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Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by jauntywundrkind »

josefresco wrote: post #206
mighmi wrote: post #135

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Mint Mobile is $15/month for unlimited.

Unlimited = 40 GB then "480p speeds"

This is exactly my biggest question about every network out there. What happens after soft-cap?

> The one other thing that almost wholly shapes who I'd go with for an MVNO is what speed I get after soft cap.

This should have to be advertised alongside any deal in big bold print. It should be in the main paragraph outlining the plan in every review. But instead it's often buried somewhere in terms & service, or uses vague words like "lowered priority" (even though it just means you'll be soft capped). If it's available at all. And most reviews / descriptions of plans don't mention this. The awareness around this issue needs to be the focus of most of these plans, in my view.

Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by lockhouse »

jerrygenser wrote: post #717
s3p wrote: post #369

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Nothing. The iPhone SoC blows every android out of the water. Apple has been dominating mobile performance ever since they went to 64-bit in 2013. That's a decade of leadership in silicon. No android comes close. Not sure what OP is thinking.

I'm saying it's good enough for my use, which is watching YouTube videos, using apps, taking pictures, having a reasonable battery life, making phone calls, sending texts. It might not be the best possible soc etc. But for $349 it serves me as a daily driver for 3 years without shelling out over $1000

You don’t have to spend over $1000 for an iPhone.

Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by yellowapple »

mlinhares wrote: post #760
yellowapple wrote: post #755

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"that doesn't involve GPU" is a bit of an arbitrary restriction. GPU performance is performance, is it not?

It isn’t, I work as a developer and most developers have no use for a GPU unless you’re doing machine learning or gaming. For this case Macs are really hard to beat, especially given the UNIX like environment.

> It isn’t, I work as a developer and most developers have no use for a GPU unless you’re doing machine learning or gaming.

Okay, well

1. Not every Macbook user is a developer

2. Not every developer has no use for a GPU

If we're going to make comparisons about performance requirements for a specific subset of a specific subset of users, then let's be explicit about that. Otherwise, arbitrarily ignoring a rather substantial contributor to overall performance is indeed arbitrary.

Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by goosedragons »

Spooky23 wrote: post #705
goosedragons wrote: post #693

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There's loads of nice "build" (just admit you want metal please) Windows laptops with nice screens. Asus ZenBook line for example. Can even get OLED.

Not at the same price-point at quantity 1. If you as a consumer buy a nice HP Spectre, it will be more than an equivalent MacBook barring a sale or clearance. I buy 10,000 at a time, and get about 30% off.

https://www.microcenter.com/product/666870/asus-zenbook-15-o...

A 15" MBA with the max 24GB RAM and a 1TB drive would cost $2100. Note the Zenbook is not on sale, has a 120Hz HiDPI OLED display and aluminum chassis.

Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by vmladenov »

mrguyorama wrote: post #219
ApolloFortyNine wrote: post #11

Honestly I don't know how iPhone users live without the back button (or more accurately now, the back gesture). I used an iPhone for a year (work phone) and just could not get over how much harder it was to work a large iphone. I felt like I had to reach every corner of the screen much more often than on Android.

I don't understand how anyone is satisfied with ANY "gesture" based navigation, I still have the classic android 3 button setup from the good old days. I have a dedicated back button that is ONLY a back button, so no issue with it changing the "activity" you are working in like the modern android back gesture, a dedicated home button that always goes home, and a dedicated "bring up all alive activities" button that f…

Gestures that can start from nearly the entire left edge are more natural-feeling to me than aiming for a fixed button.

Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by TylerE »

flagrant_taco wrote: post #744
TylerE wrote: post #715

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Even in the middle of nowhere, it's basically impossible to find a 1br for under $1000/month. That's $12k/yr. At $35k/yr, you have $2500/month post tax, so at $1000 you're spending almost half your post-tax income on rent (and that's not including utilities, taxes, etc). That math doesn't work, even in cheap places.

I'm not sure where you live, but in my area you can rent a well maintained 3 bedroom home with a yard for $850-950 per month. 1 bedroom homes rent for closer to $550.

I would love to know where you live. Those are like 10 year ago prices here, and I leave in a low COL smallish down in the South.

Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by flagrant_taco »

TylerE wrote: post #766
flagrant_taco wrote: post #744

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I'm not sure where you live, but in my area you can rent a well maintained 3 bedroom home with a yard for $850-950 per month. 1 bedroom homes rent for closer to $550.

I would love to know where you live. Those are like 10 year ago prices here, and I leave in a low COL smallish down in the South.

I'm in the south too actually, about 45 minutes outside Birmingham, AL

I've seen cheaper housing in Birmingham as well, but I don't know some of those areas nearly as well and couldn't vouch for how nice or safe they actually are outside of listing photos online

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Post by HelloMcFly »

wilsonnb3 wrote: post #332
HelloMcFly wrote: post #197

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> Which bloatware and what problems does it make you? Just about every single pre-installed app? Their store, their browser, Bixby, Bixby vision, messaging, their car mode, their friends, Galaxy smartwatch BS, SmartThings, their weather app. It's all - to an app - worse than the alternatives, and worse than Google's defaults if that's your preference.

> Just about every single pre-installed app? You can disable any app aside from the Galaxy Store, I believe. Takes like 5 minutes to do them all if you are a die hard Samsung hater. > Their store, their browser, Bixby, Bixby vision, messaging, their car mode, their friends, Galaxy smartwatch BS, SmartThings, their weather app. It's all - to an app - worse than the alternatives, and worse than Google's defaults if tha…

> They don't have their own car mode or messaging, they use Android Auto and Google Messages.

As of late 2021 when I got my last Samsung this was not the case for the default messaging app. I thought driving mode (not Android Auto alternative) was different too but I do feel less confident about that.

Re: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

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Post by boulos »

kaba0 wrote: post #677
boulos wrote: post #627

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The majority of the EU population can buy it directly... https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-7-availability... says: > The full list of countries includes the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, and India. I get that plenty of countries don't have official Google Store support, but it's a bit like saying there isn…

Free to do so? Yes. Is it a giant pain in the ass? Also yes. Especially with regards to warranty. it’s funny that cheap noname Chinese phones have no problems with selling it directly in every EU country.

Do you have a more specific example? Xiaomi's site, Mi.com, for instance doesn't seem to cover every EU or European country (e.g., Bulgaria, Croatia, Norway, Switzerland, etc.). Are you referring to OPPO or OnePlus as a "cheap no name Chinese phone"? They account for about 10% of the global sales (as does Xiaomi).

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Post by TheHappyOddish »

cultofmetatron wrote: post #750
mlinhares wrote: post #649

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People just like to think they're special "thinking out of the box" rebels because they use android when the equivalent android phone costs the same as an iphone. There's very little price difference between the models for the main brands (you can off course find cheaper alternatives with their own issues) but if you get an iphone and a samsung side by side odds are they're at the same price range. And as a professio…

> I doubt many people in developed countries care that much about the fact that you use an apple device or not Girls absolutely covet iphones like sacred cows. some go as far as to not date guys who use android. its weird but I've seen it myself.

From my world experience, this is a pure Americanism. And Americans broadly seem to care a more about status than the other 95% of the worlds population.
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