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Apple iPhone 8 Plus vs Google Pixel 2 XL: camera is only part of the package
michael scrip said:The Verge... literally gave the Apple Watch 3 a rating of 5 out of 10 while In the same week, they gave the Fitbit Iconic a rating of 7. WTF?
That's... like... the most important part of the Apple Watch LTE.
Apple admitted the problem and has provided a fix... but it appears that The Verge doesn't ever update scores after an initial review. -
Apple iPhone 8 Plus vs Google Pixel 2 XL: camera is only part of the package
Blunt said:Who cares about The Verge? They have no impact on the average buyer. These tech sites are so overrated. They need Google and Samsung spends millions of dollars advertising on these sites.
Back in the day you had the MacWorld magazine. Sometimes an add for lets say a scanner had four pages and in the same magazine that scanner got a real bad review! Those days are gone. Now we have tech sites that suck.
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Apple iPhone 8 Plus vs Google Pixel 2 XL: camera is only part of the package
unphocus said:sector7g said:Just like digital stabilization is worse than optical. The artificial blur will never be as good as real optical focus.
Here are are some advantages of digital stabilization:
1. I can use decades old manual lenses
2. In DSLR cases, I only have to pay for stabilization once—in the camera—not in every lens I buy
3. Makes my overall gear lighter
4. Six axis stabilization while optical has three
I don’t need to point out the advantages of optical since you already know that. Cheers! 😊 -
Apple TV 4K won't play 4K YouTube videos because of missing Google codec
VP9 is fraught with patent liability as Google took a lot of the inventions in the MPEG standards and reverse engineered them up into a new codec and is giving it away for free. By having zero licensing fees due to this largely stolen open standard, and constant violations of copyright in their content library, this is how YouTube (and Google in general) makes a profitable business. Costs are so low because they copy IP/ software innovations and make them free to the end user (then monetize through ads). This is not news, folks. 4k/HDR on Youtube is a bit silly, though, since the quality of the content is generally garbage as well. -
Apple invites iPhone Upgrade Program members to 'prep' for Friday's iPhone 8 pre-orders
I think demand for the iPhone 8 is going to be very soft. It's a very minor upgrade from the 7, so a lot of people with 6S or 7 will not feel compelled to upgrade, and the iPhone X will pull all of the demand from the early adopter and more affluent demographics (Apple's traditional core demographics). Apple made a pretty serious strategic error by not investing more heavily in OLED production lines and going pretty much all in with iPhone X for new models. They will not be able to come close to meeting the enormous demand for the iPhone X (even at $1000) and will have relatively overall low sell-through numbers this Christmas quarter. Revenue will be somewhat offset by the higher ASP due to iPhone X price, but will still drop to some extent. The iPhone X story will look like the AirPods story played on a larger scale: everyone loves them and it will take at least a year to catch up with demand.