[QUOTE=Protocol7;52251021]I think most people would prefer having to pay a deductible ($200 is egregious, most companies charge maybe $150; the most expensive I have personally paid is $99 flat) versus dropping their phone and being fucked; especially if you're on an early upgrade plan.[/QUOTE]
For most people, you have a very limited number of incidents and it acts just like real insurance. After a claim your prices for the insurance go up. I've seen several cases where the client is outright rejected and a claim is not accepted. It's not a perfect system and it's absurd. Insurance is just another thing tacked onto your monthly bill. Like I said, it's perpetual lease and in the end you always end up paying for more than the phone is actually worth. A year into a plan, you can upgrade. By that point a refurbished device of what you just traded in costs less than whatever you paid into it for that first year.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;52251021]Most people don't drop cameras anymore because they bring their phone everywhere they go. Because the smartphone has basically 100% replaced point and shoot cameras.[/QUOTE]
People don't drop cameras because people who own cameras actually take care of them. My problem is, for how egregiously expensive phones are, people treat them like children's toys. I've been fixing phones for 3 years now and I've seen it all. You'd be surprised at how many nightstands break someone's phone.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;52251021]Why is it unnecessary? The benefits of having a camera on an Internet-capable device are obvious. Why can't the camera on the Internet-capable device be a good one too? Do you think if smartphone manufacturers put worse cameras in their phones that they'd magically be able to make everything else better?[/QUOTE]
I think having cameras is fine. What I'm specifically calling unnecessary is this "incredible innovation" of a dual camera for the iPhone 7. The module is twice the size of the previous cameras which also looked just fine. They could have kept the cameras the same as the previous models and used the small real estate gained from that to do something actually useful like make a slightly bigger battery. The removal of the headphone jack permitted this but they also doubled the size of the taptic engine solely for the purpose of removing the momentary switch from the home button. Had they not done that and kept the taptic engine the same size and didn't go for this dual camera gimmick they could have kept the headphone jack and had the same amount of real estate to increase the battery size.
When your job is to fix these piles of shit you really start to get an understanding of how stupid the design is.
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;52249478]Having a good looking haircut makes you good looking, having a hipster haircut makes you a hipster.[/QUOTE]
Those aren’t “hipster haircuts” or however you want to call them. Everybody has haircuts like these nowadays because it simply looks good. It’s a sidecut, undercut, etc etc. It’s been around forever because it looks stylish and sharp. I’d say a manbun is more hipster then what those haircuts are and manbun isn’t even hipster. But then again why does nerds label things that look good “hipster”. Like it it supposed to be a insult or what.
Like it’s been like this for years now, step outside in the fresh air, look at people and notice that hair like that is totally normal now - it’s funny that a gaming forum is the only place where i see people still label it as “hipster”.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;52249586]Alternatively you could spend almost half as much money on a decent DSLR camera and get actual professional results.
It's cool and all but when the fuck am I going to get a phone that doesn't slow to a crawl when I have YouTube and maps in the background. When am I going to get a phone thats actually fast? How about one that lasts longer on battery?
I'm fuckin sick of this trend of slimmer devices. That just makes them more fragile. I'm sick of these innovations in features that don't effect things that matter. This solves a problem that it doesn't need to. Get a $300 DSLR and get even better results.[/QUOTE]
get a pixel
[editline]20th May 2017[/editline]
also haloguy it may surprise you but even some pro photographers buy phones specifically for their cameras these days.
"the best camera is the one you've got on you"
even if you're not the market that doesn't mean there's no market, otherwise they wouldnt make better cameras for phones
[QUOTE=haloguy234;52249586]Alternatively you could spend almost half as much money on a decent DSLR camera and get actual professional results.[/QUOTE]
but you also get a phone
also i can't carry a dslr around with me all of the time, a phone fits in my pocket
[QUOTE=gokiyono;52239713]Having a hipster looking haircut makes you more hipstet
You'd know[/QUOTE]
go outside
[QUOTE=Eric95;52253642]go outside[/QUOTE]
The way some of you guys are taking this, dear lord
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;52253273]get a pixel
[editline]20th May 2017[/editline]
also haloguy it may surprise you but even some pro photographers buy phones specifically for their cameras these days.
"the best camera is the one you've got on you"
even if you're not the market that doesn't mean there's no market, otherwise they wouldnt make better cameras for phones[/QUOTE]
Having a more powerful camera on your phone really doesn't hurt at all, as long as it doesn't detract from the phone itself obviously (either cost or resource usage!). A few friends who do photography for a living will happily use the camera on any phone that isn't some bargain bin trash for quick work if they didn't bring their DSLR and horde of lenses.
Considering how easily these things fit into pockets there's always a use for "in the moment" shots with zero real downsides!
The whole dual camera thing on the iPhone 7 is neat, some earlier Android phones had experimented with it before if I recall, but they weren't mass market beasts like the iPhone so nobody would ever remember them. Which kinda sucks.
[QUOTE=gokiyono;52253702]The way some of you guys are taking this, dear lord[/QUOTE]
dont worry they were all popular hipster cuts but some people dont like being called what they are
[editline]20th May 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=hexpunK;52253936]Having a more powerful camera on your phone really doesn't hurt at all, as long as it doesn't detract from the phone itself obviously (either cost or resource usage!). A few friends who do photography for a living will happily use the camera on any phone that isn't some bargain bin trash for quick work if they didn't bring their DSLR and horde of lenses.
Considering how easily these things fit into pockets there's always a use for "in the moment" shots with zero real downsides!
The whole dual camera thing on the iPhone 7 is neat, some earlier Android phones had experimented with it before if I recall, but they weren't mass market beasts like the iPhone so nobody would ever remember them. Which kinda sucks.[/QUOTE]
Yep. Not only can I take dank reference photos with my Pixel, it's beyond sufficient for general photogrammetry work. Both really useful in my field where you might pass by the perfect subject to capture while going out for a bite.
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;52254037]dont worry they were all popular hipster cuts but some people dont like being called what they are[/QUOTE]
The worst part is that I never said anything about weather or not they were good or bad haircuts :v:
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