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by mjm1138 2889 days ago
So Android manufacturers, led by Samsung, have decided to harp on modem speed because they know they are years behind Apple on processor speed with little they can do about it, and the tech press has decided to carry their water for them. In my lifetime I have never heard anyone complain about, or even discuss, download speeds on their phone.

What's next? "The new Galaxy S12 can reach ignition temperature within 5 seconds of power on. Beat that, Apple!"
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tpush 2889 days ago
> In my lifetime I have never heard anyone complain about, or even discuss, download speeds on their phone.

Similarly, I've never heard normal people complain about or discuss the CPU speeds of their smartphone.

Companies will always harp on each others products when they can, and the tech press writes about it because it gets clicks; no conspiracy here, I think.

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bena 2889 days ago
It's that and "customization" that gets harped on the most.

However, the biggest "customizations" I've see were changing the font to a nigh unreadable one and to install apps they didn't pay for.

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mulletbum 2888 days ago
This might go under your "didn't pay for," but it does annoy me that apple doesn't allow emulators. I bought some SNES games, the console went under, I would still like to play them on my iPhone. I know it probably is a gray area for most people, but none the less, Apple could let it be done, but they don't.
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bena 2888 days ago
They probably want to avoid the issue all together.

I used to hang around the Dreamcast homebrew scene and the stance on emulators were that they were mostly a proof of concept/educational thing so you could talk about the emulators, how well they performed, bugs, etc, but you couldn't talk about where to get ROMs or distribute emulators with ROMs on the site.

I don't know how that'd work with iOS apps. In order to keep the emulator app separate from the ROM, you'd need to be able to download the ROM to some sort of general storage. Then the app would need to be able to access that storage. I guess you could do it off of dropbox. Point the emulator to some URL where the ROM is stored. Downloads the ROM on demand, etc.

The major point is that the app can't really have somewhere official that says "ROMs be here".

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mulletbum 2887 days ago
Correct, but emulation apps would thrive without that. It isn't like people who make emulators are trying to build them for mass consumption.
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reaperducer 2889 days ago
What's next? "The new Galaxy S12 can reach ignition temperature within 5 seconds of power on. Beat that, Apple!"

I saw on Facetagram that Samsung phones plummet out of airplanes almost twice as fast as iPhones.

If I drop a grand on a mobile phone, it has better be the first one to the ground!

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stiGGG 2889 days ago
They should call it Blast Networking.
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