I don’t do remote desktop. Most of people I know don’t do remote desktop. I am not saying it is entirely pointless. But if I were to do remote desktopping on multiple occasions I would carry a macbook air with me
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Samsung Debuts New Fifth-Generation Foldable Galaxy Z Smartphones
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The Flip 5 appears to have weaker cameras on paper than my five year old OnePlus 6 that’s not great for a phone in 2023.
Just read a comparison of the Moto Razr Ultra vs Samsung Flip 5. Moto wins it for me frankly....
Moto Razr Ultra Vs Samsung Flip 5 comparison
Moto Razr Ultra Vs Samsung Flip 5 comparison
Why are people locking in on remote desktop, the big one is stuff like web browsing which was mentioned in that post. That’s something that isn’t fun at all on a phone, even at home I’d rather walk to another unit and do it than use my phone for it. A foldable with a bigger screen is much nicer for that and something I actually used when I had one before.
Personally taken overall I cannot see there is much between them. The longer software support on the Samsung seems a big plus to me.
I really don’t understand why people would be against a bigger screen that fits in your pocket, aren’t people using their phones for other things than calling, texting and music? I find it kind of infuriating that Apples tech isn’t further than it is today when my iPhone is actively used for the same thing as the first iPhones was. It has a lot of passive new uses like being the key for my car and so on but screen on usage is the same where anything outside calling/texting/music is only as a last resort when out and about without a properly usable unit.
Re: "it just works" - the recent HomeKit update was the first time I've had a serious problem with an Apple service since the early days of iTunes Match mangling my collection. Given how vast their ecosystem is now, I still find Apple incredibly reliable on a daily basis.
An area where I see a lot of people struggling: coming from a competing product or service that has a different approach to a task or action. Apple's way of doing things takes getting used to in some cases, unless you start with it.
There's a lot of us IT types that use remote desktop a LOT, enough to make up for those that don't.
One of my ugliest memories of RDP was sitting in a Microsoft conference. I had a Blackberry Pearl Flip phone. That looks like an old style flip phone with a *little* bit bigger screen. No touch, just the normal flip phone keyboard. My work main server crashed and I had to use a remote power switch, ping utilities, and then remote desktop to get everything back in shape. It worked and I basically had no trouble at all except my eyes got tired from squinting so much.
Sometimes stuff happens and one might not have the right tool for the job, but we have to do what we have to do.I use RDP (or VNC) daily these days, on both my android and iPhone. or a laptop, or an iPad. It's very handy. My windows laptop, a Thinkpad X13 is lighter than a Mackbook Air 13", and has a fan that I don't normally hear. I tried an M1 MBA and it didn't work out.
When you say bloatware, do you mean things like:
Its own browser, email client, contacts app, calendar app, photo app, news app... ?? I mean Apple would never ship a device with its own branded apps preinstalled now, would it?
Large screen phones, like the Note. Apple fans used to mock them. Now the Max is the best selling phone. The Apple Pencil (the S-Pen was around since 2011). Using OLED screens. Edge to edge screens. Qi wireless chzrging. OIS. And soon, eventually, it will be folding phones. And don't forget, Samsung makes many of Apple's parts in their phones. Samsung has a small part in he high quality of Apple phones.
It's better for consumers that companies copy from each other. It makes better products.
I actually like a lot about the Razr, but apparently it doesn't work with all MVNO's here in the US according to Motorola's own web pages. It says Boost Mobile, or Infinite aren't supported. Not quite sure why, but that's a red flag for me.
Yep, definitely different and that's okay. Choice is good. I just put my order in for Flip 5.
And since the trade in deal was so insanely good, I decided to give the Galaxy watch a try again. I should get it in a couple weeks.. I'm looking forward to the better front screen!
I’ve been trying carrying around my iPad Mini everywhere today to try see if that is a solution that works instead of a foldable since some people seem to think foldables aren’t adding anything but I haven’t left the apartment yet and I am already annoyed at how inconvenient it is to always have that in my hand.
Yep, definitely different and that's okay. Choice is good. I just put my order in for Flip 5.
I have almost always had an iPhone as primary, and an Android as secondary. I ordered a Fold 5. This is the first year I am considering the Fold to be primary. For me personally, the Flip looks interesting, but I never have had the need to make an already pocketable phone even smaller. But a pocketable phone that turns into a tablet seems more useful. To each their own.
From what I hear the reliability on foldables is still not there. But I think the iPhone proposition is still very strong with high-quality software and hardware and ecosystem.
Same here. But I've been thinking about switching primaries for once too. That's why I'm trying the samsung watch again. I'm not real confident it'll beat an apple watch, but we'll see. I actually wish Apple would make an app for android to use an Apple watch with it, but that's most likely not going to happen!
Yep. <g> I can see the value of the fold definitely, but smaller is better for me.
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They have been at this folding gimmick for 5 generations and I still only managed to see only 'two' people actually own one... and they cracked their screens. It's still a solution looking for a problem and nobody has that problem. Might as well bring Zuck's metaverse into it.
You must have very big pants pockets to fit your iPad into them, since you are saying this isn’t solving a problem. I wear normal sized pants so for me all that fits is a phone and no tablet.
The price will be only for elite because Apple doesn't want make consumers to move to big iPhones if they have iPads - apple pencil accessoriaes, keyboards.
Foldable iPhones will be for elite because Apple won't make consumers to buy bigger foldable iPhones. They get money from accessories like Apple Pencil, Keyboards, Programs, Subscriptions for movies.
There are a lot of comments on this article that make me question if I was still at MacRumors. Too much praise for this copy-cat company. I praise them for component development, but trying to one-up Apple on coolness is too cringeworthy.
Too much praise for this copy-cat company. I praise them for component development, but trying to one-up Apple on coolness is too cringeworthy.
don't think it's people are against having it but more for 1800 they don't want to have worse features when spending more.they want the best cameras, best durability. all question marks on current foldable.
There are a lot of comments on this article that make me question if I was still at MacRumors.
As already pointed out, Apple copies too. Many of us appreciate the efforts of more than one company and are fans of the devices that are produced and their innovations. Not fans of a specific company, no matter what they do or produce. All companies make good and bad products. All of them. I like (or dislike) the product, not because of who makes them.
For example, no one makes a better tablet than Apple. But at the same time, I think their phones are getting stale. I like iPads and Folds. Not "I like Apple or Samsung." I don't care who makes it, I have no loyalty.