OnePlus understands that its invite system is hindering its growth

It doesn’t matter how awesome and well-received your smartphone is, if people can’t actually buy one, then you’re not going to make any money, and therefore aren’t going to grow. Nobody understands this better than OnePlus should, but considering how both the OnePlus 2 and OnePlus X have adopted the same invite system that plagued the OnePlus One, maybe the company doesn’t really understand. According to co-founder Car Pei, the company knows that the horrible invite system is “self-inflicting a slower rate of growth,” but he claims that this is a conscious decision.