bing/chatgpt is already known to give false citations and not understand time in its reply, why are we thinking that its reply about its design is anything to be believed?
That made me wonder:
- Why does it seem like Japanese manufacturers are the only ones making "different" phones?
- Many other threads are talking about the lack of components and lack of component manufacturer interest, but if so, how did the Japanese manufacturers did it?
- What is special about the Japanese market that allows these phones to survive?
- What difficulty would there be for let's say Rakuten to sell their phones internationally just like Sony did?
A few points of relevant observation:
- Japanese consumer electronics manufacturers have a habit of keeping their best products only to Japan - such as DSLRs.
- There is a strong customer base for mini devices in Japan. GPD pocket laptops are in regular stores.
More local small models: Balmuda phone, mode1 GRIP.
For Sharp, they are also OLED/Camera CMOS manufacturer so maybe it's easier to make custom one (and it's one of a purpose to have own factory).
Japan mobile careers buy much amount of devices at launch from manufacturer, that helps for constant sales. Even if sales for customers is bad, it's already sold for career.
This is definitely something that should be fixed by the vendor, but as a (Firefox) user if you want a quick fix you can use https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js
In the interview concerns of government over-control did turn up, but it wasn't well addressed I think. The journalist skipped this part in the published article.
ownCloud Music app (https://github.com/owncloud/music) contributor here, I integrated Aurora.js with owncloud music app, and created a compatibility layer for Aurora.js and SoundManager2 (https://github.com/owncloud/music/pull/416). Audiocogs's ogg.js doesn't work, so I use browser's built-in decoder via SoundManager instead.
And Aurora.js' doesn't seem to be maintained anymore, I tried very hard to make it build, finding that the build scripts was intended to work on OSX (version unclear), but the developer never mentions it. And even if it builds, the result doesn't really work, Aurora.js, ogg.js, flac.js, alac.js... none of them, as far as I remember.
So actually in the owncloud music app we just downloaded the built js files from the demo site :-p
It leaves me great ponder after reading the comments. After all, is "being kind" the general rule? Should it be a general rule? Or is it just an attitude towards certain kinds of personality (or the belief by people who have these personalities)?
Recently read about the 16 personality types of psychology http://www.16personalities.com/personality-types, I guess Boz is more of a "debater", like myself, who doesn't care much about the attitudes, instead we focus on the idea itself that is being conveyed, to fully understand it, and to dig out all implications and foundations.
The article seems to encourage us to become more like the "diplomats", to understand people's feelings.
Should I change? should we change? or should we just "be kind" to the sensitive people, and be ourself, ie. direct, honest but probably not kind, around other people?
The doubt I have on being kind boils down to overhead, it leaves a huge hole to misinterpretations, and just as people say in the comments, sometimes people see your kindness as unimportance.
For myself, I'd rather be offended then to be "protected by (mis)interpretations" of others on me. I hate to find out people specially crafting their speech in order to convince me. I am intelligent and mature enough to seperate the attitudes and the ideas of speech.
Nevertheless, I do see the value of what's Boz suggesting, I guess being kind is maybe an overstatement, instead, being thoughtful is more conservative, and thus, a more general rule.
