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microsoft... welcome 2 the dongleverse
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Legit question: is this a phablet? Is it a phone?
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Schadenboner posted:Legit question: is this a phablet? Is it a phone? it's definitely not a phone in a pad but it has phone connectivity, so it's a phone
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Schadenboner posted:Legit question: is this a phablet? Is it a phone? it's one thousand four hundred dollars is what it is
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qirex posted:it's one thousand four hundred dollars is what it is This seems like a v.high price-point for, what, an iPad? 
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Schadenboner posted:This seems like a v.high price-point for, what, an iPad? more like two ipads mini and a hinge
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jfc ms
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but you can Microsoft excel on the go while ???? at home forever due to the plague
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microsoft is great because any other company would do the pricing math long before manufacturing and realize nobody actually wants to spend that much money on such a thing and cancel it but they go ahead and launch it anyway
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:jfc ms Kyocera did this in like 2011 and it failed miserably lmao
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Kyocera did this in like 2011 and it failed miserably lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A9lcwQQ0gI
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and sony and a few startups had mixed lcd eink pairings  the edge was especially interesting to me because i spotted an engineering unit being used after it was announced but it was tonka tough chunky. it was the heady early days of eink and it seemed clever. it was not great but it was the rare dual screen that was the size of an actual book
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Agile Vector posted:and sony I'd be "legit down af" (as the kids say these days) for one of these running iOS/iPadOS/Whatever on both sides? E: Apparently the kids these days now say "af". We regret the error. Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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Sagebrush posted:@samsungbloat??
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qirex posted:microsoft is great because any other company would do the pricing math long before manufacturing and realize nobody actually wants to spend that much money on such a thing and cancel it but they go ahead and launch it anyway the question is if it will outlive the kin
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Endless Mike posted:the question is if it will outlive the kin also, lol that smartphones have evolved into the same space that hdtvs have
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Schadenboner posted:E: Apparently the kids these days now say "af". We regret the error.
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we regret the posts alright
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qirex posted:microsoft is great because any other company would do the pricing math long before manufacturing and realize nobody actually wants to spend that much money on such a thing and cancel it but they go ahead and launch it anyway i can assure you that they knew the price would be far too high literally years ago. (and also battery life far too short). but at least they pivoted and decided not to have it run wcos, which would have forced them to market it as a "companion device" to be carried alongside your iphone or android. in retrospect that turned out to also be a good decision because of wdg's complete inability to produce a usable cshell for foldable devices. satya can sell to enterprises but goddamn does he have no clue what to do in the consumer space.
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yeah, that's fair. win 95 and 98 were huge successes in the consumer space
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there was a time when msft was a top-tier consumer tech brand. unfortunately for them, that time was 25 years ago. people did queue up to buy windows 95 at midnight on launch day, and it was covered by national tv news. but that was a long, long time ago.
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FMguru posted:there was a time when msft was a top-tier consumer tech brand. unfortunately for them, that time was 25 years ago. they did it for xp too, i was on local news because compusa had a bunch of other stuff on discount that was worthwhile as a college student who was awake anyway and they had a cameraman in the parking lot at lenox. my 15 seconds of fame.
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Hed posted:
might as well repost this here, since it's android shameful admission: i would probably buy a microsoft made android phone i would not buy that microsoft made android phone
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Remember 1995, when it was cool enough in late August to dress like this
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Remember 1995, when it was cool enough in late August to dress like this I'm p.sure it's never been cool to dress like that, actually?
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chore coats are back, baby
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Fiedler posted:i can assure you that they knew the price would be far too high literally years ago. (and also battery life far too short). but at least they pivoted and decided not to have it run wcos, which would have forced them to market it as a "companion device" to be carried alongside your iphone or android. in retrospect that turned out to also be a good decision because of wdg's complete inability to produce a usable cshell for foldable devices. is wcos that "windows 10x" thing they've de-scoped and delayed for like 3 years?
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Fiedler posted:ballmer is definitely a clown, but bill ruthlessly crushed all opposition in the consumer market, to the point that he had to give his competition hundreds of millions of dollars to keep them afloat and avoid even more antitrust scrutiny. think back to 1995. their competition was Apple, who people weren’t sure was going to make it to the next century, and $10000+ Unix workstations. even nt was still resource intensive enough as to not be aimed at the home market for home users consumer grade windows was basically the only game in town
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The_Franz posted:think back to 1995. their competition was Apple, who people weren’t sure was going to make it to the next century, and $10000+ Unix workstations. even nt was still resource intensive enough as to not be aimed at the home market I like to think about the original Macintosh which was $8400 in 2020 bucks and still sold well enough to continue development. America was a different world back then.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I like to think about the original Macintosh which was $8400 in 2020 bucks and still sold well enough to continue development. tbf apple was also like 1/1000 the size it is today. they weren't selling Macintoshes at iphone scale.
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qirex posted:is wcos that "windows 10x" thing they've de-scoped and delayed for like 3 years? pretty much, yeah. in theory wcos refers to a re-architected windows -- a modular platform on top of which different shells can be easily slotted for different device form factors. in practice it's a clusterfuck where terrible design decisions made up front necessitated more terrible workarounds, all culminating in thousands of man years wasted in order to produce an os that's inferior in every imaginable way except for the handful of demo scenarios used to sell it up the chain.
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The_Franz posted:think back to 1995. their competition was Apple, who people weren’t sure was going to make it to the next century, and $10000+ Unix workstations. even nt was still resource intensive enough as to not be aimed at the home market true, but the home computer monopoly game started in the early 80s and it took until 1995 for billg to finally win it.
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Sagebrush posted:tbf apple was also like 1/1000 the size it is today. they weren't selling Macintoshes at iphone scale. No one is selling anything at iphone scale except iphones, bad example.
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