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Hey, it has a barometric pressure sensor, that's cool. OG Galaxy Watch had one, then the WearOS replacements got rid of it.

Galaxy isn't very good on updates either. Haven't seen one on the Watch 5 Pro in a year.

Over the years I've found, in the grand scheme, unless the CEO murdered your family, who cares? I didn't buy Sony products for a couple of decades, right now I don't even remember why I stopped. I think it was around shit warranty handling. Meanwhile, I was removing viable options from my purchase pool.

More recently, I'm just trying to make my purchase decisions like I'm a business. Does the item at a given price fill the needs of the role? Does buying the year-old model at heavy discount fit the need? Avoid the top-tier release-day buzz, buy at a discount, use the tool as long as possible. These techniques collectively will stifle all the "economy" they're trying to make a profit from.

Vendors that are truly terrible will lose customers. One person's soapbox won't affect them, however, despite best efforts.

Also Ford's CEO: kills sedans in the US several years ago.

https://fordauthority.com/2024/06/ford-ceo-jim-farley-says-company-lost-billions-on-sedans/

Everything mobile manufacturers have done since smartphones finally became popular in 2007 seemed like temporary solutions due to moving so fast. It's clear now that it was all an attempt to paradigm-shift compute into leased property.

It really needs to end, along with the terrible disposable hardware designs. Even if we were not in a climate crisis, it is about as bad as the US was in the 1950s throwing trash everywhere.

On some level, especially now, want to find an alarm clock or an mp3 player or even a camera? It's getting harder and harder. Old phones with their battery removed or replaced are perfect for those roles.

Qualcomm product toolchains have been a right mess. Oddly less malicious and more, "we move too fast and branch too many platforms," historically making long-term maintenance a nightmare.

Good to see them improving that, finally.

No, and Google closed the SMS API from future growth so RCS can't be added to third-party SMS apps.

And a new set of dependency problems depending on the base image. And then fighting layers both to optimize size, and with some image hubs, "why won't it upload that one file change? It's a different file now! The hashes can't possibly be the same!" And having to find hackey ways to slap it so the correct files are in the correct places.

Then manipulating multi-arch manifests to work reliably for other devs in a cross-processor environment so they don't have to know how the sausage works...

Narrator: it is not.

That worked out great for Apple, Microsoft, and others. Good luck, Amazon.

I don't get it. They're not already?

Wow. Hadn't thought about it that way.