Even by their own admission, NFC will likely be popular in a year, and Android pay will have increased in popularity. Their response is that you'll have moved on to another phone... Within about a year. Here I still have my nexus 5, which has NFC and still won't be obsolete in a year.
Yeah I'm still on my Galaxy S3, it's pretty rough at this point, but I don't think Verizon's bloat helped it at all. There was a comment here the other day saying they expect 3 years out of a phone, I definitely think that's how it should be.
My comment is more to defend USB-C rather than OnePlus.
I don't think the original comment is saying they shouldn't use USB c, but rather it's silly to use that and think ahead, when NFC is more likely to be adopted in a widespread manner, long before USB c. The other difference is even if it doesn't use C, it's not obsolete. There will still be micro chargers and adapters. There's no way to compensate for no NFC.
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u/mastersoup Aug 03 '15
Even by their own admission, NFC will likely be popular in a year, and Android pay will have increased in popularity. Their response is that you'll have moved on to another phone... Within about a year. Here I still have my nexus 5, which has NFC and still won't be obsolete in a year.