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SendMcjak said:

It seems like the intention of this article (aptly: "piece") was to assert that Google's advertising doesn't work, but the article speaks out of both sides of its mouth.

If the Pixel is a lackluster piece of hardware ("a turd"), then even the world's best advertising won't work, especially -- as the article points out -- when one considers the limited target demographic (high-end, premium priced Android).

The Pixel may be a turd as compared to say an iPhone, but it's one of the best Android phones on the market.  The Pixel's sales are proportionally low relative to the device's quality ranking withing the overall Android market.  

Taking this one step further, I think it also shows that Android users don't care about security or getting regular system updates either.  Let's be fair here, it's not as if the low end Nexus models sold any better than the Pixels.  I think it's fair to question the value of Google's advertising.

entropys said:

i also note that while HP is the biggest with massive volume compared with Apple, it’s growth rate was higher than Apple.

That's a valid observation. However, you have to keep something in mind. The Windows PC market is a commodity market. Increases in one vendor is often offset by decreases in another as the latest sales or promotions go through. The fact that Apple's Mac growth is out pacing the overall PC market growth is really the more significant piece of news. This is especially true as Apple continues to gain ground in the enterprise market. The Mac market is also a market that Apple cares little about and pays little attention to. Mac mini hasn't been updated in 3 years. The Mac Pro hasn't been updated in 4 years.... and this product line is still outpacing the PC market growth.

tipoo said:

Is the visual sharpness of the screen around curves and small text (check the notification dot for an easy example) closer to the standard 8, or 8 Plus? 

The 450ppi is higher than the Plus, but with a diamond pentile that means the red and blue channels are 2/3rds the pure numeric value of the green. 

I find the Plus pretty good (albeit with some downscaling blur), but the standard 8 is visibly lowish ppi for my eyes. Curious which the X falls closer to. 

You make the same unfounded comments in multiple forums. Yes, you need a higher pixel density on Pentile screens to match the sharpness of RGB based screens. No, the standard 8 is not "visibly lowish" in any regard. Unless you have super human vision and/or you hold your phone ridiculously close to your eyes, your claims are BS. There is a reason something is called a Retina display and it's not just a marketing term. This can be proven mathematically as well. 20/20 vision is the ability to discern 1 minute of arc. The rest can be proven mathematically. Let me know if you need help with the math.

smaffei said:

jwblocal701 said:

Or you can just use Mac dvd ripper and handbrake and covert your disc’s yourself and not have to pay the fee...Smh

Well… To some of us who make more than $10 an hour,  time is worth more than the money. 

Say you make $30 an hour (which most of the readers here do)... $2 (for a straight DVD-> 480p conversion) is only 4 minutes of your time. Even with a fast machine, a DVD rip takes at least 30 minutes (and pretty much ties up the machine). You just spent $15 of time to not spend $2.  SMH.

The "time is money" argument is rather weak and really doesn't hold up.  These are the types of things that one does in the background.  Nobody just sits there and watches their screen as the rip or compress is happening.  It's a background task.  

To some of us, it's nice to be able to make rip and then to never have to think or worry about it again.  When a movie studio decides to pull out of the deal sometime down the road... that's a problem for you.  If you have the rip, you don't care.  When you have the rip, you can transfer to any device or any platform that you wish and have it play back on any software that you wish.  You can use the iTunes server or you can setup a Plex server in your home.  There is just more flexibility and more future proofing by taking control of the rip from the beginning.  

dewme said:

IMHO this is another red flag of concern about APFS reliability. The tolerance for bugs in such a critical operating system component should be as close to zero as humanly possible. 

You are jumping to an unsupported conclusion by assuming this is a bug or in any way an APFS reliability issue. There are a few fundamental differences with the way some things are being handled by design. Programs that use bad practices or that make unsafe assumptions are likely to be impacted by this. As an example, do a little research on Unicode normalization as an example of how HFS+ and APFS handle things differently by design.