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rogifan_new said:

randominternetperson said:

What’s Samsung’s motivation for showing of a prototype like this?  What do they get out of it?

The comments section of The Verge full of posts claiming Samsung is more innovative than Apple. Heck someone on MacRumors called this “bone crushing” innovation.

Even if Apple had made this first, and for all we now maybe they already have seeing as how they hold years old patents for the design, they wouldn't be caught dead showing this to a worldwide audience at a press event.

Can you imagine the shit that Apple would get from the media if they called this big press event to show off a proof of concept folding screen (seen before) but this time in a phone (after last week, also seen before).

This is a tech that is clearly in its infancy.  It's an early prototype model that you use as a base to build from for future products. It belongs on a lab shelf not centre stage at a big press show. This is actually embarrassing. If Apple did things like this they would be skewered. For some reason, Samsung can call a big press event every time one of their labs farts out an idea and everybody applauds.  Imagine if Apple called a big press event at every stage along the original iPhone design process to show off the latest prototype for a product that might eventually one day go on sale. This is serious minor league garbage and shows the difference in philosophy between the companies and why Samsung can never be Apple no matter how hard they try or how great their REAL products are.

dysamoria said:

Do these connections supply power? Audio output?

Yes to both.

Called this just from the headline. I don’t know why but all Android devices absolutely suck at video recording. Even as Google caught up over the years - and at times took the lead - with photo quality, Apple has owned Google and all of its OEM’s at video recording for as long as I can remember. It’s never even been close. 

The stylishly simple and minimalist look of Pages hides a powerful writing tool that can't perform one of the most basic functions in a word processor. A feature it used to have and one which has been available on TextEdit since day one. How does this word processor in 2018 still not have the ability to select multiple strings of text simultaneously? I have been waiting 9 years for this feature to return to Pages since the big overhaul after iWork 09 and still nothing. It makes the app unusable. If for instance I decide to go back and make all of my headings bold. I have to individually select each heading and then go to the format screen and hit bold and then repeat for each individual heading one by one. Its absolutely ridiculous. 

What I got out of all this is how horribly stupid and nonsensical Android share sheets are. It looks like it’s providing great sharing options at first glance but it’s all rubbish bloatware, unnecessary duplicated apps and options to share files to apps that would not be able to even read the file let alone extend a work flow to it.