A Pinball Wizard posted:

hm so I can spend $99 for good wired headphones that do exactly what I want and work with every audio device in the world except the new $1000 lolphones, or $400 on good Bluetooth headphones because a guy on a dead gay comedy forum called me a poor

Lutha Mahtin posted:

i still don't understand how MS managed to have some actual success with the xbox brand. it's like the single new consumer product/line of theirs in decades that they didn't mismanage into oblivion

A Pinball Wizard posted:

a better analogy would be they need to buy a phone manufacturer and tell them to make only windows phones

Encrypted posted:

eh, both apple and samsung still uses qualcomm for their baseband even though they've got their own soc

Shifty Pony posted:

the zip does not include any data which was not directly collected by Facebook from you. the omitted info is allegedly made up of additional data scraped from the internet and purchased from commercial data brokers. it is supposedly extremely detailed and very accurate.

so the zip might indicate the wrong address for you or a friend but the full profile they actually use for targeting will have the right one thanks to the voter registration records they purchase regularly.

The Management posted:

uh, didn’t htc sell their phone engineers to google?

Partycat posted:

I bought at Kindle Fire 2015 tablet for $15. As I was unboxing it I had this overwhelming feeling that I had just paid to dispose of someone else's garbage.

It is convinced it is a kids tablet and wants me to sign up for some bullshit. I skipped this, and find it only seems to have the Amazon store with knockoff applications, and a limited selection of things. It is slow as gently caress, where even reading web pages they just plum give out half way down and become blank while scrolling. I was able to figure out how to put the Google Play store on it so I can install a variety of viruses and applications, but, first I had to identify the 'code name' of the appliance to ensure I was looking up the right information on the XDA forums like it is a piece of James Bond spy gear.

You know, like from that scene were he is loading the secret computer codes and stands around for ten minutes looking at his watch.

8/10.

President Beep posted:

it also means “sandwich”, apparently.

eric posted:

qirex posted:

that crowd tends to be pc gamers anyway so cloud games probably wasn't their market

I'd guess some product manager's kid got hooked on fortnight mobile so they thought "how can we insert ourselves as an unnecessary gatekeeping middleman in this market?"

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

brother needs a new phone and wanted something smallish, cheap, and rugged, so was eyeing the incredibly ugly but otherwise checklist-fulfilling (se-sized) cubot king kong mini. the advertising takes an approach that seems somewhat familiar:



(also as usual a total crapshoot whether it will get security updates, the by far biggest downfall for android in 2020).

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

I haven't actually

It's a pretty new cable and a different phone seems to work which points to crud in the port.