Gray @ GrayBoltWolf @lemmy.world

Linux & Azure cloud engineer. Sometimes a wolf, or a fuzzy dragon.

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For real, if google didn’t completely screw up messaging every single year it wouldn’t be as big of a deal.

Who is going to pay Dell, HP, Acer, etc to install Linux?

Just because MS can throw billions at these OEMs doesn’t make that “Linux’s burden”.

See also Dell & Lenovo sell laptops with Ubuntu.

So, exactly the same as windows.

Can you even order windows on a CD anymore?

FYI downloads are good for 30 days, not 3.

Battery issues and overheating from the Tensor SoC, which we all know is based on the Exynos (which Samsung stopped using because it was so bad).

On the price:

Top spec models -

Samsung S23 Ultra 1 TB is $1619

iPhone 14 Pro Max 1 TB is $1599

Normal models-

Samsung S23 128 is $799

iPhone 14 128 is $799

How is the iPhone more expensive? At worst it's the same price, and you get more than double the years of software support.

Top class enh?

Must be why the forums and communities are full of people asking about battery drain, reception issues, and software update bugs.

Also what iPhone you buying that’s $1200? You do know samsung has several devices that are more expensive than even the top tier iPhone, right?

iOS is a majority share, but not by much.

My opinion here might upset some fanboys:

Android is in a sad state right now with only a few big OEMs pushing into the market, and the fragmentation is what’s killing it. The average person doesn’t care about customizing or having a micro SD slot, they just want to text and browse TikTok - so they choose a phone that’s simple and works without headache for years.

On the android side you have really only Samsung, Motorola, and sorta google. Motorola covers a lot of the budget android market, but it’s cheap disposable phones. Samsung covers the whole range, but then you buy into the bloatware and duplicate apps. Then you have google sitting in the corner eating glue, consistently releasing phones with hot SoCs, bad reception, and botched software updates.

For the average person the iPhone makes complete sense as Apple only releases a few phones a year, and for a while now every single one has been relatively issue-free. Customers feel confident that the newest iPhone will be a similar experience, copy all their data over in 5 minutes, and work well for years to come.

So really I wouldn’t say it’s a case of “profitability”, moreso lacking compelling feature to draw in new customers, while continuing to bleed customers to the iPhone because the average person doesn’t want to be bothered with complicated features that aren’t consistent across android OEMs. We’ve seen a lot of Android OEMs leave the US market because of these reasons.

Well keep in mind the 14 has the same SoC as the 13, so Apple will probably provide software for the same time since they are essentially the same phone.

I made the switch recently to a 13 mini, just hated how big everything is now.

Personally I’d say just get the regular one and save the money. The Pro is a big cost increase for 120Hz and a third camera, otherwise they do basically all the same stuff. Apple supports both models for 6+ years anyway, so longevity isn’t an issue either way.

Why did google kill [product]?

Insert anything from the ever-growing google graveyard.

My best advice would be to make sure you enable static port mapping on your NAT rules. That usually helps a lot of NAT traversal things like games.

And no, Nintendo doesn’t understand networking in the slightest and asking people to forward every single port is BS.

It just adds a static route so that if dynamic route tables change it doesn’t have to wait to re-learn the new routes to start pinging that IP again.

It won’t change your gateway routing for normal traffic.

Your local animal shelter.

Adopt!

I’d say the 865 was the last “good” Qualcomm chip before the 8 gen 1 broke everything. It can be found in the Galaxy S/Note 20 generation.

Pretty much any soc made by samsung is hot and slow. The return to TSMC with the 8+ gen 1 we saw the thermal improvements.

Sony Xperia works fine on Verizon and is even whitelisted for VoLTE.

If they have your passcode then no? Why would you give your passcode to someone you don’t trust?

Noticed this as well, I keep seeing the same topics and articles posted 4-6 times within a day or so. Getting annoying.

Sony does this (and the iPhone), but yeah should be a standard feature.

And US models have a different chassis to remove the SIM card.

Not saying they will do this, but they obviously don’t care about region specific models.

Just FYI Sony Xperias have call screening as well as headphone jacks.