Quote from: Mr Majestyk on February 08, 2024, 02:54:45Scamsung to users. Buy our most expensive gear and we'll give you a top tier SoC, otherwise suckers it's Exynos for the plebs.
They're all doing it though. Google artificially segmenting features like 'night sight video' between pro and non-pro variant even though we already know all it's doing is just connecting to a cloud server to run them algorithms. Qcomm is making their mid-tier SoC's so bad that people are forced to go high end 8 series if you don't wanna feel like you're using a phone from 4 years ago, taking a page from nVidia's playbook. Nvidia's pricing for the vram you get, etc.
Only way to stop it IMO, is through regulatory action via government intervention. Contacting your local representative demanding you want more fair prices during these difficult times. Sorta like what the right to repair movement did for the last few years, how in certain countries there is legislation to ensure that rent / energy utility bills don't just spiral out of control and have a cap or limit in their local markets.
I mean, it really doesn't make any sense that these big companies are posting record profits while laying off thousands of employee's. At the same time they expect us to help pay / subsidize the cost of all the overpriced h100 gpu's they bought from nVidia by buying into their AI subscriptions (looking at you Microsoft, Samsung, Google). I am sorry but what lol? Then give us operating systems on our devices where you can't even stop them from force updating to the next version that oftentimes is an even more buggy, broken piece of mess and sometimes even removes features.
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