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While the article is written as a rant, which hurts the author's credibility, the points, IMO, are valid.

Did you actually try doing the math? $11 billion divided over 650k employees is roughly $17k which amounts to $75 per day assuming the employee works around 225 days a year which i…

> On an unrelated note, I am pretty upset that my Samsung ~$1200 TV has ads built into it. On a lighter note, don’t TVs have ads anyway?

I was burnt by a third party application using mmap over NFS recently. Definitely not fun by any definition of it. And it gets a SIGSEGV and segfaults.

> Those services being tied RIGHT INTO the OS is a huge advantage. That is a disadvantage to me. I prefer not to keep all my eggs in one basket.

Sorry, reading on a phone. Really didn’t see the responses before responding. It was not my intention to pile on.

Maybe that will kill the trend? I certainly hope so! :-)

You might want to check the reason for the limitation before making such comments. A display can be stretched to the three edges of the phone —- it is the fourth edge that is the p…

Xiaomi got rid of the forehead entirely by moving everything to the (relatively small) chin on Mi Mix 2. While that is not great for the front facing camera usage since many (most?…

Hedging their bets? Since iPhone XS devices are are a rather large risk and they need something to fall back on in case they don’t do well. If they do, we may not see a successor. …

No, you can’t. It doesn’t have Widevine L1. https://m.gsmarena.com/the_pocophone_f1_cant_stream_hd_video...

> The phones work fine out of the box. Do they? Is there a one touch full device backup solution for Android that doesn’t involve rooting the phone or flashing custom ROM? Is there…

It does — the Pixel 2 XL screen that is. The Samsung manufactured Pixel 2 screen, on the other hand, is pretty good.

You are not the only one.

Can the $320 Pocofone F1 let me watch Netflix in HD? I consider that to be an everyday task.

That is perfectly fine. It always boils down to what you prefer and what fits your workflow. I have no problem with Android in general. It is the grandstanding claims like Androids…

Maybe, but the iPhone camera has never lagged terribly behind the top of the line Androids. But the same time, the so called “top of the line” Androids had other compromises that i…

> Android phones have better cameras and match apple in most other hardware metrics I am sure there is an Android phone out there which has got a better camera, another one that ha…

> if you know what you're doing That is the key difference. What if I don’t want to be the sysadmin for my phone? What if I don’t want to root my phone? What if I prefer things to …

Because financial sector is run be people who consider engineers a liability[1]. Instead of evolving with time in 80s and 90s as the world moved to modern systems, they clung to th…

And in some cases, the source code is lost.

All Android phones (with notches) have notches in addition to an ugly chin. The lack of other bezels is what made the notch on iPhone X acceptable (to me, at least). The thought of…

What version of Android is it running? You probably mean the apps from the Play Store keep getting upgrades. I know for a fact that Samsung tablets from 2013 are not getting new An…

Well, there are alternatives like TripCase, Kayak and many others. TripIt just happens to be the one I’ve used for actual trips.