This is the thing price drops quickly with android/samsung devices. Wait a month or two and you may see some prices being dropped. Be interested to see the camera quailty difference from the S8 plus and iphone.
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False bud. The iPad Air was discontinued only last year and it is equipped with just a gig of ram.
As for PCs, you upgrade it. If you don't, you're not going to notice as going from Windows 7 or 8 to 10 on 4 gb of ram isn't that big of a deal.
Because they realise many customers still want one and getting rid of it was a monumentally stupid idea.
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How so? Whenever I go back to IOS it just looks really dated now. It's not really changed significantly in it's appearance for years. Android looks fresh in comparison and actually works very well. It's just different to IOS.
Just played with a demo model....
There is a minimal curve on this one compared to the S8. You'll see what I mean when you see one in the flesh. It's a lot less gradual and more pronounced, more screen real estate and a steeper curve to the sides where the bezel was in old style phones like the 7s ;-)
I like it.
What's even better than a minimal curve? No curve at all. It's such a stupid gimmick that the only good thing about it is that it must be hard to replicate if only Samsung is keeping at it.
Its still there to provide multitasking access for 2 apps onscreen at the same time ;-) Also you get used to it and it feels great in the hand now they've sorted the sensitivity out.
This has the same problem as the S8: the biometrics are a deal-breaker. People use their phones so frequently. This means the biometric authentication is one of the single most important features of a modern phone. This has been obvious since the iPhone 5S came out with Touch ID. That was four years ago, and somehow Samsung still doesn't understand this.
Compromising on biometrics because you want the screen to be closer to the edge is a straight up bad trade-off. I think Apple understands this, which is why I feel fairly confident that the rumored face authentication will be very effectively implemented. My hope is that it will be so good that the user will never really ever have to think about authentication during daily use; the phone will just work for you as though you have the passcode disabled. That's the goal that all smartphone makers should be working toward, and Samsung somehow seems to be moving in the opposite direction with their hard-to-reach fingerprint sensor and half-baked iris scanner.
Compromising on biometrics because you want the screen to be closer to the edge is a straight up bad trade-off. I think Apple understands this, which is why I feel fairly confident that the rumored face authentication will be very effectively implemented. My hope is that it will be so good that the user will never really ever have to think about authentication during daily use; the phone will just work for you as though you have the passcode disabled. That's the goal that all smartphone makers should be working toward, and Samsung somehow seems to be moving in the opposite direction with their hard-to-reach fingerprint sensor and half-baked iris scanner.
read your link again. says opposite of what you're saying
also in addition, in EU, and Canada, what you're describing is illegal. Google does not sell your data.
Seriously?
You missed the point of my statement and the explicit google reference in the article — which is that the Brokers get their data from Google, Facebook and others. It makes no mention of brokers getting information from Apple.
Here is the exact quote - emphasis added:
Google is NOT “just like Apple” when it comes to respecting user privacy and personal information sharing preferences. Apple respects you, Google exploits you. If you’re ok with that, good luck and enjoy the Google ecosystem. I’m not ok with it so I choose the Apple ecosystem. It’s a simple choice let’s not muddy it up with false equivalencies.
Oh believe me I get it but in today's world its pretty hard to keep things private but I'm not sure that Android the OS gives up privacy as much as say Chrome and Google search does. Just as an example on Samsung devices I don't use GMail I use the email app Samsung provides along with Samsung's contacts, and messaging app, in other words I try to stay away from Googles apps if I can. Thats all.
I think it's a bit late for privacy.
My amazon, adobe and multiple other accounts have been hacked already.
I now have 2 factor authentication on everything.
Seriously? Perhaps you should read my link again. Here is the direct quote for your convenience - emphasis added:
How is this the opposite of what I’m saying?
The only way your statement that “Google does not sell your data” can be true, is if Google gives your data away for free or trades it for something else. Very unlikely, but even if they don’t sell your data, they are providing it to entities who do sell it in an unanonymized manner.
Google is NOT “just like Apple” when it comes to respecting user privacy and personal information sharing preferences. Apple respects you, Google exploits you. If you’re ok with that, good luck and enjoy the Google ecosystem. I’m not ok with it so I choose the Apple ecosystem.
By the way, love the Jack Layton quote in your signature!
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While I ageee with you on some aspects. Not so much on other aspects. Apple respects profits over anything else
I use Apple devices solely so I’m not a hater. But Apple sells your data also, not your personal info but browsing habits ect. Same as google. They just don’t like to admit it. In this age of technology no one has privacy online anymore
Your approach to minimizing your exposure makes sense to me; but I simply do not trust Google to keep the OS agnostic when virtually everything else they do is optimized to extract every bit of personal and social information from every transaction.
I totally agree it’s hard to keep things private in today's World; but for me Privacy is just the tip of the iceberg called personal sovereignty. Who owns your online persona? Who owns your digital essence? Who should control the access to and sharing of this personal information? I think you should own and control these as much as you own and control other personal aspects in the real world. Google, Facebook and others think otherwise - just read their TOS.
Some believe this is a trivial issue or a lost cause. I think this is important and worth the effort to resist the total surrender of our personal rights online .. especially as more and more of our life is conducted online. I believe that Apple embraces the vision of personal sovereignty that I would like to prevail, and their actions have earned my trust — so I choose the Apple ecosystem whenever their products or services match a need.
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I agree. Apple is driven by the profit motive. They are also driven by values. Technology becomes exploitative when the profit motive is not balanced by values that respect personal sovereignty. I think that Apple is maintaining that balance in a manner that maintains my trust in them. If they falter, I’m gone. Can you provide a reference to Apple selling users browsing habits — I’ve not heard that before — ?
I may be wrong, wouldn’t be the first time. Lol. I’m sure I read somewhere here from a pretty good source that iAds use customer data to target customers. They share this with other companies. Didn’t google just pay Apple billions of $$$ to stay the default search engine. I’m sure this info is going somewhere
Ok bud,
So samsung doesn' t do that? Every tablet they released fron 2013 is more than 1gb?
Let me, help you:
http://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_tab_3_7_0-5422.php
Was released in 2013, for quite steep price and has 1 gb.
Should be fun android with 1gb.
Perhaps that is why they call it tab 3: not more than 3 tabs in chrome.
Bet a definite improvement over the tab2.
Samsung even still sells their j1 that was released in 2016 with 1gb of ram. And they still sell tons of other models with 1gb.
What should we do: sue them now?
But when it is samsung it is ok?
Please get your facts straight before starting your rant.
Both brands have their downsides, apple and samsung, but it is important that you should check facts first.
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With time I've learned to ignore kdarling's posts as he's become more and more anti-Apple as of late. Whenever there is a post praising Apple for an accomplishment they've made or a post criticizing Samsung or Google for a legitimate reason, expect kdarling to come along and oppose it, like clockwork. Of course he doesn't come off as a troll because he sounds like he's making reasoned arguments but when you pay close attention you can tell there's an agenda behind it and some of his claims don't even come close to being fact.
Maybe he isn’t a troll, just someone who works in the industry and knows the in’s and outs of it
I never said he was. But his behaviour comes off as trollish, or at least very one-sided. But he tries to pass it off as being objective and neutral, which is nowhere near true.
Apple’s advertising platform uses certain personal information to place you in groups of 5,000 or more people. iAds are targeted to these groups — not to you personally.
Regarding the search positioning deal with Google: that has nothing to do with selling your information — it simply means that Google pays to have google search as the default web search engine in iOS. You can change this to any search engine you choose. I’ve changed my default to DuckDuckGo.
Finally, “Apple does not sell or otherwise transmit any personally identifiable information to third parties.” That is a direct quote from Apple’s Advertising and Privacy policy that you can read for yourself here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223
Net-net: there’s a world of difference between Apple and google when it comes to privacy. Apple respects your privacy. Google exploits your privacy. This matters to me so I choose Apple.
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That’s the sense I got. Sad. A good, honest argument is a good thing, and I’m glad to see many of those on MacRumors.
BS. You picked a low cost $200 class tablet to prove a point. Try the Galaxy Note 8.0 or 10.1 tablet from 2013 that has 2GB, pen, split screen multitasking, etc. that are priced closer to iPads.
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_8_0-5252.php
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_10_1_n8000-4573.php