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I'll grant it's better than 1030 4GB.  
 
 

Yeah, I can see where the designers went for internships.

1990 Thinkpad

 
2018 Thinkpad

If i ever go to NA, burner phone it is.... At least the Chinese are polite enough to hack into the phone remotly, without asking or taking it away

i want die
 
Seriously, this is only encouraging them
 
Stahp

I don't remember anyone doing that in the whole of PC market. 
 
We agree to disagree, or agree on some fronts and all of that is ok. Mind you I haven't even started on their security issues that I have seen for myself (I have had an Epic account for 6, 7 years now? Can't remember), missing features and all but those are things that can be improved over time, no one started with all features from the start and EGS is apparently developing many of them. Except a forum which is a huge missing feature which they won't have. But current problem is security and Epic do something on that ffs. 

Don't see how this is any different in the gaming market as a whole.
 
As a customer that is your right but some people I dare say are going over the top.
 
Yeah that's why I said earlier people who really want it that badly will buy it from whoever gets it first and the others will just wait til it gets to their respective platform. The exception being EA's stupid staggered launches for BF5 and other titles

Devs can be publishers, but the general terms is publishers because even if they are the same or a different company, publishers are always listed separately from developers because they, well device where to publish the game. Just so you know.
But I am not here to argue semantics.
 
Oh right the good old free "Will you move to our platform if we pay you few million $?". 
 
You can decide who to blame and so did I. I have decided not to apologise the makers of the system as well as those who get in the system. They are doing "what business do and offer incentive" and you are absolutely correct. But I am gonna call them out on a completely rotten business practice if I think it is a completely rotten business practice which it is. I never said Epic doesn't have the right to do that, they have every right, but by doing so they are doing what no one else does on the whole of PC market and are undermining what the PC market stands for.
And before anyone starts "But Bnet, Origin and others do it!", no, they don't. They developed their own platform so they can take the cut, and some still publish some if not all games on other platforms, but some don't, Epic is legitimately paying others to not publish anywhere else for the time being. 

To be honest, whilst I feel that a bit of that outrage might be a bit excessive, I also feel that consumers have the right to show their dissent. Does that means Epic Games will give a shit? I highly doubt so, mainly because despite the seemingly large outrage, it seems that their exclusivity deals are working (or at least not failed spectacularly). So unless Epic Games suffers a significant blowback, they're going to keep doing so, whether we like it or not.
 
It's a shitty situation for the consumer's end, but it doesn't necessarily mean we are totally out of options, even though said options are comparatively utter shite compared to the ideal ones. It basically boils down to buying the game at launch off EGS if you really want it, and potentially support a practice that some consider a cancer to PC gaming, or wait 6-12 months for a release on other platforms, and get it off there. None are ideal, but I would personally pick the latter, mainly because EGS hasn't done enough on the consumer-end for me to warrant a consideration and it also has a hidden benefit of having many of the typical early bugs and such being mostly resolved.
 
Personally, I'm still waiting for the day where someone lights a match under Valve's asses while they're farting so that they can actually go back and do the things that they used to be good at, such as making wonderful games that ended up being absolute legends (though I guess you can consider Artifact to be a legend, albeit in the context of being an utter failure very quickly after launch).
 
Also, @Bouzoo, just a correction. Tim Sweeney wasn't the one who said that they didn't want another situation like Exodus again. Instead, it was mentioned by EGS head Steve Allison.

^ This
 
Still baffles me how people still want to defend companies like how they would do for their friends.
 
Their lawyers will do a perfectly good job of that, you know.

I had a laptop at work where the headphones jack was muted when the hard drive screws were installed
 
dead serious

Slow news day?  an iphone is the best selling iphone of all the iphones.  

Now this I can see as a valid concern more so than everyone screaming "It'S OwnED BY THe ChIneSE GOvErnMEnt"

Now this I can see as a valid concern more so than everyone screaming "It'S OwnED BY THe ChIneSE GOvErnMEnt"

I ALWAY read the manual, inside and out, on such a new device.
 
I watched too many people kill something that's brand new because the assumed.
 
Yeah, I've killed new pens because I thought it was twist instead of button (was a £20 pen too, and a gift, so REAL embarrassing).
 
We all make mistakes, but somethings gone really wrong here. Not sure who to blame really. It is a new product, so needed consumers informing. It is a risky design, so needed more protection/testing/hardening against use... but also, many many tech reporters do stupid things (See Linus dropping and breaking a rare $2000 CPU, but at least he did not blame others for the mistake!).
 
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The failures from just opening/closing are bad though. This really needed to be a prototype/insider program only thing, that they perfected THEN did the big phone release. Being Apple (second to the market, but pretending to be first, but possibly perfecting the release/media/device) this time would have actually benefited Samsung. 
 
The problem with the Note 7 was not that it "exploded". Same with the 737... the problem was it was *rushed*. Here the Fold is again being rushed out.
 
Or Samsung needed an in between device to test ideas, like a $300 wrist band using the same (but smaller) panels, and then easier to perfect the folding later. 
 
They literally did this with the curved edges of displays and hole punch cameras/curved corners. These are all intermediary technologies, tiny little changes to the edges of existing tech, to sneak in beta testing to the millions of existing devices, then offer this (folding/cut/milit mode display). But while they perfected the edge folding for edge display, it's not a constantly flexed display on existing models. They needed something existing, to test out some small flexing, before releasing a whole phone with it.
 
I also suspect the second display is so if the main screen fails, you can still access the device to some extent. Damage mitigation in the wrong direction.

I was making fun of myself. ?
 
I forgot the PS2 was at 150 million. The PS4 is floating around 91 million.

Exactly this.
 
His argument against foldable phones was that it caters to the minority rather than the majority -- just like flagships do.

I never said he was wrong, I just mentioned that if we considered worldwide adoption, the trend is absolutely against flagship devices and leans way more heavily into budget Android devices.

I mean... yea. If an iPhone XS were as financially feasible to obtain as a $40 Android device, I think the iPhone XS would account for more than 70% of the worldwide market, but as it stands, it doesn't. It's a high margin, premium device for consumers that can afford it.

Apple only accounts for 12% of the worldwide market share in 2018, so I've a bit of a hunch that globally, budget Android devices reign supreme, especially given that Samsung and Huawei have greater worldwide market shares than Apple but significantly weaker flagship adoption.

It wasn't made by Apple.

I learned two things while working with tech products and customers on daily basis for the last decade.
 
a) People never read instruction manuals
b) They always complain about missing instruction manuals
 
It's like this cat from hell that keeps biting its own tail...

Isnt apple more known for stealing firsts? "First" notch, "first" to remove headphone jack, "first" "gate" lululul