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rickdeckardtoday at 12:09 PM0 repliesview on HN

The headline "Oppo stops sale under OnePlus brand in US and Europe" would be more appropriate.

OnePlus products were mostly slightly redesigned Oppo products for the past years, built on the same hardware and running the same OS.

Early-on it was an impressive corporate experiment to observe: The giant company Oppo gave one of its members Carl Pei the chance to create an agile sub-brand with an own OS and access to Oppo's supply chain.

Carl Pei succeeded and OnePlus became a disruptive force in many markets for several years.

But Carl Pei already left (to start the UK-based tech company 'Nothing'), the OnePlus OS was discontinued and product development was largely folded into Oppo many years ago already...