Comments by "shazmosushi" (@shazmosushi) on "MediaTek, Explained: Taiwan’s Fabless Semiconductor Giant" video.

  1. My first smartphone back in the early 2010s had a MediaTek chip in it (MT6575). It had pretty good performance for its era. There were hundreds of different white-label versions of the same reference design, each competing with each other on price and by selecting slightly different components for better battery capacity/RAM/storage/camera etc. The worst part of using a Chinese smartphone was being forced to use the white-label brand's custom modified Android version, complete with all the non-removable Chinese spyware like AdUps: you were stuck with the untrusted vendor's spyware riddled operating system. Advanced users who re-install their operating systems enjoyed very little support from the broader custom ROM community, and no support from the more trusted custom ROMs such as LineageOS (formerly named CyanogenMod). Also the tablet/smartphone manufacturing quality was pretty bad, at least in those days: the microphone and headphone jack broke on that phone, and a similar era tablet had bad overheating and stability issues. That's why I swore off the cheap Chinese white-label brands that MediaTek chips tend find their way into. This was way before the current human-rights situation came to light and modern "boycott China" movement starting gathering momentum. After the subsequent death of the Google's excellent Nexus line, these days I recommend certain Samsung Galaxy M smartphone models. They are very reasonably priced, assembled in Vietnam rather than China (which is better for human-rights), have excellent screen quality if you choose the right model according to the specifications, have exceptionally great battery life (again, if you choose the right model according to the specifications), they get regular security updates from Samsung, and don't have Chinese spyware (but unfortunately have other kinds of bloatware from Samsung). The M series is basically filling the niche that Xiaomi/Oppo/Vivo and the other internationally successful Chinese smartphone brands have been doing quite successfully: great bang-for-buck mid-range phones.
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  2. Most underrated semiconductor YouTube channel. Most underrated China analysis YouTube channel. Most underrated Asia business YouTube channel. The list goes on...
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  3. ​ @Asianometry  The recent subscribers entered your channel through your recent explainer videos which did really well. I think you'll eventually get to 100,000 subscribers if you maintain current research and quality. But you'll get way more if you use more clickbaity titles and thumbnails. More dynamic content would also help. For your great/punchy rapid-fire explainer videos I look forward to you playing more dynamic background music (I Dunno by Grapes). Your microphone quality is better now, so you can easily make sure the background music doesn't drown your voice out. It will be pretty mindblowing if you can get your Patreon numbers to scale proportionally! As they say in Star Wars "We will watch your career with great interest" :)
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  4. Oh the song I Dunno by Grapes apparently leads to copyright claims now apparently. So perhaps don't use it. I'm sure there are other similar tracks!
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