It is still an issue. While these Drivers, engine and interfaces are much better then the 1990's where a PC isn't a crashing mess anymore.
Some hardware makers will fall back to the windows default driver, while really not fully supporting them. Even with good drivers, different devices have different features. So while they may work on the driver, the special features are often not utilized because the game may not be coded to use it, so it will fall back.
However what people really fail to understand is balanced architecture. We are running $2k PC's to run games are nearly the same quality as a $400 console. These drivers and and interfaces to make everything talk the same language use a lot of processing power.
The Console has one major advantage over the PC. Uniform Balanced Hardware. Game makers know how fast the system is, how much RAM, what type of RAM. The Video Chips used.... A game made for the platform tends to run much better then on a PC with much higher specs in most areas. Because there is code that is needed to account for dealing with different drivers for a set of hardware. When a PC is built, they will often get the Expensive Video Card, but cheap on on RAM, or get a slow drive. Hardware makers don't make it easy for most people to make informed decisions. Core i3, i5, i7, i9 6th, 7th, 8th gen? Sure 8th Gen i9 is probably the fastest, but it is wicked expensive. But am I better off with the 8th gen i5 or a 7th Gen i7? Then you build something with a random bottle neck that will slow down the game further.
A “Lactating room” is a private room where a mother of a small child can use a breast pump to collect milk for her baby. Doing this in a bathroom is unsanitary and other areas are not private enough mostly due to our culture taboo on seeing breast. Now before we get all the Right Wing hate, about how this is so expensive and cuts in productivity. Just remember how much time is wasted for smoking breaks, creating unused conference rooms, or the Empty office packed with tacky Christmas decorations. For the most part this is just labeling an unused room for a purpose.
Granted hey are high functioning psychopaths who in general pull their own weight in society. However the lack of empathy may not be good for the job at hand. Sure the content doesn’t bother them, but because it doesn’t bother them they probably don’t see the need to moderate it.
One commonality I have found with Trump, and Chinese culture, is the need to "Win". I found the need to Win, to be inevitably counter productive. To Win at something you have a clear single objective, you work to get that objective better or faster then someone else, then you win. However what you do to get to that objective may sabotage other objectives you may want to peruse later on. That kid who cheated to win the game. Is no longer invited to pay again. A country who has wasted all their resources to become a more powerful economy, will struggle in the future, because there are no more resources to work off of.
While in college, they were Chinese national students, they were the test curve breakers, always getting A's on all the test, however in the practical assignments they really struggled, as they studied to pass the test, but not understand the material. In Work, when we have a Chinese national new hire, there always seems to be some work involved to get them to work with the rest of the team, ask questions, don't be afraid to make mistakes, but learn from them.
The Chinese people are smart, creative and innovative. They need to recognize the flaws in their culture, to help them grow. As do Americans, as we have different traits that make us shoot ourselves in the foot. Often our Bully attitude, and often seat of the pants approaches to problems, which causes us to come up with stupid ideas, and keep going with them.
Remember the adage of the broken clock. "Even a broken clock is right two times a day". I am by no means a Trump Supporter, I find this man to be to be the embodiment of evil, as his views and actions tend goes against everything that I have learned to be right and moral. However to stop myself from being angry and bitter all the time, I will have to ask myself what is my view on this particular issue, and how would I solve it, with the information I currently have at hand about it... And sometimes Trumps approach would match mine, So, I have to give him a point on that particular area.
Now that said, I agree We need strong Competion in the wireless speed race, so the standard isn't controlled by the Big boys in the Room such as American Telephone and Telegraph, there is a complication with Competition and Deploying Standards, which they are often trade-offs in each design. Method 1 may have greater range but slower speed, while method 2 has a Faster Speed but less of a range, They are methods that are in the middle. Some may have smaller range and slower speed, but is more easier managed, and components for receivers are cheaper. Some methods way work better in Rural areas with less volume, while others may work better in a crowded area. With True Competition, we are not going to have 5G, but a dozen of 5G's all incompatible with each other. Often when standards are applied, they are rarely the best option out there, but the most balanced good enough out there.
Not quite the same for the Raspberry Pi. The coding is for integrated devices, and not so much with custom server stuff. Linux is basically spot on with his assessment. Many server technologies, were originally coded for a desktop PC under somones desk. Because the RISC base Unix servers were really expensive, and for most server tasks, they were overkill systems, and the desktop did its job. Over time as the software expanded, it needed a more powerful computer. So they ended up making x86 based servers. The Raspberry PI, isn't being used for business services as much, while it is a cheap $20 device. Chances are there is an Old PC in the corner, that you can clear out and put Linux on and it will do its jobs just as well for basically free.
Linux got into the market right at the sweet spot time, Allowing it to take full advantage of the newly forming PC-Server market, while RISC and Mainframe systems were on the decline. Microsoft too got into this market with NT. Linux had the advantage in that it would work better on older hardware and free to install, while NT had that Windows compatibility that would secure up some older legacy Win 3.1 - 98 apps. So they both got onto the market at the same time.
So you rewrite your code with a new sets of corner cases snippets, dirty patches that stick out from it.
The problem is old code while ugly, has been made to work over the decades, you are not going to learn from the past mistakes, because in the rewrite, you will undo years of patching which explains the changes in thought.
Sometime you need to disconnect your software from your ego. A lot of full rewrites are primarily due to the fact the developer wants to be the Hero, toss out the old broken code, and make a new superior on in their own image. (Which then over times becomes old and broken) Also trying to keep bad code on life support, because you had invested so much into it over your time there, is just as bad, as the application barely meets the business needs anymore, and every fix is getting increasingly more complex.
Sometimes what the code really needs, is just some reorganization. (Move your function and methods in more logical locations in your code so you visualize the problems more easier. Beautify your code, make white spaces consistent. ) Create a script to see where each function is called and where, Delete unused functions. Identify duplicate logic and merge them, or make a parametrized function of of them. It is actually amazing how a little cleanup work can turn a mess into a manageable application for decades.
Also if designing software really try to split Logic and Interface/System call into separate portions. The routine that checks the required field, should be straight logic. Not generating HTML or Form boxes, giving the errors. Despite what your bosses say, assume the platform it is running on will be retired in 5 years, and try to plan to port the application over.
Finally, really try to use basic core components as much as possible, avoid 3rd party tools as much as you can (this includes semi official repositories such as with pip or cargo). Don't be a Hero and make a ground breaking new interface, just use normal component.
No, these are the few cases, where Misinformation was used, to try to make the dangers of such items seem like a non-problem. Which puts credence into other conspiracy theories.
I find it funny when we look at the moon, need to justify science. We need to include, the final goal of us living there. I don't see any benefit on living on the moon, unless they find a way to make it self sustaining. Otherwise, for over population, we just need to send people to live in Antarctica, The Middle of Australia, and to all the other spots that we call rather inhospitable environments, because those areas how bad they are to survive, is still much more easier to live in then on the moon. Basic rules of survival is the rule of 3. 3 minutes without air you die 3 days without water you die 3 weeks without food you die
The moon doesn't have any of these. Plus, there are factors on earth, that we need shelter for such as extreme heat and extreme cold (Which the moon has in abundance). Then things like radiation that we seem to be protected on the earth.
The Moon is probably one of the worst places to live.
Take any scientific project title, then add (On the Moon) to the end of it.
However monitoring solar radiation, astronomy with large telescopes, effects on some processes with reduced gravity, and science actually learning about the moon.
Right now the current man missions, and probe missions is like someone saying they know all about New York City, because they drove threw it on i87, flew over it and stopped at JFK airport. Then went to the top of the Empire States Building, and saw the Statue of Liberty.
YouTube/Google Monetizing algorithm is messed up. However, the public outcry when offensive information and there is a post making money, that is breaking copyright laws... Is also bad for the company.
The biggest problem with social media is the fact that all the content is user created, and it is nearly impossible to police and follow the rules set up for the broadcast industry. For the broadcast industry, there is only 24 hours of content to monitor. This could mean for a full day to live TV there needs to be 3 or 4 people ready to hit the bleep button, with a few seconds lag. Social media company can get thousands of hours new content a day. Making it nearly impossible for everything the be monitored, and categorized. So they use algorithms. Unfortunately the cost of broadcasting offensive information is high, so the algorithms and policy are set to a high standard, as to try to make sure the people who do this for money, are spending time to make sure they are self policing themselves.
However... What I have seen as a trend on You Tube for the bigger channels, to tends to get demonetized, they find sponsors (Skill Share, Dollar Shave Club are the biggest ones I have seen ) to pay for the video, and part of their video they put in their own advertisements. Much like the old Soap Opera of the past.
Having handrails will help mitigate people from dying from falling down the stares. It doesn't stop it, or even prevent it. It is just a tool to help regain balance after you have lost your step.
Software can Mitigate the problem, by catching the most common and easiest calls to cause the issue.
The problem is when people get onto Conspiracy logic thinking. When ever we discredit experts as being part of some conspiracy because what they say doesn't fit into our world view, then we fall in the hole of stupid, which is very hard to get out. Don't think for a minute that your political standing, your level of education, or religion (or lack of) that you follow will make you immune. We all can fall into Conspiracy logic thinking on a particular topic. From Flat Earth, Global Warming Denial, anti GMO, Anti-Vaxxer, the Liberal Agenda, the Billionaire Conservative agenda....
What makes it worse, is when they are influential groups posing as experts to feed misinformation. Such as the harm from Lead, or Smoking, groups that exaggerate the dangers of drugs... Then to muddy the waters even more, some of these groups who pushed the misinformation are also trying to push correct information. Confusing people even more on who to trust and not.
With people who feel that something is a conspiracy, having a group like Pinterest or Facebook block their information, that only feeds into the conspiracy. Because those dark groups who are out to get you and silence your view of the truth, is appearing to be happening.
The solution (which I do not know how to implement well) is for some way to have trusted sources of factual information. So for example we know if a view is opinion (Hypothesis), researched and proven strong trend (Theory), or proven fact (Law).
I think the average age for Slashdot is now over 40 years old. Many have been jaded from once being the cool trendy tech kids of the 1990's during the.COM Boom. To having most their jobs outsourced to India in the early 2000's, and the remaining jobs went from having a seat at the C table, to working in the companies "Cost Center" where you need to beg for funding for a project. They see people with funny accents, and look different then us, doing the work that we got laid off from doing. The 1990's culture for kids were Bro, EXTREME!, Shock, Sarcastic, and in General just being mean, this culture allowed for a new form or racism to flourish, as part of a shock and your not allowed to say that. But over time, with it combined with real hate, has poisoned our soles.
Samsung has a world wide market, while Apple is more focused towards American sales. While most Americans make over 20k a year, other countries may only be making 5k a year. So for an American who is making 50+k a year. $1,000 for a phone may be an expensive purchase, but it will not cut into necessary needs for survival, one can save up $1,000 in a rather short amount of time, even someone at the US poverty line. If you are making $5k a year and you wan't need a Cell phone $1,000 is a luxury phone that you just can't justify. That would be akin to a $10,000 phone for an American, and only bought by those who wear real Rolexs (Not the genuine Rolex that you find in a NYC, guy who has them in his pocket).
Samsung, working in the world market, has to make a set of devices to meet the world populations needs, from Cheap and ugly to Expensive and refined.
Unlike Apple (While one of the wealthiest companies in the world), Samsung is a bigger company making all sets of products. I have a Samsung Microwave, and Dishwasher, I'll probably be upgrading my Stove and Refrigerator to a Samsung, just so the Kitchen looks uniform. (I do have LG Washer and Dryers, but they are in a different room, but Samsung makes those too), Samsung TVs.... Really Samsung is the new Sony.
Really there isn't that much of a difference. I use the iPhone for the fact that all my Apps and Apps that I need for Work are on it. People in my workplace who have Android phone, will make excuses that they don't want work apps on their phone, or they have some odd 3rd party tool that will do the trick, mostly.
Part of the problem with Tablets is that they are too big to carry with you, the problem with a Phone, is the screen size is limited. Now if this technology works really well, this could change the market. For the last 11 years everyone was making rectangular glass phones to mimic the iPhone design as much as they can get away with (sometimes crossing the line, the round cornered line). Now if this technology proves itself, now a lot of Phone Companies (including Apple) will need to play catch up. When Apple released the iPhone, it really put other phone makers back to the drawing board, and took them a couple of years to catch up.
When we look back at history we see changes in decades or centuries. The stupid ideas get forgotten, while the good ideas have been deeply understood.
We look at the 20th century we See the human race go from horses, to Autombiles, Aircraft, and Spaceships that can get to the moon. Transportation seemed to be the big thing the 20th century, Now for the 21st right now it seems like communication and computing is the big deal. We are only 1/5 threw the 21st century. We started out with Cell phones that had Digital Voice Service, to ones that can run applications, and had basic internet connectivity, We then got the smart phone, with a more processing power then most of the computers we had in the year 2000. People now have their phone on them nearly all the time, one of the least used feature on the phone, is actually talking to an other person, but communicating over texting, and messaging. When we run into information we don't know what is about we look it up. Now there are problems with the technology much like problems with transportation technologies last century. We are having problems with Misinformation, differentiating opinion (like from me, as I had done NO RESEARCH ON THIS), from fact with real research. Being that we can communicate with anyone, we have fallen into finding like minded people, which as made us closed minded, because now there are the others who disagree with us. These are problems that need to be addressed, however who knows, that little extra screen real estate can be part of the problem, or part of the solution.
Being that it is more of a square layout, gives you more pixels to work with then with the rectangle phone layout. Part of the reason why Monitors jumped to be 16:9 vs the old 4:3 is for LCD display in particular, it is cheaper to make larger screens. Because they are less pixels per diagonal inch.
Well heavy is relative. We have been getting use to lighter and thinner phones, mostly because that is the only thing interesting most phone makers can do their phone. I was kinda surprised when I upgraded my iPhone 6 to the X. The X was actually thicker and heaver then the 6. In many ways I think we as consumers like a device with some weight to it. We instinctively feel better with a heavier product. We feel it is better built, and has more in it... While often it is just because such a device may be filled with rocks to make it heavier, or just materials that are more fragile but heavier (such as the X's glass back) I try to be aware of my consumer biases. But I expect it being bigger and heavier may not be a big problem.
Sure we give a 2k phone from Samsung a pass, but when a year and a half ago Apple releases a 1k phone. We are are all like, Look at Apple Ripping us off again!
Actually I am giving Samsung a pass on this... Not that I am going to buy it (For one my phone is still new, and secondly it is $2k that I could put to something else, like dental surgery), but it is a novel idea, and not a copy from some other model. Now the real question is if Samsung has made a progress, or just a quick fad. We will need to see how well it works, how robust it is, and application availability and support.
Often the initiative design is ahead of its time, and people are just not ready for it, and some technological gaps, that make it not quite ready.
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It is still an issue. While these Drivers, engine and interfaces are much better then the 1990's where a PC isn't a crashing mess anymore.
Some hardware makers will fall back to the windows default driver, while really not fully supporting them. Even with good drivers, different devices have different features. So while they may work on the driver, the special features are often not utilized because the game may not be coded to use it, so it will fall back.
However what people really fail to understand is balanced architecture. We are running $2k PC's to run games are nearly the same quality as a $400 console. These drivers and and interfaces to make everything talk the same language use a lot of processing power.
The Console has one major advantage over the PC. Uniform Balanced Hardware.
Game makers know how fast the system is, how much RAM, what type of RAM. The Video Chips used.... A game made for the platform tends to run much better then on a PC with much higher specs in most areas. Because there is code that is needed to account for dealing with different drivers for a set of hardware. When a PC is built, they will often get the Expensive Video Card, but cheap on on RAM, or get a slow drive. Hardware makers don't make it easy for most people to make informed decisions. Core i3, i5, i7, i9 6th, 7th, 8th gen? Sure 8th Gen i9 is probably the fastest, but it is wicked expensive. But am I better off with the 8th gen i5 or a 7th Gen i7? Then you build something with a random bottle neck that will slow down the game further.
A “Lactating room” is a private room where a mother of a small child can use a breast pump to collect milk for her baby. Doing this in a bathroom is unsanitary and other areas are not private enough mostly due to our culture taboo on seeing breast.
Now before we get all the Right Wing hate, about how this is so expensive and cuts in productivity. Just remember how much time is wasted for smoking breaks, creating unused conference rooms, or the Empty office packed with tacky Christmas decorations. For the most part this is just labeling an unused room for a purpose.
Granted hey are high functioning psychopaths who in general pull their own weight in society. However the lack of empathy may not be good for the job at hand. Sure the content doesn’t bother them, but because it doesn’t bother them they probably don’t see the need to moderate it.
I though a Dinosaurs was a Reptile limbs are Aligned at 90 degrees. All Dinosaurs are Vertebrates.
One commonality I have found with Trump, and Chinese culture, is the need to "Win". I found the need to Win, to be inevitably counter productive. To Win at something you have a clear single objective, you work to get that objective better or faster then someone else, then you win. However what you do to get to that objective may sabotage other objectives you may want to peruse later on.
That kid who cheated to win the game. Is no longer invited to pay again.
A country who has wasted all their resources to become a more powerful economy, will struggle in the future, because there are no more resources to work off of.
While in college, they were Chinese national students, they were the test curve breakers, always getting A's on all the test, however in the practical assignments they really struggled, as they studied to pass the test, but not understand the material.
In Work, when we have a Chinese national new hire, there always seems to be some work involved to get them to work with the rest of the team, ask questions, don't be afraid to make mistakes, but learn from them.
The Chinese people are smart, creative and innovative. They need to recognize the flaws in their culture, to help them grow. As do Americans, as we have different traits that make us shoot ourselves in the foot. Often our Bully attitude, and often seat of the pants approaches to problems, which causes us to come up with stupid ideas, and keep going with them.
Remember the adage of the broken clock. "Even a broken clock is right two times a day". I am by no means a Trump Supporter, I find this man to be to be the embodiment of evil, as his views and actions tend goes against everything that I have learned to be right and moral. However to stop myself from being angry and bitter all the time, I will have to ask myself what is my view on this particular issue, and how would I solve it, with the information I currently have at hand about it... And sometimes Trumps approach would match mine, So, I have to give him a point on that particular area.
Now that said, I agree We need strong Competion in the wireless speed race, so the standard isn't controlled by the Big boys in the Room such as American Telephone and Telegraph, there is a complication with Competition and Deploying Standards, which they are often trade-offs in each design. Method 1 may have greater range but slower speed, while method 2 has a Faster Speed but less of a range, They are methods that are in the middle. Some may have smaller range and slower speed, but is more easier managed, and components for receivers are cheaper. Some methods way work better in Rural areas with less volume, while others may work better in a crowded area. With True Competition, we are not going to have 5G, but a dozen of 5G's all incompatible with each other.
Often when standards are applied, they are rarely the best option out there, but the most balanced good enough out there.
Not quite the same for the Raspberry Pi. The coding is for integrated devices, and not so much with custom server stuff. Linux is basically spot on with his assessment. Many server technologies, were originally coded for a desktop PC under somones desk. Because the RISC base Unix servers were really expensive, and for most server tasks, they were overkill systems, and the desktop did its job. Over time as the software expanded, it needed a more powerful computer. So they ended up making x86 based servers.
The Raspberry PI, isn't being used for business services as much, while it is a cheap $20 device. Chances are there is an Old PC in the corner, that you can clear out and put Linux on and it will do its jobs just as well for basically free.
Linux got into the market right at the sweet spot time, Allowing it to take full advantage of the newly forming PC-Server market, while RISC and Mainframe systems were on the decline. Microsoft too got into this market with NT. Linux had the advantage in that it would work better on older hardware and free to install, while NT had that Windows compatibility that would secure up some older legacy Win 3.1 - 98 apps. So they both got onto the market at the same time.
So you rewrite your code with a new sets of corner cases snippets, dirty patches that stick out from it.
The problem is old code while ugly, has been made to work over the decades, you are not going to learn from the past mistakes, because in the rewrite, you will undo years of patching which explains the changes in thought.
Sometime you need to disconnect your software from your ego.
A lot of full rewrites are primarily due to the fact the developer wants to be the Hero, toss out the old broken code, and make a new superior on in their own image. (Which then over times becomes old and broken)
Also trying to keep bad code on life support, because you had invested so much into it over your time there, is just as bad, as the application barely meets the business needs anymore, and every fix is getting increasingly more complex.
Sometimes what the code really needs, is just some reorganization. (Move your function and methods in more logical locations in your code so you visualize the problems more easier. Beautify your code, make white spaces consistent. ) Create a script to see where each function is called and where, Delete unused functions. Identify duplicate logic and merge them, or make a parametrized function of of them. It is actually amazing how a little cleanup work can turn a mess into a manageable application for decades.
Also if designing software really try to split Logic and Interface/System call into separate portions. The routine that checks the required field, should be straight logic. Not generating HTML or Form boxes, giving the errors. Despite what your bosses say, assume the platform it is running on will be retired in 5 years, and try to plan to port the application over.
Finally, really try to use basic core components as much as possible, avoid 3rd party tools as much as you can (this includes semi official repositories such as with pip or cargo). Don't be a Hero and make a ground breaking new interface, just use normal component.
No, these are the few cases, where Misinformation was used, to try to make the dangers of such items seem like a non-problem. Which puts credence into other conspiracy theories.
Never stated it was the solution. Just mitigation.
I find it funny when we look at the moon, need to justify science. We need to include, the final goal of us living there. I don't see any benefit on living on the moon, unless they find a way to make it self sustaining. Otherwise, for over population, we just need to send people to live in Antarctica, The Middle of Australia, and to all the other spots that we call rather inhospitable environments, because those areas how bad they are to survive, is still much more easier to live in then on the moon.
Basic rules of survival is the rule of 3.
3 minutes without air you die
3 days without water you die
3 weeks without food you die
The moon doesn't have any of these. Plus, there are factors on earth, that we need shelter for such as extreme heat and extreme cold (Which the moon has in abundance). Then things like radiation that we seem to be protected on the earth.
The Moon is probably one of the worst places to live.
Take any scientific project title, then add (On the Moon) to the end of it.
However monitoring solar radiation, astronomy with large telescopes, effects on some processes with reduced gravity, and science actually learning about the moon.
Right now the current man missions, and probe missions is like someone saying they know all about New York City, because they drove threw it on i87, flew over it and stopped at JFK airport. Then went to the top of the Empire States Building, and saw the Statue of Liberty.
YouTube/Google Monetizing algorithm is messed up. However, the public outcry when offensive information and there is a post making money, that is breaking copyright laws... Is also bad for the company.
The biggest problem with social media is the fact that all the content is user created, and it is nearly impossible to police and follow the rules set up for the broadcast industry. For the broadcast industry, there is only 24 hours of content to monitor. This could mean for a full day to live TV there needs to be 3 or 4 people ready to hit the bleep button, with a few seconds lag. Social media company can get thousands of hours new content a day. Making it nearly impossible for everything the be monitored, and categorized. So they use algorithms. Unfortunately the cost of broadcasting offensive information is high, so the algorithms and policy are set to a high standard, as to try to make sure the people who do this for money, are spending time to make sure they are self policing themselves.
However... What I have seen as a trend on You Tube for the bigger channels, to tends to get demonetized, they find sponsors (Skill Share, Dollar Shave Club are the biggest ones I have seen ) to pay for the video, and part of their video they put in their own advertisements. Much like the old Soap Opera of the past.
Having handrails will help mitigate people from dying from falling down the stares. It doesn't stop it, or even prevent it. It is just a tool to help regain balance after you have lost your step.
Software can Mitigate the problem, by catching the most common and easiest calls to cause the issue.
The problem is when people get onto Conspiracy logic thinking. When ever we discredit experts as being part of some conspiracy because what they say doesn't fit into our world view, then we fall in the hole of stupid, which is very hard to get out.
Don't think for a minute that your political standing, your level of education, or religion (or lack of) that you follow will make you immune. We all can fall into Conspiracy logic thinking on a particular topic. From Flat Earth, Global Warming Denial, anti GMO, Anti-Vaxxer, the Liberal Agenda, the Billionaire Conservative agenda....
What makes it worse, is when they are influential groups posing as experts to feed misinformation. Such as the harm from Lead, or Smoking, groups that exaggerate the dangers of drugs... Then to muddy the waters even more, some of these groups who pushed the misinformation are also trying to push correct information. Confusing people even more on who to trust and not.
With people who feel that something is a conspiracy, having a group like Pinterest or Facebook block their information, that only feeds into the conspiracy.
Because those dark groups who are out to get you and silence your view of the truth, is appearing to be happening.
The solution (which I do not know how to implement well) is for some way to have trusted sources of factual information. So for example we know if a view is opinion (Hypothesis), researched and proven strong trend (Theory), or proven fact (Law).
I think the average age for Slashdot is now over 40 years old. Many have been jaded from once being the cool trendy tech kids of the 1990's during the .COM Boom. To having most their jobs outsourced to India in the early 2000's, and the remaining jobs went from having a seat at the C table, to working in the companies "Cost Center" where you need to beg for funding for a project. They see people with funny accents, and look different then us, doing the work that we got laid off from doing.
The 1990's culture for kids were Bro, EXTREME!, Shock, Sarcastic, and in General just being mean, this culture allowed for a new form or racism to flourish, as part of a shock and your not allowed to say that. But over time, with it combined with real hate, has poisoned our soles.
Samsung has a world wide market, while Apple is more focused towards American sales. While most Americans make over 20k a year, other countries may only be making 5k a year. So for an American who is making 50+k a year. $1,000 for a phone may be an expensive purchase, but it will not cut into necessary needs for survival, one can save up $1,000 in a rather short amount of time, even someone at the US poverty line. If you are making $5k a year and you wan't need a Cell phone $1,000 is a luxury phone that you just can't justify. That would be akin to a $10,000 phone for an American, and only bought by those who wear real Rolexs (Not the genuine Rolex that you find in a NYC, guy who has them in his pocket).
Samsung, working in the world market, has to make a set of devices to meet the world populations needs, from Cheap and ugly to Expensive and refined.
Unlike Apple (While one of the wealthiest companies in the world), Samsung is a bigger company making all sets of products. I have a Samsung Microwave, and Dishwasher, I'll probably be upgrading my Stove and Refrigerator to a Samsung, just so the Kitchen looks uniform. (I do have LG Washer and Dryers, but they are in a different room, but Samsung makes those too), Samsung TVs.... Really Samsung is the new Sony.
Really there isn't that much of a difference. I use the iPhone for the fact that all my Apps and Apps that I need for Work are on it. People in my workplace who have Android phone, will make excuses that they don't want work apps on their phone, or they have some odd 3rd party tool that will do the trick, mostly.
Part of the problem with Tablets is that they are too big to carry with you, the problem with a Phone, is the screen size is limited. Now if this technology works really well, this could change the market. For the last 11 years everyone was making rectangular glass phones to mimic the iPhone design as much as they can get away with (sometimes crossing the line, the round cornered line). Now if this technology proves itself, now a lot of Phone Companies (including Apple) will need to play catch up. When Apple released the iPhone, it really put other phone makers back to the drawing board, and took them a couple of years to catch up.
When we look back at history we see changes in decades or centuries. The stupid ideas get forgotten, while the good ideas have been deeply understood.
We look at the 20th century we See the human race go from horses, to Autombiles, Aircraft, and Spaceships that can get to the moon. Transportation seemed to be the big thing the 20th century, Now for the 21st right now it seems like communication and computing is the big deal. We are only 1/5 threw the 21st century.
We started out with Cell phones that had Digital Voice Service, to ones that can run applications, and had basic internet connectivity, We then got the smart phone, with a more processing power then most of the computers we had in the year 2000. People now have their phone on them nearly all the time, one of the least used feature on the phone, is actually talking to an other person, but communicating over texting, and messaging. When we run into information we don't know what is about we look it up.
Now there are problems with the technology much like problems with transportation technologies last century. We are having problems with Misinformation, differentiating opinion (like from me, as I had done NO RESEARCH ON THIS), from fact with real research. Being that we can communicate with anyone, we have fallen into finding like minded people, which as made us closed minded, because now there are the others who disagree with us. These are problems that need to be addressed, however who knows, that little extra screen real estate can be part of the problem, or part of the solution.
Being that it is more of a square layout, gives you more pixels to work with then with the rectangle phone layout. Part of the reason why Monitors jumped to be 16:9 vs the old 4:3 is for LCD display in particular, it is cheaper to make larger screens. Because they are less pixels per diagonal inch.
Well heavy is relative. We have been getting use to lighter and thinner phones, mostly because that is the only thing interesting most phone makers can do their phone. I was kinda surprised when I upgraded my iPhone 6 to the X. The X was actually thicker and heaver then the 6. In many ways I think we as consumers like a device with some weight to it. We instinctively feel better with a heavier product. We feel it is better built, and has more in it... While often it is just because such a device may be filled with rocks to make it heavier, or just materials that are more fragile but heavier (such as the X's glass back)
I try to be aware of my consumer biases. But I expect it being bigger and heavier may not be a big problem.
Sure we give a 2k phone from Samsung a pass, but when a year and a half ago Apple releases a 1k phone. We are are all like, Look at Apple Ripping us off again!
Actually I am giving Samsung a pass on this... Not that I am going to buy it (For one my phone is still new, and secondly it is $2k that I could put to something else, like dental surgery), but it is a novel idea, and not a copy from some other model.
Now the real question is if Samsung has made a progress, or just a quick fad.
We will need to see how well it works, how robust it is, and application availability and support.
Often the initiative design is ahead of its time, and people are just not ready for it, and some technological gaps, that make it not quite ready.
Kudos to Samsung if it is a big hit.