ahh the notch sensitive cohort.. i never understood the massive focus on removing the notch on smartphones.. it's of trivial significance to millions of ppl I would assume
I prefer a hole-punch camera, for the most part. Or hell, even that weird "reverse notch" thing Lenovo has been toying with where there's a small tab at the top of the display to accommodate a bigger webcam. In any case, I'd like to believe we can live in a world where the most well-funded designers and engineers could find us a way to have our 16:10 notchless cake and eat it, too.
No, 3:2. It's the best ratio for all sorts of scenarios - infinitely better thsn 16:9 and significantly better than 16:10. The Microsoft Surface devices and the Google Pixelbook also feature 3:2 screens.
4:3 laptops become too bulky and too deep. Don't get me wrong, I loved my ancient 1600x1200 Lenovo T60p, but it was a beast to carry around and required tons of lap/table space. 3:2 fits significantly better in a bag/backpack and significantly better on a desk or airline seat back. 3:2 gives significantly more visible space than 16:9 or 16:10 while still being trivial to move my fingers up and tap on something on the screen (unlike 4:3).
Furthermore, 3:2 screens are available at proper useful screen densities. 1080p is too coarse even at 13" (and unusable at 15") while 4k is so dense as to be a waste at anything below 17". 1440p is quite rare. 3:2 screens, on the other hand, come in at usable sizes like 2256x1504 (Framework), 2496x1664 (Surface Laptop 3 15"), and so on - enough DPI to give you beautiful crisp fonts without requiring you to keep shoveling lumps of coal at your GPU to drive your desktop.
Apple's service network, via physical stores can not be beat!
I had an issue with my Samsung smart phone at one point. However, I couldn't part with the phone for x number of weeks, to send it in, for an assessment.
After that, I realized ease of support on iPhone was the biggest differentiator between Apple and other brands
rasppi is a niche product. There will never be mass consumer appeal. Just like how you don't see advertisement for Ergodox keyboards. Even if they spent money on ad campaign, it will likely not move the revenue needle
I think it's relatively uncontroversial that advertising is a "strategy" for either low quality, not needed, or undifferentiated offerings, and that when looking at how a company goes to market, there is a choice of putting $ into advertising or into a better product.
I generally use advertising as a proxy for inverse utility. It would definitely be better to have more products that targeted being good, as opposed to ones that target influencing people to buy them.
>I think it's relatively uncontroversial that advertising is a "strategy" for either low quality, not needed, or undifferentiated offerings, and that when looking at how a company goes to market, there is a choice of putting $ into advertising or into a better product.
You mean like iPhones? Because Apple certainly advertises.
I'm not sure your statement applies broadly to automobile advertising either.
Why? Can you explain that thought process? i.e. everything should be niche? Like toothpaste for devops engineers who want their teeth to grow in the dark when they are around 2 or more wifi networks?
My thought process is that I personally would like to see more products with a higher focus on being good for a smaller group of people, rather than cheaper and /or worse but aimed at a huge audience. [0]
Focusing on delivering a good product to a smaller audience allows you to have tighter feedback loops and create more useful iterations because of that. You can also usually charge more. Personally, there are a lot of product spaces that I currently prefer or would prefer spending more for higher quality. But I don't always get that option due to the obsession with casting a wide net, as it were.
Do I expect this to happen organically? No, market forces seem to heavily incentivize races to the bottom.
[0]: NB my use of relative statements and not absolutes. Going from one extreme to the other likely won't produce a net positive.
Funnily enough I purchased an Ergodox EZ after clicking through an ad for it.
I actually see this a lot with "niche" products (audio equipment, home automation, keyboards, etc) where I will have never seen an ad for anything in that product category but once I start going to the hobbyist and store pages for such products I get inundated with ads for one specific offering in that category for a week or two before all of my ads go back to what the usually are.
The Pi is a hobbyist device, so yeah. But something like the Ergodox could definitely become popular if video game streamers used it, if there were displays in computer stores, etc. It's an interesting product but many people (like me) simply haven't heard of it.
Granted, I bought one and have put another in the shopping cart multiple times, so they probably have good reason to advertise to me. They know I'm a paying customer who's flirting with paying more.
For the record, GP edited their original comment without acknowledging it. Originally said something like "You're an idiot if you think Raspberry Pi is a niche product". I only point it out as it is very unfair to ninja edit after you already have a reply.
So sick of people on this site being dismissive of anything that couldn't become "amazon scale" when they often have no idea what the actual market conditions are for said thing, as demonstrated by their comments and general attitude. The aloofness should go in the opposite direction, if anything.
It's just a pretty skin on top of the same Windows NT Window chrome. The modern UI skin is baked in with a bunch of none-sensical UX decisions.
I also hate how Windows' happy-path setup, does not encourage use to create and operate with a low privileged local account. Instead, if you click through the setup process, you end up running the OS w/ an admin level account.
Isn't that how most operating systems are? macOS and most Linux distros direct the user to creating and living in an "Administrator" account, but require confirmation from the user (or extra steps) whenever invoking the privileges that comes with.
It was image compression. You "reduce" the file size of the images by using an algorithmic approach to reduce the color palette, while achieving as much as the OG image quality as possible.
