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- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 day ago:
Apple was built on innovation, and you completely left the original product out.
Apple II, Macintosh, MacBook Air, iPod, iPhone, iPad. In software OSX was also significant, and obviously IOS that worked extremely well for both iPhone and iPad.
The M series of SOC are also way ahead of anything else. Retina display for iPhone was also a first. And finally the technologies Apple has used to completely switch the hardware architecture of major series of products.
First from Motorola to IBM Power, then from Power to x86, and finally from x86 to Arm. No other company has dared doing that, and when Microsoft tried to emulate it, AFTER Apple they did it way worse!There is no way you can realistically say Apple is not generally an innovative company, and that they aren’t leaders. When 5 times they’ve been leading major changes within an industry. What other company did that? There are very few companies that have brought groundbreaking disruptive new products like Apple has.
I’m saying this as one who has sworn never to buy another Apple product, because I despise the Apple closed garden mentality. So I’m definitely not a fanboy.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 day ago:
Apple rarely leads the charge.
Absolutely that is how it is now, but they did coin the format every modern smartphone uses today. And originally they were way ahead of the competition in almost every aspect. They were so dominant, that for years there was a shortage for every other manufacturer of components to build smartphones that could compete!
But a lot has happened since the still pretty recent emergence of the first iPhone, that absolutely revolutionized the concept of smartphones.
And the competition is absolutely cutthroat, so even major renowned labels couldn’t keep up.
Like Nokia, HTC, Ericsson that were all major brands, are now almost completely gone. Obviously the Blackberry RIM is almost gone too, and I think Microsoft is out completely now, despite they were a significant factor before iPhone, and investing billions in an attempt at a come back!So it is quite amazing that a statement like Apple rarely takes a lead is so easily taken as a true statement, considering how different it was just a few years ago. A testament to the absolutely crazy development cycle smartphones still have.
Apple does however still lead on the SOC by a good margin. - Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 day ago:
Apple is pioneering better SOC than anybody else.
But apart from that you are perfectly right, none of the big 3 companies are actually pioneering anything anymore.
Google never was, but leaned on 3rd parties that made some very good Nexus phones, ending with the Huawei made P6.
Now the pioneers are mostly Chinese, while Samsung seems to be falling behind.
Google Pixel was never a front runner, iPhone was traditionally in some areas mostly software, while Samsung was in both software and hardware.
If you want the coolest newest stuff, it seems China is ahead with Xiaomi, Honor, Vivo etc.
The Samsung S25 Ultra is still absolutely a great phone, and I think recognized as the leader to beat, as a well rounded high end package.Regarding camera I think it’s getting damned hard to say which is best, comparison tests with many photo’s seems to swing between one phone maker to another, and movie stabilization also vary, even with good camera.
I think Samsung is still clearly ahead of Google and Apple, and the Chinese phones too have strengths and weaknesses. I like Xiaomi a lot in their flagship killer range, but on the top tier, they still have problems with camera stabilization Samsung handles better IMO.
The thing that impresses me most, is how much phones still improve in a single generation.
Maybe not enough to ditch the old one, but definitely enough to make the new model worth considering even when you can get last years model at a pretty hefty discount. - Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 1 week ago:
I absolutely answer the questions, what’s your problem?
What part of the question is not answered in my reply?Am I not free to ad my opinion too?
- Comment on What things should I do if I spilled a small amount of scalding water from a kettle on my arm? 1 week ago:
Keep it under running water for ½ an hour, at the level that is the most comfortable.
Don’t make it too cold, but cold enough to ease the burning sensation. - Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 1 week ago:
OP wanted cheaper phones, but phones ARE getting cheaper with better features too.
- Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 1 week ago:
Well it’s not ALL progress, personally I’d like the notification LED and the mini jack back.
But overall, I think modern smartphones are amazing. - Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 1 week ago:
That would be things like not being able to replace the battery.
Fortunately EU is regulating that shit now. - Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 1 week ago:
Because the development of new Smartphone SOC has been very strong, and the new ones really are better in multiple ways. The gains are far from minimal.
Also you can get usable smartphones dirt cheap now, that are both way better and way cheaper than just a few years ago.
The reason they all make better phones is due to this thing we call competition. If all brands except one stopped making better phones, the one that continues will take marketshare from everybody else, and have by far the best profits, because the highest profits are with the high end phones. - Comment on Why do people especially men care if someone forgives a cheating partner 2 weeks ago:
Why is it rong to forgive the one you love ?
Whoever you were unfaithful with hadn’t promised your boyfriend anything, so definitely it’s irrational to blame him.
If you had agreed to be in a monogamous relationship, you broke that agreement, and for most people that’s a very serious thing.
I do not however buy into your claim that this issue is something men care about more than woman. On the contrary women are generally the ones complaining about unfaithful men, to a degree one would think that is much more common. When statistics clearly indicate that since there are more men than women, chances are that on average, women are more frequently unfaithful than men. - Comment on Why are living beings not being cooked alive constantly at the tekpersatures we are? 2 weeks ago:
No you can’t sous vide at body temperature. red meat needs 60 °C (130 to 140 °F).
Try to warm some water to 60° C and put your finger in it, and see how long you can hold it there.
Or maybe don’t because you will get burned. - Comment on How often do thieves (and identity thieves) actually get caught and served justice? Are there actual examples of law enforcement actually doing anything? (Because I think most cops are just lazy) 3 weeks ago:
Police here (Denmark) is seriously understaffed, I don’t think they do much unless they see a pattern and suspect it’s organized or a repeat offender.
But at least we can call the police without fear of getting shot when they arrive.
- Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 3 weeks ago:
OK fair enough, but that’s not what it looked like to me when I read the headline.
I don’t use anything Microsoft, and I use only very few Google things for basic functionality of my phone. - Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 3 weeks ago:
What? How was Mozilla ever in any kind of OS integrated way in bed with Google?
Google was just the default search engine in their browser. That it, and it’s dead easy to change the default search engine in Firefox.Why are you making a completely false equivalence, to make Mozilla look bad?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
AFAIK it’s not uncommon for a small upstart company for instance, to rely on friends, because friendship helps working together.
I know it can smell a bit like nepotism, and we know that’s bad.
But there are actual good reasons people prefer to work with people they know. So I think it will be just fine, as long as you are not fighting over the same girl. - Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 4 weeks ago:
If it’s only air it just gets cloudy, not discolored.
It can be disolored from iron, and that’s not a health problem AFAIK.I have never heard of anybody here in Denmark who has brown or cloudy tap water. That would simply not be considered acceptable.
Tap water here is always CRYSTAL clear, and generally higher quality than bottled water. - Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 4 weeks ago:
Sad for you, but just because you can’t taste it doesn’t change the fact that water actually has taste.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 4 weeks ago:
You are spot on. Water is absolutely not flavorless.
Fortunately I live in a place with high quality clean water, and on a warm day if I’m very thirsty, the taste of water is really really good, it clearly beats any soft drink IMO. I can even prefer it over a cold beer when I’m thirsty!
But even minor contaminants can make it taste way worse, if you live in a house with old plumbing, or if you can see buildup in the metal filter most taps have, the taste of your water is probably influenced by contamination besides Iron from the pipes. Good iron pipes are OK, but new synthetic pipes are better.If I drink a carbonized mineral water, I can also most definitely taste the carbonation.
If the water smells like rainy weather or wet skin or in some other way smells off, it is probably contaminated. However the water can have a slight metallic smell because there are actually naturally occurring minerals in the water. BUT if your water is discolored, it is definitely contaminated, and drinking it can make you sick.
Our water is pretty high on calcium, but there is for instance also a small amount of lithium. Lower calcium water taste a bit sweeter, so natural water definitely exist that is even better than our water.Remember always let the tap run for a short while before drinking from it.
If the water doesn’t taste good, it’s probably because it’s not good. - Comment on What are the key things people need to know about islam? 4 weeks ago:
Well for starters (besides every extraordinary claim is a lie), the founder was a pedophile.
- Comment on What are the key things people need to know about islam? 4 weeks ago:
Not to join.
- Comment on Received an official government letter dated nearly two months ago... 1 month ago:
‘within 10 days of receipt’?
IDK about other countries, but they NEVER do that here.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 month ago:
That’s strange, because the old pope was. I thought he was supposed to be the one defining catholicism more than anybody else.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 month ago:
only two key events of the biblical story of Jesus’s life are widely accepted as historical, based on the criterion of embarrassment, namely his baptism by John the Baptist and his crucifixion by the order of Pontius Pilate.
Except there is no historical evidence of these events.
The only evidence there is, is that John the Baptist is an actual historical figure, and there exist AFAIK a reference to Pontius Pilate, although his position is unclear. But the events are NOT documented and neither is Jesus.The historicity of Jesus is a concept driven by Christians that have undertaken the biggest accumulated search in history spanning 1800 years, to document the existence of Jesus, and they have turned op NOTHING!!! Just the Mormon church alone has spend massive amounts of resources on this for more than a century. Obviously the Catholic church is by far in the lead, since they are both the oldest and most wealthy of all.
There are at least fourteen independent sources for the historicity of Jesus from multiple authors
No there are not, not a single one is contemporary, and not a single one is first hand or even has a reliable source. This is required to be considered reliable historical evidence.
It may sound convincing on the surface, until you dig into it, and find out it’s all hear say, and it’s all created AFTER Christianity became a thing.
Also evidence for the existence of Jesus is just about the most faked historical/archeological thing there is. Because it creates fame like nothing else, and churches are willing to pay enormous sums to get their hand on it.I’m an atheist, but a historical Jesus almost certainly did exist.
You didn’t investigate enough.
This is a long piece, but it’s easier than doing the research yourself:
www.atheists.org/activism/…/did-jesus-exist/ - Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 month ago:
GandalfNo but that’s because Lord of the Rings is way more consistent than the Bible is.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 month ago:
That sounds like a cool priest, but unfortunately Catholicism is still against gay marriage, meaning they are still discriminating.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 month ago:
There is no evidence Jesus ever existed.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Everybody farts, the gasses released are a result of digestion, and even though not all foods or bacteria in the stomach are equal, they all release gas at some level, which results in occasional farts.
Eating fats and protein creates less gas than eating carbs. But it is never zero. - Comment on The number of manipulative, disinformation posts on lemmy is too damn high 1 month ago:
Maybe I’m naive, but I haven’t seen this besides from spam accounts that are generally quietly closed.
The thing to do is of course to report it when you spot it. - Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 1 month ago:
I think it’s originally because of bad programming. It’s so incredibly stupid I don’t have words.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 1 month ago:
the guidelines that NIST, Microsoft, GCHQ and a few other institutions now recommend for password security
Because they are morons that don’t understand entropy.
Requiring at least 1 number increases entropy less than simply allowing the use of numbers, and then recommending it.
But most password queries are lousy at describing what’s allowed when creating it, and they generally don’t describe it at all when you enter it for access.
The second part can be crucial for remembering exactly how the password was created, because what is now required, used to often not even be possible to use!