baka-dubbs

AppleInsider said:

You can, though, get the Kindle app for iPhone or iPad and turn those far more capable devices into e-readers.

The distraction-free nature of Kindle is a real selling point, but for value for money, iOS with the Kindle app is gigantically better.

I will preface this by saying I am a bit of a Kindle evangelist(e-readers in general, so if you prefer Nook or Kobo, similar arguments would apply).

I would argue for a single use case, the Kindle is a fantastic value and does what it advertises as well or better than just about any device.  If you are a frequent reader and value avoiding eyestrain, then IOS and the kindle app(or android, windows or mac and the kindle app) do not offer more value for the money.  I have been using a Kindle Voyage(which replaced a first gen Kindle Touch) and I will gladly continue to pay 200+ for a device that is still going strong over 4 years later.  Yes, it is not a multi use device like anything running iOS, but that doesn't mean those devices offer more value for the money.  For a strained comparison, iOS is a multiuse tool like a Leatherman, its really good at everything, where as the Kindle is just a really good knife. 

anantksundaram said:

China will be shooting itself in both feet if it -- or its citizenry -- puts the screws on Apple. It's not just the hardware assembly jobs or in Apple offices and retail stores there, but the many multiples of that number working for makers of cases, accessories, apps, and media content, for starters. 

I dare them to try throttling Apple in China.

Agreed.  Not sure there is a great solution for either country, but China has to worry about throttling/affecting american companies in general.  In the short term they can do a lot of damage to American companies, but in the long term they could cause a massive shift in production to emerging economies.  The recent rare earth metals threat could massively backfire if it causes other countries to begin mining and separating these metals.   Look at how the US energy market has emerged(with the abundance of natural gas obviously helping) has at least tempered OPEC's power.

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baka-dubbs said:

You literally reposted the section of your article from yesterday where you referred to Samsung smart tv OS as inscrutable.  You never explained how clicking one button, scrolling to an app, and clicking another button is "inscrutable".  You then went on and said that it was the "nexus" of the OS and the app was the issue, when the apps behavior is the same in tvOS.  I didn't feel the need to rehash the conversation over again, as you are once again deflecting.  Here is an article from Toms Guide's if anyone wants a more impartial guide to the various smart tv OS's.

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/smartest-smart-tv,review-5986.html

You posted a personal attack implying that the article is maliciously spinning facts falsely to misinform people simply because you took personal offenses at the characterization of Tizen TV UI as “inscrutable.”

That’s ridiculous. Absolutely nutty. 

Go go to any general commentary site and virtually everyone describes Tizen as an unworkable pile of crap with a terrible design. A report on Ars Technica said “Samsung’s Tizen is riddled with security flaws, amateurishly written" and a developer called it the "worst code [he's] ever seen.""

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/04/samsungs-tizen-is-riddled-with-security-flaws-amateurishly-written/

If an editorial calls a UI inscrutable, you can form and state your own personal opinion freely, but when you demand that nobody ever cross your ideas on the subject, you are way out of line. And when you disparage the author as a liar trying to deceive people over your love for a universally panned turd sandwich, it’s just insane.  

You’re getting a free opportunity to throw your opinions out on commentary you paid nothing to read. So don’t be such a hateful embittered critic trying to malign and personally attack every article you read here. It’s really too much dude.  

If you can't see what your doing is deflecting, then I don't know what to say.  What does an article over 2 years ago about security or how the coding was written have to do with making a UI easily understandable.  Inscrutable means impossible to understand or interpret.  So many people are using the samsung tv's without issues, I don't think you can factually refer to it as inscrutable.  You haven't explained to me how a single button press, selecting an app, and pressing a button is a difficult concept.  You complained about the Netflix app as one of your arguments when that app wasn't written by Samsung either.   Your moving the goal posts.  I even said in an earlier post I don't want anything to do with Samsung's ecosystem due to mandatory advertising.  I bought a Vizio and promptly turned off the user monitoring and hooked up an Apple TV.  But I don't need to validate my buying choices by making ridiculous statements about other products that are easily disputed.

Here are a few more examples of people rating the various TV OS's, including ease of use.

https://www.techradar.com/news/television/6-best-smart-tv-platforms-in-the-world-today-1120795

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/best/by-features/smart-internet-streaming

I don't take personal offense at all, I said you were engaging in hyperbole.  You are not a victim here.  You are posting an opinion article on a website I frequently read.  I have been registered since 2011 and I have a whopping 104 comments.  I just don't understand why you feel the need to make these outlandish statements, then double down on it. 

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baka-dubbs said:

Yes, and if he follows his typical MO, he will try to refute a few critiques through deflection, give up, then repost the same spin in his next "Editorial"(he literally copy and pasted sections from his article yesterday).  He rarely addresses the actual points being brought up without trying to move the goalposts.  Check out the comments sections of his "Editorial" from yesterday to see the same pattern.

If you had a valid point or concern, you could just say what it was rather than making a generalized personal attack that demands somebody else spend time researching what your point must be and then an argument showing why it is invalid, while you jump to another generalized personal attack.

That's a pretty well established pattered among the 10 people who show up and post negative insults in the comments of every AI article. 

 

You literally reposted the section of your article from yesterday where you referred to Samsung smart tv OS as inscrutable.  You never explained how clicking one button, scrolling to an app, and clicking another button is "inscrutable".  You then went on and said that it was the "nexus" of the OS and the app was the issue, when the apps behavior is the same in tvOS.  I didn't feel the need to rehash the conversation over again, as you are once again deflecting.  Here is an article from Toms Guide's if anyone wants a more impartial guide to the various smart tv OS's.

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/smartest-smart-tv,review-5986.html

kruegdude said:

Wait? Corrections is Daniel? 

Yes, and if he follows his typical MO, he will try to refute a few critiques through deflection, give up, then repost the same spin in his next "Editorial"(he literally copy and pasted sections from his article yesterday).  He rarely addresses the actual points being brought up without trying to move the goalposts.  Check out the comments sections of his "Editorial" from yesterday to see the same pattern.