One of the cooler aspects of aging might be this: feeling less obliged to assert your smidgen of correctness when you’re misread, since to write is to be misread. No one but you is inside your cranium and everyone has different associations with language and style.
I think I’m feeling a bit more relaxed than I used to about being misunderstood, especially in ways that are harmless.
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Originally Posted by Crowl
Not sure the hardware companies are tending to learn much from the software company about designing hardware, the nexus 5 was an lg g2 with a newer version of android and they are the ones that deserve the credit for their improved designs.
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Ah, but everyone says that the G3’s software is leagues better than that of the G2, and LG’s HW/SW integration might well have been influenced by working with Google on the Nexus 4 and 5.
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Originally Posted by Crowl
Their pricing has absolutely nothing to do with them trying to establish them in the market at all, nope nothing at all.  |
There’s a difference between (1) asserting that pricing is an expression purely of wanting to be competitive and (2) being polite to previous posters who feel that pricing is an expression primarily of the cost of manufacturing. You’re under the impression I made assertion (1) when in fact I was being polite about the realities in China and Korea contradicting the assertion in (2). No point in telling someone they’re dead wrong when part of what they say is true, and when I can’t assert (or assume) I’m dead right.
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Originally Posted by Crowl
Incidentally, this new tablet's 'odd dimensions' should make it more comfortable for reading on compared with the nexus 10 so it is quite odd that it is not provoking more interest on here.
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Yes, I noticed that implication in the article I read. The idea is that holding the N9 vertically would make more sense from a reading standpoint, and the N9’s 2048 x 1536p resolution is fantastic (though the ppi drops to 281 compared to the N7’s 323). Additionally, the N9’s display has the same resolution as the iPad Air 2 only in a slightly less unwieldy package. The fact that the N9 will use a Tegra processor and not Qualcomm’s Snapdragon will probably mean that the N9 will have better audio quality. Combine that with HTC’s history of caring about audio and the odds seem favorable that the N9’s sound quality and speakers will be especially good.
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Originally Posted by Kirtai
Phones have a lot more costs such as patent licencing, regulatory approval and testing, etc. Cramming the same functionality into a smaller space costs more too.
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I’m not quite sure how (or even if) you got the impression that my saying tablets tended to be cheaper than smartphones implied I didn’t know why that was the case. But perhaps you're simply stating the reasons as you see them, not explaining to me that such reasons exist.
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Originally Posted by Kirtai
I'm quite interested in the 9, I want a good comic reader.
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I’m interested in it, too, though perhaps for other kinds of use (not to slag graphic novels or your interest in them -- I make a point of trying to find an especially good series to read every two or three years).