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| pcprogrammer:
Ah yes, you are on the pro team in this particular case, but when you examine that thread, you would see that the quotes I gave were not in direct relation to Nominal Animal his statements. It started with a different quote from someone else --- Quote ---Look on the bright side. If it wasn't for idiots, there'd be no merit in competence. --- End quote --- Which was interpreted as "Oh look he says that my "guru" is an idiot", and yes that can be implied, but is not what is written. Furthermore it was then a reaction onto what I wrote in reply to one of the quotes, which was misread as being "gossip" and "bashing" the person in question of whom I know nothing about. But read it properly and you would see there is nothing of the kind. And why the need to defend someone who you most likely also do not know, while the person in question is putting himself in a position to be criticized. That is the risk of being present on the internet. Then you can of course also ask, why the need to criticize, I would say somewhat a matter of principle. And to me that is all ok, but try to refrain from calling others names, while accusing them of name calling. Should be simple enough. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: james_s on September 24, 2022, 06:44:50 am --- Even still the trackpads on Apple laptops while comically huge, work much better than any other that I've used. I don't know if it's hardware or software that holds the secret sauce but they got it dialed in just right. --- End quote --- I’ve said the same thing for years: Apple gets trackpads right. (And has from the start: even in the first PowerBooks with them, they worked well.) I’m pretty sure it’s in the software, because when dual-booting Windows on an Intel Mac, the trackpads don’t work nearly as well as under Mac OS X. (Caveat: I haven’t run Windows on any Intel Mac newer than ~2012. If they’ve improved the trackpad drivers, great!) Until I actually used a (standard) trackpad on a Windows laptop, I never understood why so many people hated them and always toted a mouse with them. Once I did… ok, yep, got it! I don’t understand how they managed to make them simultaneously too sensitive and not sensitive enough, but they did. Now, many modern ones (with the multitouch called “Windows Precision Touchpad” support) are far, far better. Not quite as good as Apple’s, but eminently usable. The one in my HP Envy x360 is pretty good. But I tried buying an external Windows Precision compatible trackpad to use at work, and it’s not as nice. So to expand on where the secret sauce is: much is in the software. But all the same, the hardware has to be right (including the device manufacturer properly tuning the trackpad sensing hardware’s settings for the trackpad surface used). The external one, I suspect, is not properly tuned. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on September 24, 2022, 06:07:57 am ---Because the latest iPhone may be a couple of times faster or have more memory then a simple Alcatel one, it is not near as much as the price ratio. --- End quote --- Well, the price premium depends on the country. In some countries, Apple products cost _way_ more than e.g. Samsung. But in others, they’re practically the same. But even if there’s a significant price premium, it can be worth it if you are the kind of person who likes to buy a phone and use it for many years: Apple’s OS support for older phones is second to none. iPhones generally get 5 years of OS updates, and for many years now, without any performance penalty. Android phones rarely get more than 2 years or so. So if you use your phone for 3-5 years, even paying 50% more for the iPhone actually makes it cheaper in the long run. (And for the first 1-2 years of use, you’ve got a phone with a faster SoC than any Android phone in existence.) If you’re the kind of person who upgrades every year, then the purchase price alone is a much larger factor. --- Quote from: pcprogrammer on September 24, 2022, 06:07:57 am ---But people stand in line for them when the latest is to be released :palm: --- End quote --- When did you last see that happen in any significant amount? The lines have largely, quietly disappeared, as Apple expanded online preordering (with delivery on launch day), as well as allowing online iPhone reservations. (Both of which they did before COVID, for context.) The lines, while sorta cool as marketing, are a logistical nightmare for the stores, and annoying for most customers. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: tooki on September 24, 2022, 12:21:12 pm ---But even if there’s a significant price premium, it can be worth it if you are the kind of person who likes to buy a phone and use it for many years: Apple’s OS support for older phones is second to none. iPhones generally get 5 years of OS updates, and for many years now, without any performance penalty. Android phones rarely get more than 2 years or so. So if you use your phone for 3-5 years, even paying 50% more for the iPhone actually makes it cheaper in the long run. (And for the first 1-2 years of use, you’ve got a phone with a faster SoC than any Android phone in existence.) --- End quote --- I actually wish they would stop updating them as aggressively, my experience has been that they go one upgrade past where they really should have stopped and then performance starts to suck. I also really wish it were possible to roll back, and to tell it to quit bugging me about an update. The vast majority of the time I've owned both iPhones I've had, they have had a permanent red badge on the settings app nagging me of an iOS update. Older versions were worse in that they'd download the gigabyte+ OS update file repeatedly without consent after I'd delete it to free space. I wish the app update pace would slow down too, so many times now I've had apps get ruined by updates that made them worse than they used to be. This culture of easy and rapid updates leads to pointless tinkering. It's easier to implement the latest fads than it is to fix actual bugs. I've been burned a couple of times too by app updates that introduced showstopper bugs which I then had to wait a month or more for a fix because it's impossible to roll back. Generally speaking, I want to buy a device, set it up just the way I want it and then use it for several years without anything changing. I don't want new features, I especially don't want UI changes, I just want my tool to work. |
| Seekonk:
Many, many years ago at an employment interview I was asked if I understood Windows. I responded that Bill Gates didn't understand Windows. I didn't get the job, but still believe I gave the correct answer. |
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