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I've flown 25k miles in the last three weeks across 5 countries. Every airline mentioned this. American, Japan Airlines, Dragonair, Cathay Pacific, Etihad, JetBlue and Southwest.
Do you mind if I inquire what your career is? I would love a technology-related job that allows me to travel like that.
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And the event taking place on an airplane is close enough to the nightmare scenario of catching fire during a flight that it will be firmly placed into the public consciousness.
I flew Emirates last week, and the preflight announcement about electronic devices said use of all devices was ok, except Galaxy Note 7 which need to stay turned off during the whole flight. I can't imagine much worse PR, when yoir products are routinely called out by neutral third parties for being an actual hazard source.
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Theres a bigger difference than you think. I have here a Sony Xperia E1 and a Motorola Moto G (2nd gen) The Xperia is also $59 and Sony is a more widely known brand so let's assume they're similar. The Moto G was $179 new some years ago the Xperia is $59 today. On paper, they're similar in terms of ram, cpu cores, flash, gpu, etc. But in practice... there is an absolute world of difference, and we're not talking flag…
Why would you imagine that Blu is worse? Especially on the low end, a lot of the older brands can and do trade heavily on their established name and reputation to sell utter crap. There's little downside to this - as you demonstrated, if someone buys their stuff and it turns out to be a piece of shit they'll often just assume that everything else must be even worse. From the specs I can find, the R1 HD has a 5-inch 7…
The few weeks using the Blu went a lot differently than I expected. The phone is very solid and the overall experience of using the phone is first-rate.
It would be one thing if we were talking about a $599 Android phone compared with a $749 iPhone. But this thing cost me $59 which is in a totally different ballpark. I would simply not have expected it to be anywhere close to iPhone quality but it is.
The only things that are "worse" than an iPhone 6 in my opinion are:
- the touch screen is slightly less accurate for taps, but this could also be because I'm less accustomed to Android.
- No compass. GPS works fine but panning the phone around doesn't re-orient the map when navigating which is a feature I like.
There are also several nice features which it has that the iPhones lack, such as support for SD card storage expansion (I immediately added a fast 64GB one I had lying around) and a second SIM card.
Not trying to nitpick features. Buying a R1-HD is like getting a one year old Ferrari for $12K.
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I'd say that's beneath Apple. They usually don't attack competitors directly (used to WAY back, but now now). At least I really hope it is. Twisting the knife at something like this would be a pretty horrible thing to do.
Didn't they do the whole Mac vs. PC campaign a few years ago? Sure, they didn't point out a specific brand, but on more than one occasion it seemed very obvious what product/company they had in mind.
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I've flown 25k miles in the last three weeks across 5 countries. Every airline mentioned this. American, Japan Airlines, Dragonair, Cathay Pacific, Etihad, JetBlue and Southwest.
It’s the same thing in Europe, Lufthansa, Easyjet, …
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I'm sure they'd rather you lose your car than their entire data center
The entire datacenter from one 3500mAh 5V battery? That sounds like a book rather than real life. There's a reason people charging quadcopter's lipo batteries are told to watch them while charging, not abandon them.
At best you've then got a >$10k invoice to refill and reset the system. More likely you've got damage to servers, people and/or the building as well as massive amounts of disruption to deal with.
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I can't speak for the Galaxy Note, but when I replaced the battery on my iPhone, it took me perhaps twenty minutes with minimal tools (screwdrivers, suction cup, plastic "spudger" -- all supplied with the battery) and no prior experience. Could probably do it in half the time with practice.
When I took out my Samsung Note 2 battery it took me perhaps ten seconds with no practice either. Twenty minutes for replacing a component they know is going to wear out the quickest of all components is long and a dick move by the company.
Twenty minutes of work over four years is not a big deal.
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Why would you imagine that Blu is worse? Especially on the low end, a lot of the older brands can and do trade heavily on their established name and reputation to sell utter crap. There's little downside to this - as you demonstrated, if someone buys their stuff and it turns out to be a piece of shit they'll often just assume that everything else must be even worse. From the specs I can find, the R1 HD has a 5-inch 7…
I agree with this. I bought a Blu R1-HD when my iPhone 6 screen cracked, and decided to wait a few weeks so I could just replace it with an iPhone 7. The few weeks using the Blu went a lot differently than I expected. The phone is very solid and the overall experience of using the phone is first-rate. It would be one thing if we were talking about a $599 Android phone compared with a $749 iPhone. But this thing cost…
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Didn't they do the whole Mac vs. PC campaign a few years ago? Sure, they didn't point out a specific brand, but on more than one occasion it seemed very obvious what product/company they had in mind.
That was when they were the plucky underdog, like with IBM before that. They certainly aren't (and wouldn't accept opinions to the contrary) an underdog to Samsung.