They have to lay the groundwork to condition people into thinking that the president can just ignore the courts in the near future.

Probably because they’ve already done this before in Florida.

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/florida-judge-releases-grand-jury-records-2008-jeffrey-epstein-criminal-case/61476582

Exactly. It’s not as if this tech is going in the dumpster, but all of these companies basing their multi-trillion-dollar market cap on it are in for a rude awakening. Kinda like how the 2008 housing market crash didn’t mean that people no longer owned homes, but we all felt the effects of it.

Important to consumers, yes. Important to OEMs? No, quite the opposite. I don’t think that applies to screen size.

If you believe this then why even argue against us with this “the market decided” BS argument in the first place? You’re arguing out of both sides of your mouth and contradicting your previous comments.

What did you even mean if not to imply that people weren’t buying specifically large phones because they didn’t include these anti-features?

I wasn’t implying anything. I stated that manufacturers put things like a headphone jack into a phone that seems like it was built by Fisher Price and then point to it’s lack of sales and claim “people don’t want headphone jacks”

So then you agree consumers want bigger phones?

Uh, no, I’m saying that consumers don’t always act rationally and make the best decisions which is why “market trends” can’t just be taken at face value. 1/4lb is actually smaller than 1/3lb if you weren’t aware, but consumers saw the bigger number and thought the smaller burger was the better value even though reality says otherwise.

You forget that all phones used to be small.

I haven’t forgotten that. You may have forgotten that all phones came with swappable batteries, small screens, and headphone jacks and they sold millions of them for decades. That proves these are important features because they sold well, right?

Also all those examples you gave apply to all phones, not just small one

What does that even mean? All phones come with old hardware and are poorly built outside of a couple key features?

Apple sold a 13 Mini, which was nearly identical to the 13, as much as is physically possible, and it was a dud.

So identical that they were nearly the same price which could put a lot of buyers off if they feel like they’re getting less value for their money. Consumers also think that 1/4lb burgers are better than 1/3lb burgers because they’re bigger as A&W found out in the 1980s when trying to compete against McDonalds. “The market deciding” doesn’t mean anything rational happened or that it reflects reality. You’re simply cherrypicking the result you want and shaping it to fit your argument.

Their justifications is that he was “technically in an area that he shouldn’t have been in” even though he and his supervisor both confirmed that they were never told not to be there and that they had zero signage or cones up to inform people of the danger.

I guess they expect their employees to have ESP and just know these things without having to tell any of them.

Dude was probably on an arsenal of mind altering drugs the moment they wheeled him into the ER, so I don’t find it surprising at all. People do and say all kinds of kooky stuff when recovering from anesthesia without remembering it.

What edge cases are you referring to? Screen size doesn’t matter if the resolution is the same.

They’re saying the smartphone market is too homogenous and there should be more options so that people actually have a choice in the device they buy.

If it was outselling the main model every year then they’d keep making them small.

Why would they do that if they make more money on the main model? It’s not like you have a choice in iOS manufacturers.

Maybe because people aren’t given a choice as everything is dictated by the manufacturers.

Slapping 10 year old hardware into a phone with a small screen is a guaranteed way to make people not buy your phone but that doesn’t mean people don’t want small screens, headphone jacks, replaceable batteries, etc. They just don’t want the garbage manufacturers lump in with these great features so that these phones don’t cut into their high-margin device sales.

Replacing SMT components would fall outside of repairability for 99.99999% of people. More realistically things like ports, screens, and batteries should be replaceable since they’re typically connected to the main board with cables. Furthermore ICs going back on a phone is probably extremely rare while the above mentioned items are very common failure points.

Unfortunately phone itself is not impressive especially from OS update standpoint

I swear to god manufacturers do this on purpose so that they can point to the low volume of sales and claim “See! People don’t really want these features” when in reality they’ve just slapped a couple good features onto a completely dog shit device.

Instead of sending us all COVID tests, they’ll send us a pack of healing crystals this time.

Is it possible that you’re just following too close if you feel these new turn signals aren’t fast enough for you to react?

The criticism is what prevented Clinton and Harris from getting elected and not their own words, actions, and campaigns? Same with Biden, too, and his extremely narrow victory in 2020? These three individuals who couldn’t manage to be more appealing than a failed businessman and reality TV star who’d been a laughing stock in this country for nearly 3 decades preceding his victory?

Your comment reads like propaganda, and your ideals mirror that of fascists like Putin. You want a dictatorship in this country where criticism is silenced and leaders do what they want, and it looks like you finally got it with Trump. It makes sense why you’re so opposed to the DNC doing literally anything differently than their nearly thrice failed strategy of mimicking the right. You want them to keep losing.

So you think we need to be more like the Republicans and fall in line to reject any and all criticism of our leaders, and that’s the path to fighting fascism? Buddy, that is fascism.

These warped ideals are exactly why the Democratic party is in the position that it’s in. Criticism isn’t the issue, it’s the shitty politicians pushing Republican ideals through the lens of liberalism and giving people reason to criticize. Sweeping that under the rug just to win an election isn’t solving anything. It just leads to more Trump-like candidates holding office while people continue to suffer.

Really? Then why are Republicans able to win elections despite all the criticism against them, or does it conveniently only work in the one direction that supports your argument? This is such a ridiculous take.

I’ll never look at an old man with grass-stained, white New Balances ever again.

Not in an ICE vehicle, but I may be under the false impression that some EVs use gear reduction after the motors, similar to how portal axles are set up. If that’s not the case, then you’re right it would just be the CV axles that are removed which don’t weigh quite as much.