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  • A company trying to service and remedy issues on an existing phone, what is this nonsense. 🙂

  • Not a One+ owner and I get some of the sillyness this company has done. But if DL could tone down the biased venom being spewed at them it would be great.

    I could choose any phone and go to any forum and pick out people complaining about some update or whatnot. That’s not “reporting” It’s click bait and it really makes the site seem less and less credible.

    • How does reporting direct quotes of customer comments qualify as spewing venom? OnePlus has earned more than its share of criticism. There’s nothing about the tone of this particular article that reduces DL’s credibility in my eyes. OP’s credibility – or perhaps reading comprehension – is a different question.

      • There have been multiple articles in the last 3 days basically mocking the company for everything they do. Even for things that other companies do pretty regularly. Like I said, I’m not a 1+ owner and I agree their company does some wonky things.

        I just think that DL might want to take a step back. Just my opinion.
        No need to be rude or insult my “credibility” or reading comprehension. Neither of which really seem to apply to me having an opinion on an article. Simmer down James.

        • Your opinion bears no connection to the actual text of the article, either in tone or in argument, which is why either your credibility or reading bear questioning. You might want to reread your original post before telling someone else to “simmer down.”

        • Hi Chris, I read through your comments and a few of the others and just wanted to share my take on why we may come off as hard on some companies, notably HTC and OnePlus. It’s not that we dislike these companies personally by any means, but we are bloggers. We’re not exactly CNN or anything, so we enjoy injecting our own opinion/humor into stories. While some may think it’s silly for me to post OP owners’ comments in an article, to me, it’s part of the story as a whole. Those people bought a phone and are voicing their opinions, and sometimes, we share those views.

          We find humor in many things that others may not, but that’s because we write and talk about Android 7 days a week. We live it. Sometimes, we need an outlet, and thankfully we have a blog to do so. So from me to you, and anyone else who doesn’t exactly care for the way we do things, I’m sorry. I won’t say we’ll change our methods, cause we won’t, but I can appreciate your point of view on the subject.

          I saw your back and forth with other readers and just wanted to share my thoughts.

          Thanks for reading and sharing! 🙂

          • Tim –

            Not that I don’t care for the way you do things at all. I read the site for exactly the opposite reason. I DO like how you do things.

            Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the op/ed and informal writing here. Just as I sort of enjoy the formal/journalistic format over at AC. Different formats for different things.

            Sometimes companies (all companies) do stupid things. In the case of One+…lots of stupid things. And we being tech enthusiasts call them on it big time. My statement was more reflecting a concern that if we get to a point that a company can do no right in our eyes then we might be missing something. Maybe even some nice technology (not saying One+ is there yet).
            An example is this weeks article on their marketing style of leaking features. We drool over these kind of leaks from every other company yet when One+ does it DL mocked them without mercy. If they can’t even leak features of new devices without being mocked then heck…just stop reporting on them and let them die.

            I didn’t mean for my comment to make such a hoopla. More of a “from the hip” comment. Not a “Screw this site I’m never coming back” comment 🙂

          • Totally, and your respect + maturity is what made me want to comment back. I appreciate it. Yeah, I can see what you are saying about missing out on something. It makes sense to me. In reality, you may even be right. I’ll see what I can do about it!

            Thanks again!

          • The leaks from other companies are not sanctioned by the company. OnePlus is completely opposite.

      • The comments are negative in tone. They’re haters for every device. Why repost them?

        They’re a handful of comments in the OP forums claiming the COS 12 and OOS patch work. How about pimping the positive.

    • Not trying to pick a fight or defend anyone, but where did you pick up on anyone spewing venom from DL? The only opinion I see written in this article is when Tim said,”Ah the internet. Wonderful place we have here.” Which could be read as him shaking his head at the venom of those comments. Otherwise just the facts of how to update the OS are presented. Just curious.

      • I’m more making reference to the overall tone on DL towards 1+ in the last few days.

        We get it; They don’t like them…hell…neither do I.

        Like I said below – just my opinion. I read this site a lot and it’s just something I’ve noticed

        • I am all for the opinion posting! I was more curious as to what it was that prompted it. And you posted that right below to which I am cool with. Being a mod, sometimes you get to read some “off the wall” stuff and yours was not off the wall. So I was curious. 🙂

      • Just chiming in here to bring it to somebody’s attention that I feel the same way as Chris Hughes. Also, not trying to start a fight here. Not usually one to take to comments/reddit to vent. However, Droid-Life used to be my go-to for all things Android – even if Android Police or someone else posted an “exclusive” Android rumor, I’d wait for it to show up here to see what you guys thought of it.

        What I’m saying here is this – these articles have turned me off from this site. Yes, it’s only a few articles and I can get past it – but it makes me question the journalistic integrity of the guys here. It was subconscious at first, but I just found myself with this thought process after I saw this headline on my Facebook feed: “Time to see how the guys who write for Droid-Life spin this against Oneplus.”

        I don’t like that, especially for a site that I used to love. Since Chris didn’t, here are some example from the past week or so:

        “According to OnePlus, the Snapdragon 810 is “much more powerful than its younger counterpart, the 801.” (Get out of town!) It’s also more expensive. (You don’t say!) And thus, because of the better performance and spike in cost, the price of the OnePlus 2 will “certainly be higher than $322.” Where did that random $322 price come from? Some random hole on the internet, as far as we can tell. But OnePlus has seen that number in headlines, so they used it in their blog post.”

        “Obnoxious Feature-By-Feature Rollout begins now…” “The (t)rollout of features has already begun…”

        Now from this article, the completely unnecessary section about the people commenting on the forums. That’s not news. That’s not journalism. That’s just joining in with the hivemind… and it comes off to me as immature, to be honest.

        People will, of course, have different opinions on this. But as a longtime Droid-Life reader (since my first smartphone, a DROID 3), I find myself looking elsewhere for my news purely because of this attitude.

        • Well written. My sentiment exactly. I too used to wait for Droid Life’s take on breaking tech news. Now it’s OP news forums, AP, maybe XDA OP accessories forum, then DL. Betweeh the DL posts on the 2 inch Moto X, the HTC hatred and the S6 circle jerking, I’ll knock up Android Central before preparing myself for DL’s “contributions”.

  • I hope they know that since the Lollipop update that CM has similar touchscreen issues.

  • So their everyday customers are supposed to flash zips? . . . This company is so confused.

        • That’s because it’s a beta. When OnePlus is satisfied that it completely resolves the issue without creating new ones it will become an OTA.

    • People who are tech enthusiast, but not software enthusiast, would have difficulty doing this, especially for the first time. Should be an OTA update, not passing the buck to the customers.

      I have never flashed, unlocked or rooted. But I own several nexus devices. after 2 months of waiting for the 5.1 “E” build for verizon version for my Nexus 6 Google Play device i had to read three different sites on flashing & unlocking. Not because it is ultra hard, but because I wanted to make sure all the information matched and was congruent to each other so no mistakes were made following someone off the internet that you not know. After I studied, downloaded the correct files, the update came OTA the next day. LOL

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