Yes exactly, people can do all that and MORE whiles their nose is glued to the phone while driving down the road causing accidents (which happened to me and my family with our New SUV with less then 2,000 miles on vehicle stopped at a red light. A teenager rear ended us while he was texting), or walking while running into something, someone or tripping over something. A good majority holding a smart phone to their nose pay NO attention to what's happening around them.
They did in the early days. My Droid 2 had a 3.7 inch screen. Easier to carry. Harder to use. I get the biggest one I can these days. I still don't use most of the functionality though. Mostly for calls and text. I use google maps occasionally to check traffic. If you're still a holdout on smart phones do so as long as you can. I know it listens to everything I say.
A real problem here. I see this all the time. Someone texting, I've even seen drivers watching movies. Motorcycle drivers too, texting while trying to control the bike. I got rear ended by a truck (small one) at a slow speed. His front bumper had all sorts of dings in it, just a scratch on my rear bumper (Mitsubishi Adventure). It was a truck from a repair contractor for an ISP here. I know the owner of that company. The driver was duly worried. We let it go, I'm not worried about that scratch, plus involving the police would ruin both our days.
@ProTruckDriver @chrisretusn But this is not a problem of smart phones themselves. It's like blaming guns for being able to shoot.
Writing regular length e-mail with small ammount of formatting isn't fast nor fun on a smartphone. Smartphone can be handy as a plan B when network fails and you can't join meeting from laptop. Or giving notice to team or manager that you will be even later that day because doctor appointment was delayed etc
This likely changed, but Dell had in the past deals with Foxconn too. I don't know whether US prices of Dell are competitive, but in Europe they seem to be one of most expensive computer brands. I am not only talking about consumer laptops, but also servers dedicated for enterprises. About year, maybe year and a half, ago I heard at work from person responsible for some purchase decisions that HPE servers with similar CPU power were significantly cheaper than Dell servers. The only reason to not go fully HPE at that time was that some important software was only guaranteed to work on certain Dell models. We're talking about very niche software that needs to maintain low-latency under heavy data load - not a use-case most enterprises need to worry about. Certainly not at latency levels set that low. Now I read this about Dell: https://www.itpro.com/business/business-strategy/dell-australia-fined-by-regulators-over-misleading-device-discount-tactics Dell Australia fined by regulators over ‘misleading’ device discount tactics It doesn't seem to me that Dell is so innocuous and well priced, at least outside US.
Servers and high end units like Alienware devices likely have a very high profit margin. It's the low end consumer class stuff that you would pick up at Best Buy or Walmart that beings in far less profit.
I meant mid-range Dell consumer laptops. I am not sure which price range affected Australians picked, but they were scammed by Dell which is bad no matter what.
I don't have any issues with Apple products, that being said, the only apple product I will ever own is what I can get in a bakery.
