On 9/9/2012 11:18 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote:
It is interesting to see the current market trends.
I humbly submit to the court that these trends are not current.
The main advertising points are "14 filter effects, countless creative options" (in my firefox, this ad doesn't show all the steps except the alst one). While just recently it was a race for MegaPixels, now, it's the effects..
It's the Moore's law. Whatever they can extract from increasing computational power, they will. Although "soft" (with controllable low/high setting) effect of my Ricoh GXR does produce some memorable photos from the family album...
In a similar manner, when I was looking at reviews of some smartphones yesterday, I was disappointed that some of them said nothing about quality of calls, while describing in detail camera(s), apps, etc.
When was the last time you were even remotely interested in call quality, sir? May be when Apple dropped the ball with the so called "grip of death". Or was it the ball they dropped intentionally? But no matter, the modern smartphone (or superphone) is practically laptop computer of 10 years ago and mini-laptop computer of 5 years ago. So, ability to make phone calls is, well, how to put it, auxiliary feature...
Speaking of which, my company issue Samsung Galaxy S II sux both in terms of touch quality (I mean, physical response, etc), in terms of dropped calls (my be property of my area and my specific operator) and in terms of battery life. So here you go...
On another hand, personal computers are not sold for their _computational_ power either...
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