So are they blaming it on buyers not having any money or are they blaming it on themselves for not having product?

Step up please.

Right now, there are no rugged phones for sale that have the Magsafe system, or it's successor, QI2.

So, I'm just nursing my existing phone along until they're available. My USB port stopped working about two years ago.

What a big surprise. They downgraded the memory on all of the new models, so people are using their old phones for longer.

Nah, everyone is just waiting on the Graphene supported Motorola phones to come out.

I fear smartphones will soon be subscription only. It will essentially be a touch screen with a battery and a dumb chip that lets you stream everything via cloud, even your own menu. Updates will rarely happen to your device but from the cloud side too, meaning you don‘t get to skip a faulty update. Everything will be vibe coded too and as soon as you cancel your subscription your data is locked away in some data center. This is the bright AI future they keep telling us is inevitable.

If I were a dictator I would permit only 4-5 models of smartphones. Why produce huge amounts of shit if you can just make a few decent machines? That would save an enormous amount of resources and energy.