It sucks that Samsung doesn't have a 7 inch Galaxy S10 Tablet. I would buy that, and I own a tab S9 Ultra. Samsung, make a 7 inch tablet with a Qualcomm chip and AMOLED screen please! I'll take even an 8 inch screen.
Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence
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I’m forever triggering the camera app, while locking the device, on my iPhone 15 pro max. Every day, regularly.
How is that possible? The camera icon is in the bottom left corner of the screen and you use the physical lock button on the side to lock the iPhone.
If you reach for the top left corner your thumb will naturally come into contact with the bottom right corner of the screen, assuming you are holding the device one-handed (in your right hand).
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Bezels are useful for devices that you can’t just hold in the flat of your hand. Provides a place to hold on to. Also, this is an LCD screen. The substrate is rigid. An OLED, like on the iPhone is on a flexible substrate and can be bent at the edges to connect to the circuit board. That lets you put the screen closer to the edge.
I have had phones and tablets with IPS displays with way thinner bezels so that argument is void.
Only on 3 sides I think though? You still need an edge connector on one side (i think)
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Well, the phone’s software works great. They just haven’t released those new AI features - which are supposed to come out on some older devices as well. And it’s hardly the first time Apple delayed a release. IMO, the only thing weird here is the way the iPhone 16 demo day kept talking about these unreleased features front and center instead of the actual capabilities of the new phone. Probably that’s because the pho…
Can you name another time the software team has lagged so far behind the hardware release and marketing? Nearly every ad I’ve seen the world over has touted “Apple Intelligence” as if it’s a thing that exits, not some Coming Soon^{TM} pipe dream. My money is on it being a massive failure if it ever does come out, the only thing stopping me from buying options is I don’t have a clue as to the timeline for when they’ll…
Seems like a page from the Tesla playbook. Musk kept promising customers that if they buy a Tesla _now_, they will have full self driving and can make money having it go to work as a robotaxi Next Year (TM). Without these promises, a Tesla would just be another car.
Not quite the same Ponzi scheme, but they promise a device "built for AI", so that when those features are ready, you'll get them. Without these promises, the thing would just be another tablet.
Do they have to necessarily keep that promise? Musk seems to be doing fine without. What's the alternative, holding firm against the hype? Not sure that'd do wonders for their stock price. Maybe Jobs' Apple would have done that. But I suppose the current Apple doesn't see much choice around riding hype cycles.
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I have had phones and tablets with IPS displays with way thinner bezels so that argument is void.
Only on 3 sides I think though? You still need an edge connector on one side (i think)
Yeah, but even on the "thicker" side they're stil way thinner than the current iPad Minis.
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#406It is interesting that one of their examples is a "community repair fair", they want to market a sheen of social responsibility without actually taking part themselves.
I spotted that too, I got a laugh out of it. Committed non-commitment.
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#407Selling machine learning stuff as "intelligence" raises false expectations and is ultimately fraud. I can't wait for this whole overblown hype to crash and burn.
And the "magic mouse" is actually just powered by electricity.
"Intelligence", like magic, has vague and diffuse enough meaning that there's basically no chance of it being actual fraud.
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#408Selling machine learning stuff as "intelligence" raises false expectations and is ultimately fraud. I can't wait for this whole overblown hype to crash and burn.
Apple will make smart light bulb and sell it as a revolutionary intelligent light control system. If it weren't for their brand reputation, they'd look like one of the worst scam companies in tech, right down to the spelling mistakes in their descriptions (for some reason they don't like to use definite or indefinite articles for their products which always make their marketing seem like a bad machine translation to me).
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And pay for a screen size I won't use? No, thanks.
Could be dynamic, example, watching a movie, no bezels. Remove the bezels from the top and/or bottom, that changes on the device orientation. Placed in a stand remove the bezels, add them back when picked up.
So what mechanism would you suggest to reliably detect when I want to pick it up so it adds the bezels before I'm able to cause any accidental input?
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What other large brand has a simpler lineup? Samsung released 22 phones just in 2024 with memorable names like C55 and M05. Although I wouldn't mind if they got rid of one or two iPhone variants, or at least gave them more meaningful names. I have no idea what the difference between Plus, Pro and Max is. I only know that Pro doesn't mean pro, and that doesn't make it any easier. Edit: also Steve Jobs was still alive…
Google Pixel has one Tablet.
Within the first year of release there was also just one iPhone and one iPad.
Meanwhile there are 4 variants of the Pixel 9. So clearly Google shows the same trend over time.