sacto joe

philboogie said:

randominternetperson said:

I say this when Apple does it, and I'll say it now:  going from learning of a hardware defect to releasing a fix in 2 weeks is pretty darn impressive.  

Having said that, this defect is more ridiculous that any Apple bug/oversight than I can think of.  

Surely you haven't forgotten the "macOS bug lets you log in as admin with no password required". And their follow-up screw-up by not fixing it with their patch.

If one were to weight a smartphone fingerprint issue vs a root password, I'd say Samsung's bug is less severe.

sflocal said:

blastdoor said:

Kopfschmerzen said:

Still not sure why others can’t achieve what Apple can in chip design. And, while every editorial praises Apple’s approach (concentrating on premium devices only), there must be companies making cheap devices. There’s nothing wrong with being a cheap device producer. You obviously can’t make more money from cheap devices as they priced less than Apple’s margin on iPhones.

Great question.

i wonder if it just isn’t worth it. Compare a pixel 4 or top Galaxy to the iPhone and it’s hard to see how the iPhone benefits from its better CPU by a margin that is large enough to warrant competitors making an investment large enough to compete. If Apple were taking serious market share from android then maybe the droid guys would try harder. But Apple has been in the 15 to 20 percent market share range for a long time.

i think an even better question is — why does Apple bother making a cpu this good? I suspect the answer is that Apple also sells something called an iPad Pro, and they want the cpu speed for that product. Maybe also the Mac?

if Apple didn’t sell iPads, I wonder if they’d invest less in cpu development...

I get that, but why is market share important when the things that Apple is doing allows it to receive almost all the mobile profits in the industry?  That for sure tells us that Apple's investment in its own CPU path is paying off.

CloudTalkin said:

sacto joe said:

CloudTalkin said:

9secondkox2 said:

CloudTalkin said:

This editorial is definitely not your best effort William.  Doesn't seem like a Gallagher piece.  It reads like a DED editorial except it's way, way, waaaaaaaaaaay too short to be from DED.  It's nothing more than tropes strung together to support a tenuous narrative. 

Apart from ATV+ you can't think of anything Samsung hasn't copied from Apple? 

If true, you aren't thinking very hard.  They absolutely copied Apple on early iPhones and iPads.  Watch? Nope.  AirPods? Nope.  Modern phones and iPads? Nope.  To base your editorial on Samsung's reliance on past copying is about as relevant as someone writing an editorial in 2019 based on Antennae-gate iPhone 4.

Apple may no longer quote iPhone sales figures, and Samsung always optimistically reports numbers of phones made rather than actually sold. 

You gotta source for that little nugget?  Afaik, Samsung never reported their numbers and both companies record their sales in almost the exact same way.  Shipped.

I seriously doubt Samsung would introduce a streaming service.  They have no reason to do so.  You're right that they have the same large audience that Apple does.  Though they don't have the same need for services that Apple does.  Samsung is a conglomerate with multiple parts.  They rely on different parts at different times to support the whole.  Sometimes phones floats the boat.  Sometimes it chips.  Sometimes it's the S. Korean government easing punishment on Samsung execs.  Besides, Samsung is terrible at services and their management seems to know it.  They're a better facilitator. Get all those services on their TV's seems to be a more rational goal for Samsung.

It would be really surprising if Samsung debuted a streaming service.  On the outside chance they did, I'd bet it would be a local streaming service where they wouldn't be bidding against established players for expensive content.

Bruh. Sam absolutely copied Apple on tablets (the same as the phones) and the watch. Samsung knee Apple was developing the watch for years. They barely beat Apple to the market with on ok product. Then Apple released theirs and Samsung altered time fit the Apple model. 

Music? Check. 

Wireless earphones? Check. You really need to do some research. 

Samsung uses Apple as their R&D dept. it’s dark comedy. 

Samsung tried to do something on their own with the Fold. It sucks. 

I doubt they keep pushing it. Probably go the Microsoft route in the future. 

Samsung makes some of the best TVs and some nice washers, dryers, and refrigerators. 

All of their CE devices are straight up ripoffs of Apple. In fact, they full on shamlelessly apes the look and software experience until they were found guilty. 

They don’t even have their own roadmap. It’s based on apples. Their game is to learn what Apple is doing, and try to get to market doing the same thing but get their first. Corporate espionage is not new for them. Straight up plagiarism is not new. 

And the times they didn’t know enough of what Apple was doing, so their product stank, they just waited for Apple to reveal their hand and then came out with an update or new revision. 

Samsung is a copy machine. It’s just how it is. 

I need to do some research?  Tee hee.  Pots and kettles come to mind.  Bud, history backs my claims.  There's nothing I claimed that can't be backed with actual facts.  You on the other hand?  I seriously doubt you could produce a single fact to support your assertions about the watch and headphones.  Let me save you some time.  There are no facts that support your assertions.  By the time the Apple watch was released in 2015, Samsung was already on their 4th watch model.  The Gear Icon X (now Galaxy Buds) were released before the AirPods and have had the same design language throughout.  Never remotely resembled AirPods.  

Like I said, the copied Apple design language early on.  The last Galaxy phone to even partially look like an iPhone was the S2 (it really didn't look like an iPhone, there was UI copying).  To be fair, every tablet is going to resemble the iPad since the general shape of tablets has never changed.  But even in AI comparison of the iPad Pro and Tab 6, you can see the difference between the two designs - front and back.

The actual fact is that Apple had a wristwatch computer long before Samsung.

https://www.cultofmac.com/57492/new-ipod-nano-more-than-just-a-pretty-wristwatch/

The actual actual fact is that Samsung had a wristwatch-computer-phone/w even rudimentary voice control... more than a decade before the ipod nano.  Say hello to the Samsung SPH-WP10.  Now I don't list this as a these guys did it first flag in the sand (they didn't do it first).  That's an activity for fanboy idiots.  I list it as more evidence to back my claim that Samsung's watch efforts predate the Apple watch.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=NmKDn356Etk

CloudTalkin said:

9secondkox2 said:

CloudTalkin said:

This editorial is definitely not your best effort William.  Doesn't seem like a Gallagher piece.  It reads like a DED editorial except it's way, way, waaaaaaaaaaay too short to be from DED.  It's nothing more than tropes strung together to support a tenuous narrative. 

Apart from ATV+ you can't think of anything Samsung hasn't copied from Apple? 

If true, you aren't thinking very hard.  They absolutely copied Apple on early iPhones and iPads.  Watch? Nope.  AirPods? Nope.  Modern phones and iPads? Nope.  To base your editorial on Samsung's reliance on past copying is about as relevant as someone writing an editorial in 2019 based on Antennae-gate iPhone 4.

Apple may no longer quote iPhone sales figures, and Samsung always optimistically reports numbers of phones made rather than actually sold. 

You gotta source for that little nugget?  Afaik, Samsung never reported their numbers and both companies record their sales in almost the exact same way.  Shipped.

I seriously doubt Samsung would introduce a streaming service.  They have no reason to do so.  You're right that they have the same large audience that Apple does.  Though they don't have the same need for services that Apple does.  Samsung is a conglomerate with multiple parts.  They rely on different parts at different times to support the whole.  Sometimes phones floats the boat.  Sometimes it chips.  Sometimes it's the S. Korean government easing punishment on Samsung execs.  Besides, Samsung is terrible at services and their management seems to know it.  They're a better facilitator. Get all those services on their TV's seems to be a more rational goal for Samsung.

It would be really surprising if Samsung debuted a streaming service.  On the outside chance they did, I'd bet it would be a local streaming service where they wouldn't be bidding against established players for expensive content.

Bruh. Sam absolutely copied Apple on tablets (the same as the phones) and the watch. Samsung knee Apple was developing the watch for years. They barely beat Apple to the market with on ok product. Then Apple released theirs and Samsung altered time fit the Apple model. 

Music? Check. 

Wireless earphones? Check. You really need to do some research. 

Samsung uses Apple as their R&D dept. it’s dark comedy. 

Samsung tried to do something on their own with the Fold. It sucks. 

I doubt they keep pushing it. Probably go the Microsoft route in the future. 

Samsung makes some of the best TVs and some nice washers, dryers, and refrigerators. 

All of their CE devices are straight up ripoffs of Apple. In fact, they full on shamlelessly apes the look and software experience until they were found guilty. 

They don’t even have their own roadmap. It’s based on apples. Their game is to learn what Apple is doing, and try to get to market doing the same thing but get their first. Corporate espionage is not new for them. Straight up plagiarism is not new. 

And the times they didn’t know enough of what Apple was doing, so their product stank, they just waited for Apple to reveal their hand and then came out with an update or new revision. 

Samsung is a copy machine. It’s just how it is. 

I need to do some research?  Tee hee.  Pots and kettles come to mind.  Bud, history backs my claims.  There's nothing I claimed that can't be backed with actual facts.  You on the other hand?  I seriously doubt you could produce a single fact to support your assertions about the watch and headphones.  Let me save you some time.  There are no facts that support your assertions.  By the time the Apple watch was released in 2015, Samsung was already on their 4th watch model.  The Gear Icon X (now Galaxy Buds) were released before the AirPods and have had the same design language throughout.  Never remotely resembled AirPods.  

Like I said, the copied Apple design language early on.  The last Galaxy phone to even partially look like an iPhone was the S2 (it really didn't look like an iPhone, there was UI copying).  To be fair, every tablet is going to resemble the iPad since the general shape of tablets has never changed.  But even in AI comparison of the iPad Pro and Tab 6, you can see the difference between the two designs - front and back.

mobird said:

fastasleep said:

AppleInsider said:

So start your stopwatch. Apple's longtime rival Samsung is surely coming to a screen near you, and soon.

[ ... ]

There have been no leaks of deals with producers. No sign, yet, of Samsung buying up a library of existing shows.

Huh. /headscratch

If it's not true that everybody has an iPhone or an Android smartphone, it is true that everybody advertisers want to reach does.
Then if the incredible rise of smartphones is one factor that has persuaded Apple to go into television, the subsequent decline has become another.

Decline? Of smartphones? Hmm...

Right now it's still the case that having your show watchable on an iPhone is a benefit for your show. It's ultimately going to be that doing the same thing is really a benefit to iPhone sales.

... what?

Maybe it is time to shelve the "Editorials" for a little bit.

Almost as coherent as words from a recent debate...

"Why should someone who's clipping coupons in the stock market may, in fact, pay a lower tax rate than someone who in fact is, like I said, a schoolteacher and a fireman? It's ridiculous," Biden said."