My perception of Sony is that they sell higher quality products. Sometimes only slightly higher, maybe not enough to offset the price premium if there is one, but I assume all their higher end stuff is top notch.
> but I assume all their higher end stuff is top notch.
From my unscientific sample, yes.
The Sony Master series of OLED TV's (e.g. A9) are IMHO, most likely the best TV you can buy at the moment.
I've seen them side-by-side next to high-end Panasonic kit, and whilst the Panasonics put on a good show compared to your average TV, the high-end Sony's are noticeably better.
The Sony firmware also seems to behave more consistently with HDMI auto-switching than the Panasonics. Sometimes you ended up having to switch manually on the Panasonic because whatever automagic was meant to happen didn't happen.
Those already was only one machines or two, if at all. Also a big issue with arcade games is it's quite expensive (100 to 300 yens per game), especially in comparison to buying occasions.
Most people on the planet don't use ios, and in 2016 when whatsapp had, IIRC about 900 million users was about when they cancelled it. It's fair to assume a lot of people paid that dollar.
If you look back at just HN anecdotes from past threads. The majority of people talk about never paying anything. On any platform. Since again, I was only talking about iOS in my post. But Android “charged” after a year too. So pointing out Android doesn’t change anything
Why did you assume I wasn’t only talking about iOS in my post when I only brought up iOS? I did not even bring up Android. Regardless, most of you’re reply isn’t true.
First, people who talk about iOS maimly charging $1 usually also bring up android charging a dollar after the first free year. Are you only claiming the iOS part? If so. Why ignore the android part?
Why would Facebook, one of the most profitable companies, keep charging a dollar for Whatsapp in 2015 and 2016? They didn’t.
In reality, almost no one on android or iOS paid for Whatsapp. WhatsApp was regularly free on iOs in between stints of being a dollar. On android, almost no one got charged the dollar that came after the purported free trial period.
Why would it be fair to assume a fair amount of people paid for it? The fact that no other app whose success mattered on being viral has successfully followed this strategy would make it fair to assume it did not happen.
If tens upon tens of millions were charged for iOS [and android], is there any thing to back this up? to back this up? WhatsApp was cagey with their private company revenue. OTOH anecdotally on forums like this and others, It’s hard to find too many early WhatsApp users who paid for it.
All my friends in two friends groups were on WhatsApp pre FB buy out. I only remember myself and one other friend in each friend group paying for it.
Similar story post Dotcom crash at my alma mater. There were either 21 or 26 incoming undergrads declared as CS majors. The dean exclaimed that it was great to have them and that they were "the true believers".
Fast forward to now, and there's about 250 incoming CS undergrads without much student body expansion.
I studied Physics but I think if I could do it all again CS would make more sense (in my job I do some CS stuff anyway and zero physics..)
At least in Europe, even Engineering fields (let alone sciences and god forbid, the arts/humanities..) have pretty dismal job prospects compared to CS.
It seems like everyone and their grandmother wants to "learn to code" these days and it really doesn't seem like a sustainable situation.
That said, it's quite a hard field to actually learn enough to be a useful, paid professional so at the moment I'd still say it is the best degree choice.
Redwoods are notoriously water hungry (and thus sometimes out of favor these days as part of landscaping these days), so it would not be surprising to install some help for this one.
