That's fine. The Samsung Note series focus on delivering state of art technology and user experience. It's the Mercedes-Benz S-class of smartphones. You don't have to buy it, but it does remain oh so desirable regardless.
1. It is preposterous to demand that Samsung (or anyone else) releases a brand new device with the version of Android that came out just days or weeks ago because the test and release cycle for the new hardware products is taking MONTHS. Why should Samsung push the release of a new phone down to say November or December just because a few weenies who think they _must_ have the latest version of Android NOW?
2. The list of changes between subsequent Android releases tiny and insignificant from the perspective of the end user. Sure, the changes between Lollipop and Oreo may have been significant. But going from Nougat or Oreo, all I can recall to change visibly is the picture in picture mode.
And Russians have used malware to get location-data to target Ukrainian forces.
I am sorry, but you need to spend about 20 seconds of your google time to find out that this story has been debunked and Crowdstrike partially retracted its claims. This was pretty much a manufactured story released in December of 2016 back when the media hysteria about Russian hacking and interference was just picking up steam.
For many people a call phone is used much more than a laptop, so arguably if you're going to spend $1,000 on tech there's more return on the cell phone than a laptop. Don't think of it as "just a phone" - think of it as the personal electronics that most consumers use more than any other, as a camera, camcorder, web browser, email, etc.
The problem with this argument is that a cheap sub-300 dollar phone can do almost all of these things just as well as a flagship phone. They run the same OS as Android flagships. They run the same apps. They now come with large and bright FHD screens and even cameras on cheap phones have been getting pretty decent.
The only big difference is now in the processor specs, which the expensive phones coming with cores that can be 2-3 times faster than something like Arm Cortex-53. But at the end of the day, how much horsepower do you really need to browse the web or send messages. It turns out not a whole lot. The low end Snapdragon 450 or 625 SoC can deal with all these tasks and is now installed in many sub-300 devices.
I applaud Samsung for keeping the high end Android tablet products alive, but at 650USD (which is MSRP for base model), it's basically competing in the laptop territory. Moreover, would you spend this kind of money on a computer whose manufacturer does not guarantee updates after two years? (in fact, the first two years the updates can be also very spotty). Finally, considering the pricing, they could at least ship with with a 2018 SoC, instead of SD835 from 1.5 years ago.
While Android tablets have their niche in computing, most people treat them as a toy or as a media consumption device for streaming video, and such price is simply ridiculous.
If they were, then they would allow XP and Vista users to upgrade.
This would be a waste of support time for Microsoft because most of XP rigs are _really_ old and are not sufficiently fast or lack the RAM to run Windows Vista/7/8/10 comfortably.
However, if you have a PC that runs Windows Vista comfortably, then it is very likely to do well under Windows 10. There actually used to be a loophole to upgrade Windows Vista PCs to 10 for free a couple of years ago, and it worked well on friend's ancient Core 2 Duo desktop which I upgraded just out of curiosity to see Windows 10 run on 10 year old PC.
Why hasn't Microsoft pushed hard to upgrade the Vista users to upgrade to 10? It beats me, but my guess is that MS did not bother because Windows Vista was a universally hated OS that most people avoided like plague and corporations wouldn't touch with a 10ft pole. The truth is that Vista wasn't so bad, but at the time of its introduction it required a massive hardware upgrade from Windows XP hardware, while the subsequent Windows versions seemed to have lighter and lighter requirements.
A Sandy Bridge desktop or laptop from 2011 or 2012 can still be a formidable gaming box or a developer rig. Likewise, Windows 8 PCs from before 2015 can be even more capable. I actually bought a brand new Dell XPS workstation running Windows 7 as recently as 2016.
Remember how they once tried to ban the JROTC because of the war in Iraq, while shielding known juvenile delinquents and known bandits from from immigration authorities? They also tried a special tax on alcohol to cover the city's own health care costs.
I honestly wouldn't stomach watching a new Hollywood movie every month. I barely see maybe five-six new films per year. At this rate, even the old 10 bucks a month deal would still be terrible.
For 90 percent of people, Android tablet is a media consumption device. They browse the web, read books, and stream videos. For this purpose any modern ARM XPU core is fine.
Lenovo, Samsung, and Huawei have several Android tablet products each and keep updating at least one of them every year. Tablet sales are upparently strong enough that these three plus Amazon are staying in the tablet business. The reason tablet sales are falling is because most people who wanted a tablet already got one, and they're keeping them for a long time since the tablet market is not suffering from must-replace-ecery year fad.
going from coal miners without military experience to Russian professionals making their own decisions seems like you're skipping a lot of possibilities in between.
The international trade and transfers in the surface to air missile systems that are capable of hitting a passenger jet liner (or a fighter jet) at the cruise altitude are some of the most well-monitored, regulated, and politicized in the world. If Russia transferred the weapon to be in the hands of the possibilities in between, that probably still qualifies as a crime.
Russia did not pull the trigger - they gave a powerful weapon to untrained rebels who did pull the trigger.
I am sorry, but a random Cossack or a coal miner from Donbas is not going to figure out how to operate such a complex piece of machinery as the Buk SAM system after taking only a two-week crash course. It had to be operated by full-time Russian professionals.
The problem with Essential phone was not it did not include this or that feature. One can't break into a market with so many established global brand names, and then charge the Apple or Samsung prices for your product.
Try to tell your friend or a relative from among those who don't read tech news every day why don't you check out the Essential Phone? "Essential what?!" will be their first reply. The second question will be why is it so bloody expensive. Let's go back to the poor branding of this device. When somebody offers me to acquire an essential car, home, or other device, I will assume that I am getting the low-end low-cost "essential" features only (e.g. makes calls...).
Even if they got the brand name right, you're not going to convince an average consumer that this is better than Apple, Samsung or LG. The correct strategy of the Essential phone would be to repeat the success of the chinese Oneplus. Recall the Original Oneplus One from 2014. It cost 300USD (350 for the 64GB model) while being an honest phone and having the specs of a typical flagship phone. It was globally successful. Then they continued building on this success with the subsequent equally high end, but still value priced, models like 2 and 3. One can argue that the current 5 and 6 are no longer as value priced (the brand new 6 starts at 525USD), but in the past years the brand has built a good reputation among consumers and apparently can afford to charge higher prices for its products.
What sort of alternative reality are you living in? The majority of Crimean population are ethnic Russians. The Russian federation did not need to bus anyone to win the referendum there. And this is why neither Ukraine or USA would ever agree to a pieaceful resolution of the Crimean dispute through a internationally recognized referendum because it's simple as 1-2-3-4 that the Crimeans will vote for union with Russia again and again.
I don't really understand the "cult of the Whole Foods" market that has been affecting a whole bunch of American grocery shoppers for a long time. I have visited Whole Foods stores maybe three or four times in my life, and every time I did, my jaws dropped looking at the prices there. And the items I was looking at were not some kind of organic, free-range, farmer raised products. Those were ordinary imported cheeses, bottled juices, or beers, the stuff that everyone else sells. Moreover, wherever I lived, the local and regional supermarkets have always been carrying organic products for a very long time now.
The White Helmets are US-UK-Turkish funded emergency first responders who seem to do their work only in jihadist infested rebel areas in Western Syria (but not for example in Kurdish areas). In the places where they're seen, a "human rights worker" would have his head chopped off.
Oh geez. Why are you crying a river over a fake reporting on a one dead girl? Remember how the day before the Syrian finally expelled the Al-Queda affiliates ("moderate rebels" in the western-speak) from East Aleppo the entire western media exploded about how 83 charred and tortured bodies of the rebels were allegedly seen in East Aleppo. Respectable, established news outlets like BBC, CNN, etc all picked up this story and run with it. And then silence the next day. Nobody followed it up. Nobody retracted it. Talk about the western fake news.
Also the western news media hardly ever reports how the western coalition bombs civilians in ISIS-held areas. For example, by most accounts, the battle of Mosul was a bloodbath and Americans bombed civilians there for hours, resulting in hundreds of dead, before saying "oops". In fall of 2015, US bombed the SAA forces in Deir-ez zor, which was completely surrounded by ISIS forces for years, for hours, killing near a hundred SAA fighters, resulting the SAA positions in Deir-ez zor airport split from the main city by ISIS, and then the coalition said "oops". For some reason, the western media reports none of that although they always love to report a heart-warming story about the US-UK-Turkish funded "white helmets", the first responders who for some reason choose to operate only in jihadist infested areas.
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That's fine. The Samsung Note series focus on delivering state of art technology and user experience. It's the Mercedes-Benz S-class of smartphones. You don't have to buy it, but it does remain oh so desirable regardless.
1. It is preposterous to demand that Samsung (or anyone else) releases a brand new device with the version of Android that came out just days or weeks ago because the test and release cycle for the new hardware products is taking MONTHS. Why should Samsung push the release of a new phone down to say November or December just because a few weenies who think they _must_ have the latest version of Android NOW?
2. The list of changes between subsequent Android releases tiny and insignificant from the perspective of the end user. Sure, the changes between Lollipop and Oreo may have been significant. But going from Nougat or Oreo, all I can recall to change visibly is the picture in picture mode.
Now AI is going to trash Wikipedia with useless stub articles based on information you can google within 10 seconds That's just what we need.
In other news, Oreo's share among Android installations is just under 13%.
And Russians have used malware to get location-data to target Ukrainian forces.
I am sorry, but you need to spend about 20 seconds of your google time to find out that this story has been debunked and Crowdstrike partially retracted its claims. This was pretty much a manufactured story released in December of 2016 back when the media hysteria about Russian hacking and interference was just picking up steam.
For many people a call phone is used much more than a laptop, so arguably if you're going to spend $1,000 on tech there's more return on the cell phone than a laptop. Don't think of it as "just a phone" - think of it as the personal electronics that most consumers use more than any other, as a camera, camcorder, web browser, email, etc.
The problem with this argument is that a cheap sub-300 dollar phone can do almost all of these things just as well as a flagship phone. They run the same OS as Android flagships. They run the same apps. They now come with large and bright FHD screens and even cameras on cheap phones have been getting pretty decent.
The only big difference is now in the processor specs, which the expensive phones coming with cores that can be 2-3 times faster than something like Arm Cortex-53. But at the end of the day, how much horsepower do you really need to browse the web or send messages. It turns out not a whole lot. The low end Snapdragon 450 or 625 SoC can deal with all these tasks and is now installed in many sub-300 devices.
I applaud Samsung for keeping the high end Android tablet products alive, but at 650USD (which is MSRP for base model), it's basically competing in the laptop territory. Moreover, would you spend this kind of money on a computer whose manufacturer does not guarantee updates after two years? (in fact, the first two years the updates can be also very spotty). Finally, considering the pricing, they could at least ship with with a 2018 SoC, instead of SD835 from 1.5 years ago.
While Android tablets have their niche in computing, most people treat them as a toy or as a media consumption device for streaming video, and such price is simply ridiculous.
If they were, then they would allow XP and Vista users to upgrade.
This would be a waste of support time for Microsoft because most of XP rigs are _really_ old and are not sufficiently fast or lack the RAM to run Windows Vista/7/8/10 comfortably.
However, if you have a PC that runs Windows Vista comfortably, then it is very likely to do well under Windows 10. There actually used to be a loophole to upgrade Windows Vista PCs to 10 for free a couple of years ago, and it worked well on friend's ancient Core 2 Duo desktop which I upgraded just out of curiosity to see Windows 10 run on 10 year old PC.
Why hasn't Microsoft pushed hard to upgrade the Vista users to upgrade to 10? It beats me, but my guess is that MS did not bother because Windows Vista was a universally hated OS that most people avoided like plague and corporations wouldn't touch with a 10ft pole. The truth is that Vista wasn't so bad, but at the time of its introduction it required a massive hardware upgrade from Windows XP hardware, while the subsequent Windows versions seemed to have lighter and lighter requirements.
So That 2008 Windows 7 PC
A Sandy Bridge desktop or laptop from 2011 or 2012 can still be a formidable gaming box or a developer rig. Likewise, Windows 8 PCs from before 2015 can be even more capable. I actually bought a brand new Dell XPS workstation running Windows 7 as recently as 2016.
Remember how they once tried to ban the JROTC because of the war in Iraq, while shielding known juvenile delinquents and known bandits from from immigration authorities? They also tried a special tax on alcohol to cover the city's own health care costs.
I honestly wouldn't stomach watching a new Hollywood movie every month. I barely see maybe five-six new films per year. At this rate, even the old 10 bucks a month deal would still be terrible.
I suspect it's in part because Apple got caught artificially slowing down older devices
Apple slowed down those devices in order to avoid an expensive battery recall process.
For 90 percent of people, Android tablet is a media consumption device. They browse the web, read books, and stream videos. For this purpose any modern ARM XPU core is fine.
Lenovo, Samsung, and Huawei have several Android tablet products each and keep updating at least one of them every year. Tablet sales are upparently strong enough that these three plus Amazon are staying in the tablet business. The reason tablet sales are falling is because most people who wanted a tablet already got one, and they're keeping them for a long time since the tablet market is not suffering from must-replace-ecery year fad.
going from coal miners without military experience to Russian professionals making their own decisions seems like you're skipping a lot of possibilities in between.
The international trade and transfers in the surface to air missile systems that are capable of hitting a passenger jet liner (or a fighter jet) at the cruise altitude are some of the most well-monitored, regulated, and politicized in the world. If Russia transferred the weapon to be in the hands of the possibilities in between, that probably still qualifies as a crime.
Most likely by Russian govt. agents.
Whoa. Did they drop their Lubyanka parking receipts in the trashcan or used "russian-only" military grade bullets?
Russia did not pull the trigger - they gave a powerful weapon to untrained rebels who did pull the trigger.
I am sorry, but a random Cossack or a coal miner from Donbas is not going to figure out how to operate such a complex piece of machinery as the Buk SAM system after taking only a two-week crash course. It had to be operated by full-time Russian professionals.
The problem with Essential phone was not it did not include this or that feature. One can't break into a market with so many established global brand names, and then charge the Apple or Samsung prices for your product.
Try to tell your friend or a relative from among those who don't read tech news every day why don't you check out the Essential Phone? "Essential what?!" will be their first reply. The second question will be why is it so bloody expensive. Let's go back to the poor branding of this device. When somebody offers me to acquire an essential car, home, or other device, I will assume that I am getting the low-end low-cost "essential" features only (e.g. makes calls...).
Even if they got the brand name right, you're not going to convince an average consumer that this is better than Apple, Samsung or LG. The correct strategy of the Essential phone would be to repeat the success of the chinese Oneplus. Recall the Original Oneplus One from 2014. It cost 300USD (350 for the 64GB model) while being an honest phone and having the specs of a typical flagship phone. It was globally successful. Then they continued building on this success with the subsequent equally high end, but still value priced, models like 2 and 3. One can argue that the current 5 and 6 are no longer as value priced (the brand new 6 starts at 525USD), but in the past years the brand has built a good reputation among consumers and apparently can afford to charge higher prices for its products.
What sort of alternative reality are you living in? The majority of Crimean population are ethnic Russians. The Russian federation did not need to bus anyone to win the referendum there. And this is why neither Ukraine or USA would ever agree to a pieaceful resolution of the Crimean dispute through a internationally recognized referendum because it's simple as 1-2-3-4 that the Crimeans will vote for union with Russia again and again.
I don't really understand the "cult of the Whole Foods" market that has been affecting a whole bunch of American grocery shoppers for a long time. I have visited Whole Foods stores maybe three or four times in my life, and every time I did, my jaws dropped looking at the prices there. And the items I was looking at were not some kind of organic, free-range, farmer raised products. Those were ordinary imported cheeses, bottled juices, or beers, the stuff that everyone else sells. Moreover, wherever I lived, the local and regional supermarkets have always been carrying organic products for a very long time now.
Please get the facts straight.
The White Helmets are US-UK-Turkish funded emergency first responders who seem to do their work only in jihadist infested rebel areas in Western Syria (but not for example in Kurdish areas). In the places where they're seen, a "human rights worker" would have his head chopped off.
Oh geez. Why are you crying a river over a fake reporting on a one dead girl? Remember how the day before the Syrian finally expelled the Al-Queda affiliates ("moderate rebels" in the western-speak) from East Aleppo the entire western media exploded about how 83 charred and tortured bodies of the rebels were allegedly seen in East Aleppo. Respectable, established news outlets like BBC, CNN, etc all picked up this story and run with it. And then silence the next day. Nobody followed it up. Nobody retracted it. Talk about the western fake news.
Also the western news media hardly ever reports how the western coalition bombs civilians in ISIS-held areas. For example, by most accounts, the battle of Mosul was a bloodbath and Americans bombed civilians there for hours, resulting in hundreds of dead, before saying "oops". In fall of 2015, US bombed the SAA forces in Deir-ez zor, which was completely surrounded by ISIS forces for years, for hours, killing near a hundred SAA fighters, resulting the SAA positions in Deir-ez zor airport split from the main city by ISIS, and then the coalition said "oops". For some reason, the western media reports none of that although they always love to report a heart-warming story about the US-UK-Turkish funded "white helmets", the first responders who for some reason choose to operate only in jihadist infested areas.
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Sigh. If only California+NYC could decide the presidential elections... this country would have its second civil war.