, someone like an LG, for example, whose market share is actually abysmal. |
[353.46 --> 353.66] Yeah. |
[353.96 --> 357.18] But over here gets treated like a top-tier brand. |
[359.28 --> 362.14] So, anyway, he goes on stage and he's talking about this whole thing. |
[362.22 --> 364.82] He's like, yeah, we have won over the trust of consumers. |
[365.14 --> 367.66] We have won over the trust of carriers worldwide. |
[368.42 --> 371.04] And we have, you know, we… |
[371.04 --> 373.34] And he sort of seemed to lose his composure. |
[373.34 --> 379.16] Like, I don't follow mobile news as much as I perhaps should. |
[379.24 --> 385.28] Other than our topics for WAN show and when I'm working on a review of a device or whatever the case may be. |
[385.34 --> 385.50] Yeah. |
[386.02 --> 387.02] So, I did not… |
[387.02 --> 388.92] In your defense, it's been a little boring for a while. |
[388.92 --> 401.92] I did not know about any controversy or any of the plans that Huawei had made with AT&T about bringing the device, not just into the U.S., but into AT&T stores. |
[401.92 --> 403.92] Because something to the tune of… |
[403.92 --> 407.64] This is according to the Android Authority article here. |
[407.64 --> 415.04] Something to the tune of 90% of smartphone sales in the U.S. are done on contract with a subsidy. |
[416.08 --> 416.32] Okay. |
[416.32 --> 422.82] And this isn't the case in a lot of other markets where people do tend to buy their devices outright like they would any other consumer. |
[422.88 --> 426.22] But I'm not surprised due to how contracts work in North America. |
[426.46 --> 426.60] Exactly. |
[426.60 --> 427.92] And they don't work that way everywhere. |
[428.06 --> 428.88] And they don't work that way. |
[428.88 --> 434.20] Like, in North America, buying a phone on contract is actually not stupid. |
[434.56 --> 434.86] Yeah. |
[435.96 --> 436.52] And… |
[436.52 --> 438.06] You know, with a lot of contracts. |
[438.12 --> 439.18] With some contracts it is. |
[439.18 --> 439.22] Some of them it's dumb. |
[439.22 --> 439.62] But, yeah. |
[439.86 --> 448.56] But, like, you know, back when I was first getting into, you know, cell phone ownership when I was in, like, high school, I absolutely just bought on contract. |
[448.58 --> 449.76] You get the $0 phone. |
[449.94 --> 450.88] You get the $0 phone. |
[450.88 --> 459.60] And back then, a lot of the carriers, at least the one I was on anyway, so some carriers, I'll say some, the one that I was on didn't give you a discount for bringing your own device. |
[459.92 --> 461.52] So you were actually an idiot. |
[461.84 --> 461.94] Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
[461.94 --> 464.18] If you didn't, just get hardware. |
[464.44 --> 465.76] Now, you had to sign a contract. |
[466.34 --> 467.88] That was the drawback. |
[467.88 --> 468.04] Yeah. |
[468.42 --> 471.00] But there were, what, two carriers at the time. |
[471.14 --> 474.26] There was Rogers and there was Telus here. |
[474.26 --> 474.68] Telus, yeah. |
[474.74 --> 479.00] I don't think Bell was available here yet back in, like, 2002 or whatever. |
[479.00 --> 480.84] You're talking, like, sliders and stuff, right? |
[481.16 --> 483.54] I don't want to talk about it. |
[483.62 --> 483.84] Flip? |
[484.96 --> 486.20] No, this is pre-flip. |
[486.22 --> 486.48] Bricks. |
[486.50 --> 487.32] I hate you. |
[487.34 --> 488.34] You're talking about bricks. |
[488.36 --> 489.22] I hate you. |
[489.26 --> 490.96] Okay, so I wasn't in the game at that point. |
[491.18 --> 491.78] I hate you. |
[491.78 --> 493.48] Wasn't allowed to have a phone at that age. |
[495.58 --> 500.70] Um, what was the, oh, what was that phone that I had? |
[501.22 --> 502.90] It was, I don't remember. |
[503.74 --> 504.22] V-Box. |
[504.34 --> 505.48] I got a phone pretty late. |
[505.74 --> 506.48] Okay, this was. |
[506.60 --> 507.58] Oh, nice. |
[507.58 --> 508.88] This was my first phone. |
[509.06 --> 509.50] Yes. |
[509.50 --> 511.56] Oh, that's amazing. |
[511.70 --> 514.98] So I got it because my mom's hard of hearing and, um. |
[515.86 --> 516.22] Okay. |
[516.38 --> 523.24] So this was, I believe, this was, like, the first, like, text-centric device out there. |
[523.44 --> 523.60] Yeah. |
[523.66 --> 526.30] Um, but this came around at a time that bricks were the norm. |
[526.30 --> 527.60] Right, so she reads lips. |
[527.78 --> 529.54] So if you want to call her, it's not really going to work that great. |
[529.54 --> 529.88] That's right. |
[529.96 --> 531.02] I never even thought about that. |
[531.02 --> 531.12] Yeah. |
[531.12 --> 531.60] That makes sense. |
[531.70 --> 531.82] Yeah. |
[531.92 --> 532.16] Okay. |
[532.16 --> 533.76] Because you've met her and you probably didn't notice. |
[534.02 --> 535.02] Because she's really good at it. |
[535.02 --> 535.18] Yeah. |
[535.46 --> 535.64] Yeah. |
[535.64 --> 536.56] Um, but anyway. |
[537.00 --> 538.82] So, so that was my first phone. |
[539.14 --> 540.80] And, um, right. |
[540.90 --> 544.44] So, so the only drawback was that you had to sign a contract, which didn't really matter |
[544.44 --> 546.88] that much because, quite frankly, where else were you going to go? |
[546.88 --> 549.24] Uh, if you wanted to have a cell phone at all. |
[549.26 --> 552.08] So as long as I knew I wanted a cell phone for two years, it was no big deal. |
[552.16 --> 557.48] And then during your two years, you would accumulate credit towards your hardware upgrade |
[557.48 --> 558.56] after a couple of years. |
[558.72 --> 561.08] The upgrade cycles weren't so fast. |
[561.70 --> 567.40] Like, to my knowledge, Apple kind of pioneered the new phone every year come hell or high |
[567.40 --> 569.10] water upgrade cycle. |
[569.10 --> 571.00] Because there wasn't that drastic of improvements. |
[571.34 --> 575.36] And I wasn't an enthusiast at all about phones. |
[575.36 --> 577.84] They, they, they placed calls. |
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