wonkothesane

svanstrom said:

qwerty52 said:

svanstrom said:

qwerty52 said:

I still don’t see the advantage of this device. It is nor crab nor fish. It is at least twice as thick as a normal phone, and still with smaller display then an iPad. I can’t put this silly brick in my pocket and for the same money I can bye an iPhone and an iPad

Consider it a stepping stone. Right now it's not the magic solution to the problem with people wanting displays that are bigger than the device they bring with them; so it's just sort of a solution, for those willing to accept the compromises needed to get the technology as it is today.

Then again, maybe we shouldn't underestimate what "the people" want; perhaps there's a big market for these (once the prices drops to the normal for a more high end phone). Some people want what might seem weird to others; for example, I would easily replace my iPhone with an 8" iPad mini if it got the iPad Pro features/look; so there's at least a market of one for crazy big phones that very much don't fit in a pocket (I consider the Apple Watch to be my primary "phone", though).

The users don’t need a steppingstone, and less more a half steppingstone like this Samsung’s “innovation”.
If this device it’s not the magic solution and not mature enough, then it should stay still in the labs of Samsung and not in the stores.
But obviously Samsung hasn’t problem with that and proudly ask so much money for a half-baked device.

Just like no one should have bothered with trains until they were fast enough and tracks were everywhere, and no one should have bothered making any cars until Tesla came around and perfected them; and no one should have made early day computers because they weren’t perfected yet, and no b/w video games, and no first generation Apple Watch because until they could make the one true and only generation that has all the features that ever could be put in it?