Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Samsung removes headphone jack, takes down commercials mocking Apple for removing headphone jack" video.

  1. We are unfortunately running out of options in this day and age of mass production commoditization market logic. To the point I really dunno what phone I'd get next, even though we are practically swimming in brands and models of smartphones these days. Flagships are right out for me. It's just plain unjustifiable to charge anywhere close to a thousand bucks for a phone. Not if you think logically about your phone, and how you use it. A baseline gaming laptop these days cost that much, and there are plenty capable phones for 1/4th that price. Like, really, just think about it. With a $1000 bucks you can get a pretty decent 15" touchscreen ultrabook with baseline 1050TI discrete graphics that is several times more powerful than a smartphone. How did we get to this point? Now, I would pay $1000 bucks for a phone if Google stopped worrying about cannibalization of their precious Chrome OS and Chromebook line, and made a feature like DeX or EMUI Desktop Mode a standard instead of a proprietary thing, which would make your smartphone basically a portable desktop device. Because that would add value to it. Lately though, the industry has been going the exact opposite direction. Removing useful things, locking features behind proprietary walls, and "innovating" on useless cosmetic crap. This is exactly why, since I got my first smartphone, that I'm going on 3 years with my phone already. Before that I was replacing every one or two years tops. Because I see nothing of real balanced value in newer phones. It's all bullshit after bullshit after bullshit. Blah blah bezel less, blah blah camera notch, blah blah under glass fingerprint scanner... it's all, for me, 3D TV over and over again. I don't care about any of this shit. I wanna know what new features a smartphone has that is useful for me in my everyday life. Seems like we're trapped into this paradigm of vapid shit and cosmetics. Back on topic though, I personally never had a Samsung phone and I see it pretty much as second place when it comes to fanboyism, stupid decisions, and bucking the trend downwards - sorry fans. Like Rossman already said, this isn't the first time this happened, and Samsung has a pretty patchy history which made me stay away from the brand. Initially, I didn't like their skinned Android version... Touchwiz, was it? It was heavy and bloated, Samsung phones were always slower in comparison to other phones with similar specs. It has become better, but I think Samsung phones are still not great in this matter. Samsung also tried to build their own walled garden ecossystem for quite a while. They are often unrepetant about it too. Overpriced accessories, all sorts of Samsung branded crap (store, browser, app, etc), and now the entire DeX thing. Bixby, Tizen, all things that point to a company philosophy that just doesn't work for me. And then there was the entire Note 7 debacle, which people forgot about pretty quickly. The ads are just the icing in the cake. In this case, they are removing ads attacking Apple for something they just also did. But Samsung also has a history of sexist creepy ads, out of touch marketing campaigns, and a whole bunch of other crap. Now, to be fair, there are two things that I liked about Samsung - one is their investment in camera tech up until recently, and two is how at least their flagship phones always seems to implement the USB port up to full specs. Aaand that's about it for me, which just isn't enough. It's just amazing how paralized the smartphone market has become. With so many brands and models, you'd think there would at least be a handful of models trying to do stuff differently. But nope, even brands that were investing on some different ideas have turned to either gimmicky crap (LG V series) or just caved in to become another clone of other brands (OnePlus). It's just sad all around. Specially because there is much more that could be done in terms of hardware and software for smartphones. Just that no one is trying to really innovate on usability ideas.
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