rushing? what's so rushed about releasing their product with new features every year, like everyone else is doing in the industry?
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Samsung's Galaxy S8 to Beat Next iPhone to Bezel-Free Display and Virtual Home Button
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rushing? what's so rushed about releasing their product with new features every year, like everyone else is doing in the industry?
So now Samsung will copy even before the original product is released!!!
How dare Samsung to copy Apple's future product that is not even in their roadmap!
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How dare they copy the bezelless rumor before it was even a rumor, two years ago!
Damn you dastardly Samgung time travelers!
iOS10 on my iPad AiR has been extremely buggy.
still mostly usable. but I'm having very weird behaviour with my keyboard in particular. I've even tried an OS re-install and the same issues persist
Right now, when my keyboard pops up in Apps, the App's text entry portion doesn't slide up with it, so the keyboard is ALWAYS ontop of entry screens and I can't see whats being typed. There's also a tiny 5 pixel space under the keyboard so the keyboard isn't flush with the bottom of the display.
The multi-tasking is also very buggy. I'll be in Safari with Slack slide over open. Decide to switch to slack as my main display and slack closes completely, then has to reload itself completely just to complete this.
The Notification system seems to also take a step backwards in usability. Especially on a device without touch ID and / or force touch. Clearing notifications that don't group is time consuming effort as it takes multiple steps now. if you clear them from the lock screen, you have to swipe on each one, then click "clear". instead of just swiping to clear. And you can only bulk remove notifications by pulling down the notification page then clearing them by app.
so just because YOU haven't had issues and bugs with iOS10 doesn't mean they don't exist. Trust me. iOS 10 is just as buggy as Android, windows and MacOS. they all just have their own different share of bugs
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It amuses me, Because "bezeless" design has been the whole industries goal for years. suddenly there's a rumour Apple is doing one, so now everyone else copies apple
Hint to all these crazies screaming "copy!".
Here's a list of existing devices that have gone "bezelless" or at least attempted to achieve that mythical status (Some failed, some were decent, but all attempted to make the bezels as small and invisible as possible)
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge
Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
Sharp Aquos (entire lineup)
LG G2 and G3
Oppo R7
LeTV Smartphone
Xiaomi Concept Phone (real phone, you can buy it now)
So this whole "Samsung Copies Apple" "apple copies samsung" is all a bunch of a pissing match. Both Apple and Samsung are going to where the industry has been heading already
Bezel free display AND virtual home button. Meaning it will be the first phone to have BOTH of these features.
I think the best iteration so far was the Note 7. The way the back and front joined, as well as the refraction level on the curve, hit the absolute sweetpost. I suspect that specific version will be on the Galaxy 8 series as a whole.
Xiaomi would like to have a word with you
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/25/13401440/xiaomi-mi-mix-concept-phone-specs-release-date-price
Xiaomi would like to have a word with you
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/25/13401440/xiaomi-mi-mix-concept-phone-specs-release-date-price
That's a bit unfair! do they even count?
Huh? How so? Because the iPhone 7 is rumoured to go bezel-free? Or that it is rumoured to go with a virtual home button? Last I checked, Samsung has been gunning for bezel-free display for years. For them, it's just another increment in their display tech. As for virtual home button...if you haven't noticed, a lot of android phones have been going virtual home-buttoned for a while now and Google has been pushing that idea. So how is Samsung doing what everyone else is already doing a sign of following Apple because somehow Apple is going the right way and everyone else is following? Sounds to me like Apple is the one that is trying to follow everyone else...
Samsung has total assets, as of 2014 and last full numbers, of US$529.5 billion.
Apple has total assets, as of 2015 and last full numbers, of US$321.686 billion.
Don't be mislead by market capitalisation and share price and that it generates more profit-per-penny spent: Samsung is still a far bigger company. Apple can't buy it.
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That's a bit unfair! do they even count?
nahhh, The name on it is Xiaomi, not Apple, so it's irrelevant
honestly, how can we trust any brand whose name starts with X! it's a whole 22 letters in the alphabet later. So clearly, they copied Apple
Err...sorry, I don't think I can ever go back to an actual physical home button. I hate wasted space and a physical home button is just that. Without it, much more space for a screen. Goes away when you don't need it, shows up (lag free) when you do. I see no problems here, only benefits. For the visually impaired, what benefit does a home button do? Sure, you can get to home...but from then on? Frankly, I would think, for those that are visually impaired, advances in Google Now would probably more useful.
nahhh, The name on it is Xiaomi, not Apple, so it's irrelevant
honestly, how can we trust any brand whose name starts with X! it's a whole 22 letters in the alphabet later. So clearly, they copied Apple
Half of America would be wondering how to pronounce the X.
Wow the mobile division is worth 529 billion because Apple wouldn't buy the entire company.
Why would Samsung sell their mobile division? It makes as little sense as Apple selling theirs.
It would only happen through hostile takeover... which Apple couldn't afford at ten times the size.
Because there is so much more news coming out of other companies than Apple these days. If it was only about Apple you could check this site once a year to know everything about Apple.
I'm not the one who originated the idea I was merely asking if the mobile division was worth 529 billion as someone suggested.
I'm so happy those Samsung notes aren't reliable. If they were working properly Apple would have taken a bigger nose dive in share. How can Samsung copy Apple if they're first to market with a bezel less and button less phone if Apple is so secretive and all we know about their iPhone 8 is rumors?
I told before with the introduction of iPhone 7. Innovation in phones is taking place elsewhere. Apple already lost this race.
They said "acquire Samsung" not "buy Samsung's mobile division".
There's a common delusion in the US than Apple is the giant of the tech world. I was just pointing out that's not true, and there are many much bigger tech companies, and it's a misunderstanding of what market capitalisation actually means.
Apple is a medium-sized fish.
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I don't know where Apple is focusing on the last 4 years. Everyone says Apple is focusing on mobile first and I could agree with that if their mobile devices were cutting edge. It would be more honest if Apple's new mantra would be: money first. Computers from Apple as do iPads and phones don't justify their prices anymore. If you pay premium you expect premium and cutting edge. Not buggy and mediocre.
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And somehow I'm at the impression that innovation will go faster at google than Apple. It's a pity to come to the conclusion that I lost my confidence in Apple.
FYi: Samsung is not Chinese.
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It's because you are merely rehashing worn-out jokes by other people. Being original takes some wit/intelligence.
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LOL.
Just because they're first to market doesn't mean they came up with it first.
Apple already know what the iPhone 8 will entail and have done for years. They're already prototyping iPhone 9 and 10.
Apple won this race. With their hands tied behind their backs.