The Technology Vent and Rant Thread

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The cost to buy a new battery and rent the tools is actually slightly more expensive then having Apple replace the battery. For an iPhone 12 Pro Max, it's $89 for Apple to do it. To buy the battery and rent the tools, it's $95.28. So it's cheaper for Apple to replace your battery then it is to do it yourself using Apple's battery and tools.

It should cost less than $14 for the battery and either require no tools, or standard ones. I won't buy an Apple anything; not worth it till they stop being greedy.

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What I am saying is that you cannot use we because we incorporates people (like myself) who do not suffer motion sickness. So you have to remove we and come up and a more accurate term or word.

Then you cannot say that, for example, high frame rate video is superior because "we" incorporates people like myself for whom it is not. You can't have it both ways.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

It should cost less than $14 for the battery and either require no tools, or standard ones. I won't buy an Apple anything; not worth it till they stop being greedy.

Once we get iPhones with replaceable batteries, I expect the cost to be a lot more reasonable given we'll most likely have 3rd party batteries and we won't need tools.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ratinox

Then you cannot say that, for example, high frame rate video is superior because "we" incorporates people like myself for whom it is not. You can't have it both ways.

High Frame Rate is better and I think most people who are against it would find it better after enough watching to see that is is superior.

I've read of people not wanting to switch from a plasma TV because they found is superior but after switching to a good OLED, they changed their mind. I think HFR will be the same for some people.

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

High Frame Rate is better and I think most people who are against it would find it better after enough watching to see that is is superior.

Then you cannot say that, for example, high frame rate video is superior because "we" incorporates people like myself for whom it is not. You can't have it both ways.
But I repeat myself.

[Solitaire1]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Myth. It was the cheap/easy access to internet via innovative phone contracts. It didn't have copy / paste and in Europe no 3G. The tile finger interface was bought in and already done by others. We were testing a 4G VOIP PDA prototype with a bought in similar interface just befor iPhone release. We had a 2nd prototype using the same Samsung layered ARM cpu (RAM and Flash and CPU in one package to reduce PCB complexity and area).

Apple are x2 to x4 overpriced the last 20 years and over hyped.

Related: When I saw my first smartphone I wasn't impressed. The reason was that, with the exception of making phone calls and sending text, I was doing most of the things on my Palm OS PDA that I could do on a smartphone...at least half a decade before the first smartphone. Just some of those things included: Reading ebooks, playing games, word processing, database, to-do list, games, calendar, alarms, and e-mails (I would write them on my PDA, sync it with my computer and it would send out outgoing e-mails and loaded received e-mails on my PDA). This was on a device that cost less than $200.

Also, the first iPhone was released in 2007. In 1999 Palm released a smartphone (the Palm VII).

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

Also, the first iPhone was released in 2007. In 1999 Palm released a smartphone (the Palm VII).

But it did use AA batteries!

[Solitaire1]

Originally Posted by ratinox

But it did use AA batteries!

Actually, I think it used AAA batteries. That's what my Handspring Video (a Palm OS PDA).

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I've never had motion sickness in my life. I don't think VR would cause me any motion sickness. So when you say we, please don't as all of us do not all get motion sickness.

Jon, you always refer to your personal experiences and opinions as if everyone has exactly the same experiences and opinions. Goose/gander.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I've never had motion sickness in my life.

I only get motion sickness if there is motion involved (cars, trains, boats, planes, carousels) or motion is portrayed, simulated or referred to.

[DNSB]

One friend of mine used to be fun to take to the movies. Even watching a boat on a still pond caused him to feel seasick.

[Renate]

I'm the biggest ereader fan and I am happy to have ereaders replace all the books in the universe.

But I don't care how far technology goes, real thinking requires a pad of paper and a pen.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ratinox

Then you cannot say that, for example, high frame rate video is superior because "we" incorporates people like myself for whom it is not. You can't have it both ways.
But I repeat myself.

I didn't say we. I gave an opinion and said most people. You cannot prove that's incorrect. But your posting that I said we is 100% incorrect.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Jon, you always refer to your personal experiences and opinions as if everyone has exactly the same experiences and opinions. Goose/gander.

I'm not saying everyone is the same. I'm saying that we includes me which is incorrect as I don't get motion sickness. So we cannot be used correctly as I should not be in that group.

[issybird]

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Drop the pronoun discussion, now.