A nice thought.
Unfortunately the only ones who switch will be people 1. Know that it is even possible to switch/that they have an option to switch, and 2. Have the technical knowledge to back up their data, then download and install Linux, that 3. Don't have to run Windows for other reasons and/or haven't already switched.
Unfortunately with all three qualifiers you aren't left with a giant number. Certainly no mass exodus.
Problem is that Samsung is like Apple- a shitton of people just blindly buy the latest Samsung whatever with zero research.
So you have a bunch of other companies trying to stand out in one way or another- Motorola for example just released a phone that brings back the 3.5mm headphone jack. And you have a ton of cheap Chinese companies that may or may not offer any software support after purchase but have interesting form factors.
That makes it hard for the little guys to get the kind of sales volume needed to justify the development and tooling for a really cool flagship phone.
Personally while phones today are far more capable, I think phone designs peaked in the mid 2000s. Mainly because you had actual innovation in design-- wildly different form factors. There were a few phones that flipped open like a laptop with a physical keyboard, a handful that slid open to reveal a blackberry-style keyboard, many had SDIO ports or other ability to clip on expansion modules, etc. Phones had fun features- there was one that could do an early 'google pay' type thing by pulsing a magnetic field to pretend to be a magnetic credit card stripe for a swipe reader. A lot of the early Samsung phones had IR blasters so you could turn TVs on and off. There were a couple designed for gaming that were laid out like a game pad. Manufacturers weren't afraid to experiment and the result was some really cool stuff.
Sadly that's all gone today. HTC (which made many of those cool phones) was driven out of the market by Apple and Samsung, so now virtually all phones are identical flat bricks.
I see a glimmer of hope with flip phones and foldables, but not much. They're all just excuses to
Exactly. If this is stealing from shareholders to pay customers, it's because the original fees were stealing from customers to pay shareholders.
FSD has routinely plowed into children, emergency vehicles etc.
You are using this word 'routinely', but I do not think that it means what you think it means.
Can you give me, say, 10 incidents of this? Of a Tesla confirmed to be on FSD driving full speed into a child, emergency vehicle, etc?
FSD used to 'routinely' be overly cautious and slow down when not necessary, but I don't think it's driving into things.
I'd also point out the driver remains responsible for the car and an eye movement camera prevents distracted driving, but I digress.
Other companies have implemented these more limited systems (that often include better sensors such as lidar) not because they can’t do it but rather because they are more cautious about brazenly lying to people about the capabilities of their system.
Other companies simply have less capable systems.
If I go and buy a current product Tesla, I can have it drive me home and chances are I won't have to touch any controls. In a few cases, new production Teslas literally deliver themselves to the new owner's driveway. Can any other automaker say the same?
I don't think MS is out of touch with what the customer wants, I think they just stopped listening.
The fact is nobody is asking for this stuff.
I think the hope is that they build it anyway and then people will use/want it. AI is the big buzzword of the decade, just like 'cloud' was the big buzzword of last decade.
And if he's flying at Mach 2, there's probably a fuckton of wind noise against the helmet. Which means he's probably listening way too loud. Same problem.
It's a bunch of crap. In fact, modern headphones can if anything help protect your hearing.
The thing that damages your hearing is sound level. Doesn't matter if it's from a speaker to inches away or 20 ft away, what matters is the sound pressure level that arrives at your eardrum.
The problem with headphones is many people turn them up to drown out outside noise. To get it loud enough that you actually can't hear the surrounding noise, it's pretty loud. That is what causes hearing damage, not the fact that it is headphones. It would be no different if you put speakers and turned it up loud enough to drown out the noise.
I say modern headphones can help because a lot of modern headphones have noise canceling. Thus, reducing the ambient noise level means you don't feel a need to turn up the volume as high.
Significantly changed. Even in the last few months. I would encourage you to go do a test drive. Night and day from the type of experience you have.
The driver monitoring now uses a camera. If you are looking at the road, it doesn't ask you to jerk the wheel at all.
Speed control is much more organic and considers turns, hills, etc.
The machine vision on the cameras is different as well, it uses a processing technique called occupancy networks to produce 3D data out of the 2D camera images.
The one concern is you list speed in km, the current full self-driving software is not available in all countries and may not be available in yours, which might mean if you do a test drive you are still on the same very basic system you had before.
The core issue, IMHO, is a mixture of lack of critical thinking and intellectual laziness, reinforced by algorithms and echo chambers. You see it in almost any contentious debate these days, including things like politics, but it's pretty much everywhere.
Whatever my opinion is, various algorithms will figure that out and feed me a solid stream of crap that agrees with me because that's what I will click on and engage with. Every time I see an article that reinforces my opinion it gives me a little hit of dopamine that I am right and so I conclude that I am right and everybody smart agrees with me because my position is obviously the right one.
Meanwhile the guy on the other side of the issue has the exact same experience and thus is convinced that he is right and everybody smart agrees with him.
Combine this with an educational system that is teaching the test rather than teaching to think, and the very simple thought process of 'what if I'm wrong? What if I don't have all the details?' simply doesn't occur in an awful lot of people.
Elon Musk is a perfect example. A few years ago, he was a genius eccentric billionaire working to make the planet a better place with green technology and electric cars. Then he joined up with Trump, and suddenly he is a fraudster using Daddy's money to bully his way into companies and taking credit for their success. The rockets are bad, the cars are bad, the tunnels are bad, the brain chip is bad, and all these things always were bad from the beginning because it's easier to retcon than to acknowledge your position changed because of politics.
The fact is, in this age of information there is really no good excuse for ignorance. The information is always out there, if you put even a little effort into finding it. Yes it requires waiting through a lot of crap and slop, But it's out there. And as you say you can just head down to your local dealer and ask for a test drive, and then you have real empirical data to base an argument on. Not that anyone would do that, because to them, their opinion is just as valid as my first hand experience.
Consider the difference between supervision and intervention.
All production Teslas need human supervision, this is enforced with driver monitoring systems as a safety procedure. But the current versions of FSD, released in the last few months, can often navigate through most or all driving situations without human intervention. So the computer will make sure you are paying attention, but will in most cases execute the drive perfectly without making mistakes that require the human to take over.
There's plenty of videos on YouTube check some of them out :)
Absolutely. Moral rights? Rights of respect? This is taking a giant leap down a very slippery slope. I am sure whoever came up with this had their heart in the right place. Doesn't mean this doesn't lead somewhere awful.
So, the AI chief dude is saying he doesn't understand why people don't want AI.... do they even read their own docs?
Here's what I see happening, probably very soon when this AI thing is released: Some malware developer writes an 'AI installer' that activates this thing, sets itself up as an AI on your PC, passes through whatever query you have to free ChatGPT, and then uses AI access to steal all your stuff or track you. Because if the AI model has access to your data, so does any support code related to that model.