As long as Vivo is offering a meager 3 years of OS updates and occasional blotchy security updates, no repair network or spare part availability to speak of and near zero availability beyond Asia and Middlle-East, not to mention missing major critical LTE/5G bands on the radio/antenna...

VIVO IS NOT an alternative to either Apple, Samsung, or even Xiaomi or Google.

"Vivo X200 series aims to rival the new Apple iPhone 16 lineup"

Because someone claims themselves as a "premium rival brand to Apple", clearly the *premium* sale's numbers goes completely against that very unrealistic claim.

The extreme important thing that Jia needs to do is to compete with Apple on a FULL global scale (including only Europe and a few others is NOT global 😏) in all iPhone launch territories. That hasn't happened, and probably will never happen.

Nah, Jia is just like many other Asian brands and that is all of them are just extremely salty about the iPhone's roaring success compared to them all, especially in their own backyard (even though Apple could do much better as for as innovation) and until they get that, only Huawei had a chance to meet this criteria FULLY GLOBAL until Huawei just got to freaking greedy and just blew it, BBK, Xiaomi, ect. as the majority of users continuously show, these other OEMs will always be the last choice over Apple.

It is what it is, folks.