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by rickdeckard 2mo ago
Apple rather wants to make it unattractive for users who frequently change phones to 1. Consider trying other brands 2. Pass on their existing (still quite capable) phone to a family member (taking him/her out of the purchasing loop) 3
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
The hobbyist device maker in me took waaay to long to be certain that this is NOT about physical batteries... (was already confident, then there's suddenly a screenshot mentioning display components)
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
The headline would be more appropriate if it said "Oppo stops Sales under OnePlus brand" For the past years OnePlus wasn't much more than a sub-brand for slightly redesigned Oppo devices anyway...
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
> people buying iPhones because of hype and not because they were meaningfully better than the competition in ways that many people valued. Is that not what you meant? No, hype and demand are not exclusive to each other. You can create h
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
That's the point, the dimension is "yeah, the ODM also offers a 2 USD cheaper hub that uses a USB2.0 controller for 7 of the 8 ports" , and now you're browsing a list of equally looking products spanning 5 to 15 USD wit
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
The headline "Oppo stops sale under OnePlus brand in US and Europe" would be more appropriate. OnePlus products were mostly slightly redesigned Oppo products for the past years, built on the same hardware and running the same OS
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
> Apple explained that it found a bug while investigating internal messages between a then-current employee, Yu-Ting “Alyssa” Peng, and an engineer [..] Chang Liu. > Liu left Apple for OpenAI in January 2026. However, on February 9,
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Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets(arstechnica.com)
4 points by rickdeckard 3mo ago|2 comments
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
My first thought whenever I come across such a badly-engineered no-name device is "oh great, another bad reference design which will poison the pool of all the available devices out there" It helps a bit to spot and avoid that exa
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
I like the hilarious commitment to art, by Paramount/WB committing to "make at least 30 films annually". Who says anyone will want to see one of those "we had to release 15 more, so we had to rush, here they are" pr
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
I don't know why you're coming to the rescue of the iPhone here. Everyone knows it was a successful product, no one said that the iPhone was "unappealing in the market". Quite the opposite, the demand was so high that Ap
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
> [..] the Maps experience on its own was enough of an improvement to justify it To justify what? What exactly are you defending in such an emotional way...?
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
> Microsoft paid $7.2 billion for Nokia's loss making phone division in 2013. There's no way anybody would have paid that much for just another Android OEM. They paid for a fully operating Windows Phone company with competiti
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
For YEARS to come, carriers refused to rectify this skewed market, so while Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Samsung, LG had to continue jumping through hoops and could only earn money at the point of sale, while Apple's monthly income accum
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
> Partanen was also at Nokia’s post-iPhone launch meeting, and recalls that there was little concern in the room. “We felt okay,” he says. Which is a perfectly reasonable reaction, the first iPhone was an iPod with a sub-par Browser an
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
“This is yet another competitor launching a great product. But we had no doubt that, if it’s successful, we would do the same. We will launch similar products.” In November 2008, Nokia released the 5800 Xpress Music, a year and a half afte
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
that mystery was quite easy to solve via Google. Searching for "waydroid_x86_64 LineageOS 20.0" leads to a sourceforge page [0] of waydroid with LineageOS builds that have 70-80k downloads per month. It seems to be popular to be i
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
All of my installs I can think of are actually "unofficial builds", none of them are Smartphones. There are e.g. LineageOS builds for Tablets and also Smarthome devices, like the Amazon Echo Show 5, Lenovo ThinkView Displays, etc.
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
The Xiaomi Mi 8 was the fastest-selling Xiaomi device of all time, it's estimated to have sold more than 20 Million units. It was so crucial to Xiaomi's userbase that they supported it with updates for almost 8 (!) years. So yeah,
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
funny enough, just noticed on jailbreak that my kindle touch web-browser never lost its "beta" label, in all those years :)
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
Everybody, get up, we're leaving. Jailbreak your kindles and move to epub. It's not that difficult. Buy books at Kobo or bookshop.org There are so many functional kindles out there, this could be the event that changes the power
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
It's an exceptionally odd decision, but planned for approx. a year now. - First they stopped allowing download of purchased books for cable-transfer to kindle in 2025. - Then they amped up their effort to avoid jailbreaking by suddenly
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
The lower margin for the new variant you mean? From my experience, it comes from costs generated by: 1. Additional R&D-work and QA for the modification 2. New supply-chain deals for lower-volume components Current sales-volume of Euro
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
In my experience this doesn't work because people in large groups usually demand maintenance for free and donate explicitly for features they personally want. You usually end up with insufficient donations to move anything, but now gai
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
That's probably because Iceland is not an official Sales-territory of Nintendo, it's handled by Bergsala AB, a swedish distributor which serves the market there.
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
According to their latest fiscal report [0], Europe sales-volume of Switch2 is ~24% of the total global sales volume. The change surely eats into their margin per device, so they prefer to keep the higher margin for the rest of the world an
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
Interesting, in the fineprint they actually confirm that they set the "Switch 1" End-Of-Life by Feb.2027 and stop selling it. This means they will lose the revenue of that product-line (currently ~15% of their total hardware unit
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
More complete: The below products will not be replaced by versions that contain user-replaceable batteries in Europe: - Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Controller for Nintendo Switch - Pokémon™ GO Plus + - Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Sw
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
Might be an unpopular opinion, but: 1. They open sourced the entire Software under GPL from the start, and always pushed all their changes to that public github. 2. They supported the first-party firmware for years, including huge rewrites
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by rickdeckard 3mo ago
> I think it's an accurate description of a common way of thinking, though I wouldn't call it conservative in the global sense. It's not a common way of thinking, not in my observation. Conservative / neo-liberal narr

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