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If they really wanted this to be about "doing", they'd give the USB-C port display out capability and let it be used with an external display, like Samsung does with DeX. Android phones with a lapdock and desktop UI are almos
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Jobs said a lot of things designed to make his tchotchke look better than the other guy's. He said he couldn't use a Samsung 8 inch tablet without filing his fingers down, while working on the iPad Mini at that same exact time.
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Big corps were the ones to move away from Blackbery en masse towards a BYOD system. Before that, Samsung and Nokia both had a series of keyboard phones running Windows Mobile 6 or SymbianOS. I had the Samsung Blackjack II in 2008.
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If pictures are important to the buyer, they should get a high end Samsung, iPhone or specialty Huawei/Vivo models. Every other phone will have a generic camera lens and imaging algorithm. Source: I have purchased a lot of phones. A 4
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Not the person you're replying to, but I was a big BB user in the 2000s and had the Blackberry Passport briefly in 2015 to test its Android app compatibility (it was pretty damn compatible!). What I discovered was that the best BB keyb
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Very easy to do when priced at $3500 and brazenly designed to deepen their own walled garden lock-in.
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> Creators put their videos on YouTube because that is the way to reach a nearly global audience at zero cost. If a tree fell and there was no one around, did it make a sound? A cursory look through r/newtubers would show you that t
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Precisely. I have made my own e-cards to send to friends to commemorate holidays and outings. All HTML + CSS, responsive and looks fine on all devices.
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There's certain level of friction to everything; that acts as a filter to separate those who choose to proceed anyway and those who don't. If you want to start painting, you have to buy a canvas, an easel, brushes, paint and set a
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There's a line from a 2009 episode of The Office that sums it up: Jim: "Pam texted back saying we could give them all iPods". Phyllis: Oh, if they don't have an iPod by now they really don't want one." Webs
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Time and money. There are laws limiting email spam because the unit cost of sending and distributing them is almost zero, which is a great incentive for bad people. Hiring actors and shooting videos for political propaganda takes time and m
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What's the process for initiation into the "west" these days? Colonizing someone else's territory and sweeping it under the rug as brazenly as possible? It certainly isn't freedom of expression or respect for the ru
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A 27-country bloc will struggle to accelerate on anything when one veto is all it takes to hit the brakes. Only 12 nations needed to agree when when the EU voted to institute a common currency in 1992.
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> "On top of that, all payment systems are American: American Express, Visa, Mastercard. Overnight, you find yourself without a bank card, and these companies have an almost complete monopoly, at least in Europe." On one hand,
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How about the possibility that the cost of lying is less than the capital gains that can be realized by lying about it? EM was only fined $20 million when he said he had secured funding to take the company private at $420/share [0]. Th
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"Tech Optimism"
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Used to be that only the consumer was exploited this way. Manually turn off notifications and permissions in an app, only to have them turned back on after an app update. This is why I block app updates across the board. My bank app will te
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As a podcast listener, I can think of a few reasons: - 10-20 companies focused on Direct to Customer (DTC) products seem to make up the majority of advertisers for a lot of podcasts: VPNs, mattresses, personal grooming products, discount co
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I wouldn't imagine so. It is a different device category targeted at a different kind of user. They're entertainment devices first and foremost, where as the "handheld PC" category targeted business customers, some of wh
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Ecommerce itself involved exploiting government regulations around sales taxes. Amazon didn't charge sales tax for over a decade because it had no physical location outside of WA. That alone gave it a massive price advantage over every
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Hey, it could be worse. They could have voted to ban it entirely unless they sold their European operations to friends of EU bureaucrats. There's some precedent for that now.
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Sayings like "Vote with your wallet" come about as a byproduct of living in an economic system that is on its face democratic and capitalist yet somehow still concentrates political and market power in the hands of a few. If somet
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I'd argue that the invasion of Iraq benefited plenty of neoconservative aims: 1) eliminating a military threat to Saudi Arabia and Israel 2) placing hundreds of military outposts on Iran's doorstep 3) destabilizing Iran and Syria
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Christmas has been coming early for China ever since the invasion of Iraq.
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Interestingly, Proton does a lot of what you're talking about: email hosting, password management, cloud storage, docs and spreadsheets. The only thing they don't have is their own browser.
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Mozilla has plenty of engineers. I wouldn't underestimate the degree to which the engineers themselves are pushing for AI features. After all, they are working at a nonprofit organization for below-market wages, and will at some point
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> 15 years later and the iPad is still the only tablet anyone really talks about. When was the last time anybody talked about the iPad outside of a product launch event? iPad sales are falling [0]. It, like every other type of tablet, is
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Ad blocking proliferates, yet Google continues to make more ad revenue than they did the year before. How does that happen? It happens by improving margins by paying site owners less per ad than they did before. This resulted in mass-produ
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This is why banks have physical locations with live tellers. And also why I'll never open an account with a regulations-dodging "disruptor" banks where everything must be done through the app.
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Apple's ad business is estimated to be at $6.5 billion annually as of 2024[0]. Since then, they've decided to bring ads to Apple Maps. And of course there was the infamous ad for some movie on Apple TV injected into Apple Wallet e

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