People stopped using floppy disks long before the Mac stopped providing them.
On the other hand even Apple themselves will still happily sell you multiple product lines of overpriced garbage headphones with no wireless functionality.
Hahahha fair enough. Was just a suggestion because I find myself forgetting adhoc things to the point that I carry a notebook around whenever I can't carry my phone (I work in a hazardous facility). The only things I do remember are those tied to a routine.
Who in their right mind would now buy an iPhone 8 when it is obsoleted in the very same product announcement by the iPhone X?
I'll go with people who don't want a ridiculous looking phone that appears to have something stuck on the screen at the top looking like an ill fitting cheap Chinese phone cover for the wrong model of phone.
I was excited to see what they'll come up with for their edge to edge display.... What a letdown.
The world has switched to Android largely because it's cheap.
Sorry to derail your thought, but those >$600 Samsung phones are the best selling Android devices on the market by a significant margin followed quite closely by flagship phones from other companies. Hell even special purpose devices like phablets outsell the cheap Android devices in any market with money (i.e. the west, and the richer east).
Normally I don't follow comments like this, but really yes it is. Having a black space impinging on the display is ugly. It almost looks like someone bought a phone cover for the wrong model. Part of me can't get over thinking that I'm probably missing something in that part of the screen.
Would it have killed them to make the screen a few mm shorter? I mean it's not like having 2 thin black lines at the top and bottom (see Galaxy S8) doesn't look really damn good.
Apparently the new way of going home is to swipe up from the bottom. I like how he says it works across the system as if it's some revolutionary new idea. You know what else worked across the system,... the home button. You know what isn't intuitive, and what I realise is definitely not a better replacement for a universal and tactile button,... a frigging gesture.
I'm sure there are plenty of people who are more diligent about charging their devices every night without fail, but I'm not one of them.
Have you tried? I mean not about getting a watch, but doing some daily diligence that is linked to a pretty much 100% repeatable event of you falling asleep.
If you think about it, things you do daily you're probably incredibly diligent about, e.g. brushing your teeth, getting dressed, going to sleep, etc. When you tie a requirement to an action you repeat daily you'll be surprised how diligent you actually are.
Screw smart watches, it's bad enough that I need to charge my phone every night, but really it's not even something I think about or try to remember to do, I just do it daily because I tie it to another event I do daily, going to bed. .
Personally the CXOs that sold stock are probably smart, they know they can take profits today and probably buy it back cheaper next month sometime and ride it all the way back up to previous levels!
Yep, obvious insider trading is really "smart". It's like MBA level of "smart".
Indeed. We're 8 generations deep. That's 160 years in human years. You're talking about technology here, saying a bit of perspective would be like constantly referencing world war I about the current escalations with North Korea.
Add 20 years to that number and that's the last time OLED burn-in has been relevant. It has been pretty much resolved 5 generations of Smartphones ago. If burn-in is all you're waiting for for OLED then you should have one by now.
OLED uses more power that's probably why they haven't been used in portables.
Errr no. Like for like when displaying white LCD uses only slightly less power. When not displaying white OLED wipes the floor with LCDs which is why they are so favoured in portable. Why they aren't ubiquitous? Samsung's and LG's licensing fees and patent portfolio.
I don't think Android has needed applications to address more than 4GB of RAM yet. I assume that's the benefit you're talking about on the iPhone right? The move to 64bit so the inefficient garbage apps coming out can just waste more memory on worthless features?
You know what else you get with 64bit? A performance penalty. Hurrah!
and given the lack of replaceable batteries in newer models
Not sure what you're talking about. My girlfriend just had her Galaxy S7 battery replaced. Didn't cost her much more than an off the shelf S5 battery and the guy in the store did the replacement while she was getting lunch.
Why? No one is asking you to get on the treadmill, but be happy it exists. I look forward to a big leap up from my current phone (3 generations behind) thanks to the treadmill.
Rotten Tomatoes doesn't do anything. They are an aggregation service. It's the reviewers whose opinion you don't agree with. Mind you I tend to find my enjoyment of a movie compared to its critical review is highly dependent on the genre and how mainstream the movie is.
A mainstream action movie that has a junk rating typically I find is junk. A fan service movie on the other hand can go any way. Bonus points for getting all political with complaints of casting choices, and for missing the entire point and focusing only on the quality of a story.
Perhaps the Rotten Tomatoes score is low, because the movie is bad, and that's why your box office sales are poor.
That would imply correlation but not causation. In this case there isn't even correlation, implying that people happily spend money to see bad movies, and don't spend money to see good ones.
As in Europe the country? Which part of Europe is that, that bit in the middle where it's customary to tip 10%, that bit a few hundred km in one direction where it's customary to tip just enough to not get spare change, or that bit a few hundred km in the other direction where people are paid a living wage and tips are not only unheard of, you get strange looks if you offer them usually followed by getting your change back.
Yeah why use PDF? Maybe it's because pay layout is a powerful tool for presenting text and graphics in a way to provide additional clarity and meaning to a message. The idea of going to text only email is horrid and I cringe every time I see one.
Hmm, so you're saying they still contain mercury? Isn't mercury bad for you? Even in "reduced" amounts? No thanks.
Sure is. Oxygen is bad for you in reduced amounts or increased amounts too. You know how to get more mercury in your body than inhaling the paltry 2.5mg that is in a CFL? Eating fish. Don't eat fish if you're afraid of mercury, unless you understand science, doses, and concentrations.
You know as I type this I am sitting in an enclosed room with 40 fluor tubes each with roughly 20x the concentration of mercury in them as that scary CFL in your house. We have been doing this since the 70s.... actually maybe it is bad, it would certainly explain the low level of critical reasoning people are capable of nowadays.
What if they get it wrong? I mean if electric vehicles are the future then just let it happen, no need to force it along with bans and subsidies.
If you remove all government intervention and let the free market decide anything you end up with anarchy. Remember the present situation is not a result of any free market.
What will happen if you don't force it along? The same thing that happens when a company which doesn't care about anything but profit produces the cheapest thing for people who don't care about the environment, and who then go crying when they can't see the end of the street through the smog.
We saw this with the CFL bulb subsidies.
Yes we did. People the world over reduced their energy consumption. The introduction of a product with obvious downside caused a big shift in R&D and as a result we now have excellent LED bulbs to thank for it. LEDs wouldn't have replaced the incandescent in the USA without any government intervention, but they had a lot of incentives to beat out CFLs.
and contain toxic mercury (broken bulbs happen, and in places like where our children sleep and where we prepare their food).
I'd be more worried about getting hit by a meteorite, no..... having my children get hit by a meteorite while they sleep. That is really scary. If on the other hand you do fear 2.5mg of mercury breaking... lets say once per year in the vicinity of your children, I suggest you never ever eat fish, and certainly not in the recommended weekly levels recommended for healthy people.
What if the claims of algae based diesel fuel becomes a reality? Are we still going to ban internal combustion engines? Maybe ethanol gets real cheap because we found a new way to make it. Maybe we get synthesized hydrocarbons from wind and wave powered factories.
Aside that you're failing to see the problem of burning things with carbon in the name, algae won't become a reality as there is little need or incentive to increase R&D.... Unlike say LEDs when the incandescent ban was announced and CFL still showed many ugly downsides.
Maybe this ban will actually spur some R&D for alternatives.
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People stopped using floppy disks long before the Mac stopped providing them.
On the other hand even Apple themselves will still happily sell you multiple product lines of overpriced garbage headphones with no wireless functionality.
Hahahha fair enough. Was just a suggestion because I find myself forgetting adhoc things to the point that I carry a notebook around whenever I can't carry my phone (I work in a hazardous facility). The only things I do remember are those tied to a routine.
Who in their right mind would now buy an iPhone 8 when it is obsoleted in the very same product announcement by the iPhone X?
I'll go with people who don't want a ridiculous looking phone that appears to have something stuck on the screen at the top looking like an ill fitting cheap Chinese phone cover for the wrong model of phone.
I was excited to see what they'll come up with for their edge to edge display. ... What a letdown.
Your 1960s jack socket is never coming back.
Actually it never left. Just one device stopped supporting it.
even Apple can't come up with anything
So ... 2014 then?
The world has switched to Android largely because it's cheap.
Sorry to derail your thought, but those >$600 Samsung phones are the best selling Android devices on the market by a significant margin followed quite closely by flagship phones from other companies. Hell even special purpose devices like phablets outsell the cheap Android devices in any market with money (i.e. the west, and the richer east).
Normally I don't follow comments like this, but really yes it is. Having a black space impinging on the display is ugly. It almost looks like someone bought a phone cover for the wrong model. Part of me can't get over thinking that I'm probably missing something in that part of the screen.
Would it have killed them to make the screen a few mm shorter? I mean it's not like having 2 thin black lines at the top and bottom (see Galaxy S8) doesn't look really damn good.
Apparently the new way of going home is to swipe up from the bottom. I like how he says it works across the system as if it's some revolutionary new idea. You know what else worked across the system,... the home button. You know what isn't intuitive, and what I realise is definitely not a better replacement for a universal and tactile button,... a frigging gesture.
I'm sure there are plenty of people who are more diligent about charging their devices every night without fail, but I'm not one of them.
Have you tried? I mean not about getting a watch, but doing some daily diligence that is linked to a pretty much 100% repeatable event of you falling asleep.
If you think about it, things you do daily you're probably incredibly diligent about, e.g. brushing your teeth, getting dressed, going to sleep, etc. When you tie a requirement to an action you repeat daily you'll be surprised how diligent you actually are.
Screw smart watches, it's bad enough that I need to charge my phone every night, but really it's not even something I think about or try to remember to do, I just do it daily because I tie it to another event I do daily, going to bed. .
Personally the CXOs that sold stock are probably smart, they know they can take profits today and probably buy it back cheaper next month sometime and ride it all the way back up to previous levels!
Yep, obvious insider trading is really "smart". It's like MBA level of "smart".
Qualcomm seems to be desperate for someone to notice them?
Desperate is right. Look at the last, a good half of it is wrong.
but let's get a bit of perspective here.
Indeed. We're 8 generations deep. That's 160 years in human years. You're talking about technology here, saying a bit of perspective would be like constantly referencing world war I about the current escalations with North Korea.
A LOT has happened in the past 10 years.
An issue last seen in the 1990s CRT monitors.
Add 20 years to that number and that's the last time OLED burn-in has been relevant. It has been pretty much resolved 5 generations of Smartphones ago. If burn-in is all you're waiting for for OLED then you should have one by now.
So as a non programmer who's device isn't managed by a company like 99.9% of the iPhone users, it still does?
Thanks for clarifying.
OLED uses more power that's probably why they haven't been used in portables.
Errr no. Like for like when displaying white LCD uses only slightly less power. When not displaying white OLED wipes the floor with LCDs which is why they are so favoured in portable. Why they aren't ubiquitous? Samsung's and LG's licensing fees and patent portfolio.
Boo-hoo-hoo. When did Android get 64 bit CPUs?
I don't think Android has needed applications to address more than 4GB of RAM yet. I assume that's the benefit you're talking about on the iPhone right? The move to 64bit so the inefficient garbage apps coming out can just waste more memory on worthless features?
You know what else you get with 64bit? A performance penalty. Hurrah!
and given the lack of replaceable batteries in newer models
Not sure what you're talking about. My girlfriend just had her Galaxy S7 battery replaced. Didn't cost her much more than an off the shelf S5 battery and the guy in the store did the replacement while she was getting lunch.
Why? No one is asking you to get on the treadmill, but be happy it exists. I look forward to a big leap up from my current phone (3 generations behind) thanks to the treadmill.
Rotten Tomatoes seems to get it wrong
Rotten Tomatoes doesn't do anything. They are an aggregation service. It's the reviewers whose opinion you don't agree with. Mind you I tend to find my enjoyment of a movie compared to its critical review is highly dependent on the genre and how mainstream the movie is.
A mainstream action movie that has a junk rating typically I find is junk. A fan service movie on the other hand can go any way. Bonus points for getting all political with complaints of casting choices, and for missing the entire point and focusing only on the quality of a story.
Perhaps the Rotten Tomatoes score is low, because the movie is bad, and that's why your box office sales are poor.
That would imply correlation but not causation. In this case there isn't even correlation, implying that people happily spend money to see bad movies, and don't spend money to see good ones.
And in Europe
As in Europe the country? Which part of Europe is that, that bit in the middle where it's customary to tip 10%, that bit a few hundred km in one direction where it's customary to tip just enough to not get spare change, or that bit a few hundred km in the other direction where people are paid a living wage and tips are not only unheard of, you get strange looks if you offer them usually followed by getting your change back.
Yeah why use PDF? Maybe it's because pay layout is a powerful tool for presenting text and graphics in a way to provide additional clarity and meaning to a message. The idea of going to text only email is horrid and I cringe every time I see one.
Hmm, so you're saying they still contain mercury? Isn't mercury bad for you? Even in "reduced" amounts? No thanks.
Sure is. Oxygen is bad for you in reduced amounts or increased amounts too. You know how to get more mercury in your body than inhaling the paltry 2.5mg that is in a CFL? Eating fish. Don't eat fish if you're afraid of mercury, unless you understand science, doses, and concentrations.
You know as I type this I am sitting in an enclosed room with 40 fluor tubes each with roughly 20x the concentration of mercury in them as that scary CFL in your house. We have been doing this since the 70s. ... actually maybe it is bad, it would certainly explain the low level of critical reasoning people are capable of nowadays.
What if they get it wrong? I mean if electric vehicles are the future then just let it happen, no need to force it along with bans and subsidies.
If you remove all government intervention and let the free market decide anything you end up with anarchy. Remember the present situation is not a result of any free market.
What will happen if you don't force it along? The same thing that happens when a company which doesn't care about anything but profit produces the cheapest thing for people who don't care about the environment, and who then go crying when they can't see the end of the street through the smog.
We saw this with the CFL bulb subsidies.
Yes we did. People the world over reduced their energy consumption. The introduction of a product with obvious downside caused a big shift in R&D and as a result we now have excellent LED bulbs to thank for it. LEDs wouldn't have replaced the incandescent in the USA without any government intervention, but they had a lot of incentives to beat out CFLs.
and contain toxic mercury (broken bulbs happen, and in places like where our children sleep and where we prepare their food).
I'd be more worried about getting hit by a meteorite, no..... having my children get hit by a meteorite while they sleep. That is really scary. If on the other hand you do fear 2.5mg of mercury breaking ... lets say once per year in the vicinity of your children, I suggest you never ever eat fish, and certainly not in the recommended weekly levels recommended for healthy people.
What if the claims of algae based diesel fuel becomes a reality? Are we still going to ban internal combustion engines? Maybe ethanol gets real cheap because we found a new way to make it. Maybe we get synthesized hydrocarbons from wind and wave powered factories.
Aside that you're failing to see the problem of burning things with carbon in the name, algae won't become a reality as there is little need or incentive to increase R&D. ... Unlike say LEDs when the incandescent ban was announced and CFL still showed many ugly downsides.
Maybe this ban will actually spur some R&D for alternatives.
Their engineers are just as good at engineering as our lawyers are.
Their engineers are among the best in the world. We should know, we trained them.
Don't conflate cheap construction practices, and built to the lowest cost products with incompetent engineering.