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DVDs didn't have much of a market in 1995 because they didn't exist. Yet by your logic VHS was selling just fine so why bother changing!? You have no idea what market research is, or what its purpose is and are perfectly happy to conflate a lack of products satisfying a need with evidence for a lack of a need. That's not how this works. People are buying iPhone 4s and 4Ss, to satisfy this but they just aren't the high end devices that they used to be.

 

I'm not going to try and educate you about the extreme basics of markets any more, go and read a damned book and stop assuming that you know anything.

VHS to DVD happened for market progression. It sounds like you think companies went from 3 inch phones to 6 inch phones in 1 move. They progressively went from smaller phones to bigger phones, bigger phones sold better so they stopped making smaller phones and created bigger phones, that cycled repeated until where we are today. You don't think there was high end 3.x and 4.x inch phones? They took risks with 4.x phones, they sold better than 3.x phones, so they got rid of 3.x and moved on with different size 4.x phones, and they sold better. The market slowly moved because bigger phones sold better until the present day. You seem to think that your POV is the only POV that exists. Just because you see one way doesn't mean the rest of the consumers see the same way.

Not really

 

You realise in Japan they still sell tons of feature flip phones? you know.. those phones we used before Android and iOS...

 

Apple sell globally, perhaps the Chinese markets love smaller, cuter, more colourful phones etc, what about younger people? kids and teens that have iphones etc that want a smaller more fun looking product

Japan's population is pretty tech illterate. Asians in general love cute colorful phones. I'm not sure what the chinese likes, but I'm half japanese, half korean, so I have relatives from both countries. My female korean relatives all like the note series, they want giant colorful phones that they can decorate. While on the japanese side they don't seem to care. Most of them just have iPhone. And people still buy feature flip phones because cellphone bill prices are ridiculous. I don't have any info on other carriers, but docomo still uses pay by minute rates. You pay like 35 dollars a month for 25 minutes of phone call, and you pay by the minute after that.

How do you measure sales of a product that doesn't exist? Of course large screen phones are selling in immense amounts: if you want a high end smart phone you literally don't have an alternative.

Well there you go. They don't have any initiative to make smaller screen phones, they'll keep producing large screen phones as long as they're selling. Market doesn't exist, so they won't produce anything for a market that doesn't exist. What's so hard to understand.

There is every need for research. How can you measure demand for something of which there is no supply? Demand is how many people are buying a thing. Without the thing pre-existing there can be no demand, which is the whole point of market research.

 

In this thread alone there's a demand for high end, small smartphones. 4.7" is, for me, the ideal, but at the same time the absolute upper limit of a phone I'd actually want. I can totally see people wanting the whole 3.5" single handed use thing back.

Sales speak for themselves. Economically it would be a retarded move to produce small screen phones when large screen phones are selling in immense amounts.

There's a clear demand for faster internet speeds but I don't see rollouts of fiber or lower prices.

That's also the thing. The people who demand faster internet are loud, they voice their opinion, but they're still the minority. Most people, which are the people who actually pay the bills for internet, don't even know that they're getting shit service for high prices. Most of the market is like this, people who know what they want are always the minority.

Cool, do present your market research backing this up that sounds quite interesting

No need for research, following the law of supply and demand, if there was a demand there would be a supply. More demand would result in more production and lower prices, while less demand results in higher prices and lower supply. Following this basic law of economics, there isn't a supply because the demand is nonexistent, or the demand is so little that companies don't care.

Makes sense. Dad is currently loving my old iPhone 4 because of its form factor. It's quite difficult to find a high end, small smart-phone now. Most of the tiny android devices are in the £30-100 price range and are really low spec. The iPhone 4 is more powerful than what he had been previously using, despite being older.

It's hard to find because there isn't a market for it. The amount of people that want a small screen is the minority. Most of the market is fine with around 5 inches.

I completely disagree with this open headphones will blow any artificial surround headphones out of the water when it comes to positional audio

This is from my experience, I have a pair of HD598, while not the greatest headphones, I'd consider them to sound pretty damn good. Now I use them most of the time, but I using a pair of Siberia v2, I get much clearer footsteps when I used to play CS:GO. I used the 598 for everything else, but if I needed positional audio, I always used the siberia v2, because it was alot easier to hear footsteps with.

Well people seem to think music performance is the only thing that matters in games. While in casual games that might be true, if you're looking for a "gaming optimized" headset, that means you would want to hear footsteps and stuff, and for those stuff audiophile headphones are horrid to use. It's much better to get a cheap Kraken Pro than a 300 dollar audiophile headphone for "gaming". While it won't sound as good for music/movies, it's much better for gaming where you want to hear small details like footsteps more clearly.

Guess what, that is not a large difference at all and not very noticeable at all.

Just because you say so doesn't make it so.

Sure there will be a small difference

, but absolutely not worth it for the battery you sacrifice.

You can use your lame argument of people constantly wanting higher res in the past but at one point it stops.

And 720p to 1080p wasn't noticeable either when screen sizes were 4.5-4.7 inches. What you're saying isn't unique or special to 1080p, literally everything you said has applied to the lower resolution that came before it. That's why it will be taken with a grain of salt by most companies.

Well aren't you a spoiled little bitch.

But when you bitch at them, you tend to get 100/something.

Hey, it ain't my fault your country has shitty Internet. Don't you wish you had Google fibre roll out? Seriously, double digit mbps speeds are slow. That should not satisfy you.

Well you don't see much difference between 1080p and 1440p so I say no, at least improve batteries significantly before upping res.

Guess what, people also said there wasn't much of a difference between 7,200 and 1080p. And 1440p is definitely sharper than 1080p,just like how 1080p is sharper than 720p

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/229119-government-starts-testing-a-program-in-which-a-user-must-have-license-internet-id-to-access-the-internet/page-6#

If you actually read the article and research the topic, you will have no idea what all the idiots in the comment section are talking about. It's like they formed an opinion on based on the title without any information, and they sound like idiots because of that.

Huh, interesting. But I'd rather see more phones get two or so days out of the battery before 1440p goes mainstream. Maybe even take care of both of those things in one phone, like the Droid Turbo.

Battery to, there's been a lot of people that wanted battery progress, didn't really happen. We have like note 4 and LG g3 that could last a day or two with giant batteries.

Tools designed for different uses cannot reasonably be compared to each other. But if you really want to compare X99 to Z97 and declare one superior, please quantify "better".

Different uses? It's not like we're comparing consumer products to server products. It's a consumer o7 vs consumer i7, one is cheaper and performs worse, the other is more expensive and performs better.

What the hell are you talking about? A high end Z97 is more than capable in gaming, even at 4K

Alright let me break it down for you, since you seem to lazy to comprehend it yourself. Look at his build, and look at what he's planning to buy, pretty much everything is high end, so you can easily assume that he has alot of money to spend. With that much money, he could easily jump to a x99 platform, which is still BETTER than any z97 chip. Just because one product is better than another, it doesn't make the inferior product bad. Superior/inferior doesn't describe a product, it just describes how its placed compared to a different product. Which in this case, x99 is a superior platform compared to z97, but that doesn't mean z97 is terrible, its just not better than x99, hence it's inferior to x99. Understand?

Eh, I'm fine with 1080p for now. I'd rather see battery life become better before resolutions increase, personally.

People always say that with everything. It only takes a year or two for them to change their minds. What you're saying applied to every single standard resolution released on a phone, the number of core/ram on a phone, screen size etc.

What the hell are you talking about? A high end Z97 is more than capable in gaming, even at 4K

I feel like you didn't even try to comprehend what I said.

Sometimes it makes me sad that they are my cable/phone/ISP. But their internet is sooooo good.

If you're satisfied with their shitty 30mbps connection... You've never had good internet. Anything below 100 is ancient, and anything below 500 isn't modern.

I still don't understand why people want 1440p screens on phones. I'd want better battery life before higher-resolution screens.

People also didn't understand why anyone would want a 720p display when 480 was a sweetspot. And then people couldn't understand why anyone would want 1080p displays on phone when 720p was a sweetspot.. Give it a year and you'll be wondering why anyone would want a 4k display when 1440p is the sweetspot.

I'd step up to X99 and 5820k. You're build isn't bad by any means. Just that you seem to have alot of money to spend, and x99 with their 6 core CPUS would provide you a better experience in long term.

This is a small case, and I'd only go for something around $120 for water cooling. Any suggestions?

Honestly, unless you're getting one of those expandable closed loops, or getting a closed loop for your GPU, I'd stick with air cooling. I can't stand AIO coolers because of their pump noise.

h75 is a waste of money. Either go 240mm radiator, otherwise air coolers will always be cheaper/perform better/more silent

I want everyone to SEE and HEAR my keyboard, even in neighboring houses! Niche switch on a niche board at a niche price. I can understand why they'd drop it.

Have you actually used blue switches? You can't even hear them through a closed door. Blue was only switches with a sharp click, the brown's small dull bump isnt even close to the satisfaction of typing on a blue. Clears are better than browns, they have a more noticeable bump, but still nothing compared to the clicks of green/blue switches.

We are not arguing the same thing.  You said "Any LGA1150 cpu, i'd say is a waste to watercool".  I'm arguing if you overclock it's good the watercool. I'm arguing for water cooling in general like an AIO. Custom loops are almost always not necessary.

If we're not aurguing about the same issue then its not an argument, just pointless bickering