If Samsung’s One UI is good as it seems by Android Q time, I might sell my iPhone and move back to Android.
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Totally agree with you. You don’t have to see what’s coming from Apple these days to see where technology is heading. Another example is the MacBook Pro with the user unfriendly touchbar disaster. Asus just found a way that’s much more user friendly to use:
You must be new here. The whole reason for the internet was created was to allow people who are clueless to complain about vaporware products and complain about non-existant features.
Well, maybe not the only reason; Nigerian princes needed a way contact you to let you know the want to share their ten million, four hundred thirty six thousand, two hundred and ten dollars and thirty two cents with you for a small fee in advance.
Cheers...
you are right, it is a breakthrough tech but silly implementation. Folding phone is a silly idea and gimmick at best.
I hope it will die on arrival and I really hope Apple is not even wasting time with such concept.
What implementation Apple comes out is more refined and more useful?
The touchbar on the MacBook Pro or:
Touchbar feeelings aside I think the ASUS solution would be a horrible human interface design; with the touchpad alternating between touchpad and touchbar potentially being confusing as to what mode it is in as well as interupting the touchpad response when it acts as a touchbar. For example, what happens if you want to lower the voulme while moving the pointer? F^ switch - F6 switch etc...With the touchbar or keys you can do both at the same time, with such an interface that may be diffciult if not impossible.
One thing that has potential is putting a touchbar at the top of the touchpad. Keep that and make the rest a touch pad, and return function keys to where the touchbar is on the MBP. Best of bouth worlds
Cool concept/feature but gimmick in the end. Not gonna go to describe dozens of reasons why is this a bad idea. I will just say one that is above them all.
ERGONOMICS - having to look down and tilting your head etc. creates a constraint that over long period of time will bring health issues. So the more time you spend on this silly thing the more likely you will experience muscle pain etc.
Even the touch bar on MBP is stupid but because its so useless then you don't spend that much time on it so its probably fine.
Ergonomics should be above all features. Thats why we don't have touch screen macs as that concept is just a nightmare ergonomics wise.
Plenty.
Airpods
I happen to like the 1st gen Apple Pencil’s charging method, for all the flak it got.
The battery case.
How Final Cut Pro on an under-specked MacBook runs rings around more powerful laptops running premiere.
I use my ipad to teach in the classroom for a reason. I just love the fluidity of iOS, coupled with the portability and long battery life of an ipad.
All made possible because of Apple’s unique design-led culture.
I agree with you that this isn’t ergonomic friendly and that was the first thing I said about the touchbar. But I think this one is far more useful than the touchbar.
useful? Yes! Would I want it? No way as I value my health more than some gimmick feature. Spending 10+hours a day on a computer my setup has to be super ergonomics or otherwise I will end up in gutter
Apple’s been researching foldables for years. And they’re perfectly fine with letting Royole launch the world’s first foldable phone. And if Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi and whoever else wants to launch one too, Apple’s fine with that.
When will the Apple-hate crowd realize that Apple simply could not care less what other companies choose to release, and when?
You know what's really funny? People that supposedly hate a company but takes the time to read daily rumors about said company, make an account on a rumor site about that company, check it regularly and then post.
I hate Microsoft and I have no idea if there is a rumor board. See the difference?
That's just it... you don't HAVE to open it to use it.
The 4.6" screen is on the outside of the phone.
I truly have no desire in this. But you may be talking to the wrong person as I lost the desire for even the best iPhones.
Smart phones and tech is meh to me. I lost my love I guess
Right, so then why, if I don’t want to open and close the phone would I even buy it?That's just it... you don't HAVE to open it to use it.
The 4.6" screen is on the outside of the phone.
You don't really believe that, do you?
Are you implying that anyone who criticises Apple is also a "hater"?
That is incredibly simplistic way of looking at it.
Some of us who are critical of Apple in some areas have come a long way with Apple.
I agree there is a lot of innovation left to do, and as someone who started in the old Hollerith card days it is amazing how far we've come and I look forward to what's next.
That said, there is still plenty of innovative things around; if not in the tech but how it is employed. For example, I received an Apple watch as a gift. Now, I am an old school mechanical watch person, for example one of my favorites is a early Cuervo y Sobrinos cased Movado manual movement but have found the Apple watch quite useful. I can answer calls without my iPhone handy, and really wish Apple would add the hand writing recognition to iOS across the board. Yes, Palm with Graffiti did it years ago but I had forgotten how useful it was until I started using it to reply to texts on the Apple watch.
Years ago, in the Pepsi guy days, I saw an Apple internal video that had Woz wearing glasses that acted as a screen and hd a tiny memory card slot. Wouldn't it be cool if you could buy regular glasses or prescription ones that connected to the watch and allowed you to use them as a screen when you wanted to read emails, use a browser, etc. and use SIRI or the watch's HWR as inout.How about a virtual touch screen or keyboard that you typed like playing an air guitar? What seemed like science fiction (Dick Tracy's wrist radio, Uhuru's communicator in her ear) is now so common they are the butt of jokes.
I would assume for the times when you need a bigger display.Right, so then why, if I don’t want to open and close the phone would I even buy it?
Hell I hate looking at spreadsheets on any phone (yes, I review a lot of documents while traveling).
Being able to open my phone to a larger screen sounds nice.
How it works in real life is yet to be seen, but I won't knock it until I see it in action.
As an iPhone user I am anxious to see what they offer. Samsung has some great technology in their devices that Apple should peep over the fence at and possibly integrate into their devices.