You have to wonder about the chain of events that led Samsung to believe this was a good idea.

If I had to guess, it was white women working in an office in New York, rather than Korean men working in Seoul or Chinamen working in Singapore.

There’s just no way that any gook was like “let’s sell them trannies.”

RT:

South Korean electronics giant Samsung has pulled an advertisement that featured a real-life Singapore family, in which the hijab-wearing mother expressed her support for her drag-queen son by hugging him.

They were one of four families that appeared in the ad under the slogan “Listen to your Heart,” which was meant to promote Samsung’s new smart watch. The device has a heart-rate monitor and noise-canceling earbuds.

The ad triggered anger online, with some accusing Samsung of trying to promote LGBTQ ideology and being insensitive to the Islamic faith. According to Singapore’s 2020 census, 15.6% of the country’s population identify as Muslim.

Samsung published a statement online on Wednesday, admitting that the production may be perceived as “insensitive and offensive,” adding that they had removed the video from all public platforms.

“Sorry about trying to do that gay shit on you, folks.”

It’s funny that Asians have IQs equivalent to whites, but they are able to say “oh no, no – none of this weird stuff. Cannot allow.”

Samsung not only pulled the ad – they’re calling copyright on anyone who posts it because they’re trying to make it like they never did this.

This link still has it.

Everybody deserves to be loved and accepted for who they are.

You can watch the ad here. Get the tissues ready.https://t.co/x7aQnswgHv

— Nazeera Nasir 🏴 (@nzranasr) January 21, 2022

The tranny part is only a small part of the ad, which focuses on how Samsung products will bring happiness to all kinds of people.

This will lead to a drop in sales.

If the Chinese were on the ball, they would release an ad with a father beating up his tranny son, and say “products for normal people – we’re not trying to manipulate your moral values, which ain’t none of our business.”

I’ll tell you this: Samsung is now on my boycott list, alongside Gillette and Nike.

I do appreciate that Samsung apologized, but they still did it.

I will remove them from my boycott list when they do a video of Matthew Shepherd burning in hell.

I have it in my mind:

Shepherd is trying to call his mother from hell using a Samsung phone, and it says “no signal.” The voiceover says “we can’t connect you to hell. But the other side is no problem.” Then it shows Meat Loaf in Heaven calling his fans on a Samsung phone, and says “Samsung connects you like a bat out of hell – even from Heaven.”

Apple releasing the iPhone 7S as the iPhone 8 and at the same time releasing the iPhone 8 as the iPhone X was disgusting gimmickry which cheapened their brand. It didn’t become obvious how much so until they released the iPhone X3 as the “iPhone 11.” Up until that point, they could have argued that the X line was a new line of buttonless iPhones which would not be using the regular numbering.

But no.

Rim Cook decided that the “X” was the Roman numeral for “10” and that there simply wasn’t going to be any 9.

This also shows a total lack of forward thinking and corporate brand planning. Because the fact that they were willing to release the 7S as the 8 means that they could have just released the 6S as the 7. If they would have simply dropped the “S” series one model earlier, that would have allowed for the “X” to be the “10.”

(For you Android plebs and weeb weirdos, the “S” was added for the first time with the release of the 4S, and it had become a tradition to release every other model, which usually only had minor upgrades, as an “S.”)

Tim Cock can try to claim that the iPhone 11 is the iPhone 11 because the iPhone XR was the iPhone 10, but “X” is not the Roman numeral for “9.” “IX” is the Roman numeral for “9.”

(Allegedly, due to being called out on their gimmick-mongering, Apple will release an iPhone 8 with no button which will be called the iPhone 9. This information was just leaked this week, and has yet to be confirmed. But all that is is damage control – they are literally releasing a phone that fills no market simply because the gimmickry inspired rage in the consumer.)

This stupid thing was just the latest in the various stupid things that Apple has done since Tim Cooksucker took over after the lunatic marketing genius Steve Jobs had finished working himself to death.

Possibly most egregiously, Cooksucker led the company in a scandal where they were purposefully installing updates on older phones that would slow them down so people would go buy new phones. They also drained the batteries on purpose using software updates (while claiming that the slowing of the phones was to save the battery).

The media claimed that this was “planned obsolescence,” but that term isn’t even applicable. “Planned obsolescence” is a term for products that are designed to stop working after a certain amount of time. The obsolescence of these iPhones was not pre-planned – the phones, which were actually built to last, were sabotaged with software updates designed to make them obsolete because Apple’s only growth strategy is selling infinity phones. When they realized that people were updating their phones less regularly because there was no reason to update from the iPhone 6 – which was peak iPhone, every update after that has basically been cosmetic – they needed to come up with a makeshift plan to render the phones obsolete, and they did so by purposefully slowing them down. So instead of “planned obsolescence,” this should be called “makeshift sabotage for the purpose of product nullification.”

Apparently, the only country in the world where this sort of consumer abuse is illegal was France, because that is the only country whose government sued them over it.

Customers are now suing them over this racket in California, but it is likely that the courts will throw out the cases.

Basically, Apple after Steve Jobs is like Firefox after Brendan Eich (who was pushed out of the company for being a Christian). After Eich was forced to resign, Firefox still worked. But it slowly got crappier over time, until it became useless.

Of course, the situations are slightly different as web browsers need constant complex updates to meet the needs of the entire rapidly changing nature of the internet, whereas Apple’s closed software only needs security and aesthetic updates. The last phone that Steve Jobs worked on was the iPhone 6, which, as stated, was peak iPhone. There isn’t really anything to do now other than remove a button or a headphones jack, because there just isn’t any way to significantly improve the product. So the iPhone hasn’t become useless in the way that Firefox became useless. But the Apple brand is just becoming gross.

Following Apple’s weird “number jump” lead, Samsung decided to call the Galaxy S11 the S20.

However, this is less offensive than what Apple did, because at least they jumped from a multiple of ten to another multiple of ten.

Also, gimmickry is less offensive in general for an Android phone, because everyone knows that the only reason people buy Android phones (other than poverty) is that they are gimmick fetishists. So they’re really just catering to their own user base with more gimmicky bullshit.

Furthermore, Samsung is a gook company, and gooks don’t even have numbers. Just weird symbols.

They didn’t really jump from 10 to 20, they jumped from ship to eeship.

Which makes sense to me.

The age of droids is coming faster and faster.

While most of our attention is focused on industrial robots used to replace human workers, various companies are still working on robotic companions for humans.

At the recent CES fair, Samsung has shown some of what it’s been working on, and it’s pretty interesting.

This is really an impressive look into the near future. These food preparation robotic arms, paired with improved AI and maybe stronger motors, could not only make people’s lives more convenient, but also replace a very large number of human jobs in the restaurant and care industry.

But the thing that’s made most waves is probably their “Ballie” bot.

It’s… a ball.

I’m pretty sure balls are the future.

Engadget:

The first thing I notice when I pick up Ballie is how light it is — it’s about the size of a hefty grapefruit, but much less dense. And Ballie’s plastic, scalloped frame gives this otherwise nondescript ball a sense of playfulness, one that might not have been possible if Samsung had gone with the cloth finish it first considered.

I’m told I’m the only non-Samsung staffer to hold Ballie at CES apart from the mayor of Seoul, though I’m not quite sure if that’s true or just PR bluster. Anyway, it doesn’t matter: Ballie may well represent the future of Samsung’s home robot strategy, and it’s only here because a dozen members of the company’s Think Tank Team (TTT) carefully crafted the prototype you might have seen rolling around on-stage during a keynote address.

As I noted in an earlier story, Samsung has been pretty reticent to offer specific details. We still don’t know whether Samsung is making concrete plans to bring Ballie to market, or how much it could cost if and when that happens, but TTT director Leo Jun filled in a few of the gaps for us.

“This is our first step into personal home robots,” Jun told me. “It’s not just a social robot. It’s actually designed to be a companion, and it’s a little bit different in its interpretation but we think this is very believable.”

Of course, “companion” here is more or less a code word for “child substitute for cat ladies and soyboys.” Or, alternatively, a pet substitute for people too lazy to walk a dog or beat up a cat when it scratches their sofa.

Note: you shouldn’t actually beat up your cat when it scratches your sofa. You should just spray it. With oven cleaner. And then get a dog.

But as far as companions go, Samsung is definitely going in the right direction, which is to abandon the humanoid form factor and instead go in a more abstract direction.

Basically, a “C3P0” vs. “R2D2” design decision.

One of these is a beloved character from my childhood. The other is basically the Jar Jar Binks of the 1970s. I think you all know which is which.

Basically, all humanoid robot companions in movies and TV shows are annoying as hell unless they reach a certain level of sophistication.

That level of sophistication is called “being Brent Spiner.”

Barely not annoying. I’d have one in my home.

Alternatively, it’s also fine if they have a nice set of, uh, eyes.

This also works.

But these other ones?

Why did so many companies try to copy this kind of crap with their commercial home robots?

You know what I’m talking about.

Are they trying to trigger people’s shitty movie PTSD?

It’s clear that abstract, non-humanoid companion robots are way more memorable, charismatic and non-annoying than the weird uncanny valley ones with British accents or goofy personalities.

Case in point.

So I fully support Samsung’s ball-shaped robots that do bloops and bleeps instead of speaking, at a deep philosophical level.

Samsung is no stranger to trotting out robots at big trade shows — just last year, it revealed a trio of service-oriented Bots at CES designed to help manage people’s health care routines, guide customers through stores and, uh, purify air. Those were among Samsung’s first attempts at truly “personal” robots, and you can see how the company tried to give them personalities through human-like characteristics — they have big, blinking eyes rendered on round screens, and two of them had “heads” that swiveled around to look at people and objects. Think Eve from Wall-E, and you’re on the right track.

Ballie is different. It is no way human-like, and for Samsung, devising a way to make a robot ball look and feel like something you’d want to talk to was no small feat. As I mentioned, the original plan was to use a cloth-covered body; that idea was shelved at least partially because realized it might not hold up to certain members of the family.

Ball robots are probably going to become an increasingly common sight over the next few years. Just look at these things:

A ball like this can move in any direction over land and water, with minimal numbers of moving parts and thus with great energy efficiency and durability. So it’s only a matter of time before these are used as surveillance drones both indoors and outdoors, replacing security guards and surveillance patrols.

So, yeah. Balls.

Not as good as a dog. But definitely better than a cat. At least it doesn’t scratch your sofa. Or sleep in your clean laundry.

The smartphone industry is basically over, because the smartphone has peaked. There is literally no qualitative difference between an iPhone 6 and an iPhone XS.

So the only time people are going to be buying phones from here on out is when they drop them.

And they are going to be buying Huawei, because there simply is no reasonable excuse for continuing to charge $900 for old technology.

Apple is attempting to become a luxury brand, but having a new iPhone is not like driving a Ferrari or wearing a Rolex.

You aren’t signaling high status by spending an extra $600 on a cellphone. You’re just signaling that you’re an asshole. Unlike driving a Ferrari or wearing a Rolex, anyone is capable of coming up with the extra $600 for a phone once a year. So unless Apple starts charging tens of thousands for their phones, the status symbol “I paid more money for this because I have a lot of money” element is meaningless.

Tom’s Guide:

Six consecutive quarters. That’s how long the smartphone market has been in decline so far. And market leaders like Apple and Samsung are really feeling the pain. But not Huawei.

On a tear in China but also coming on strong in Europe, Huawei saw 50 percent growth in smartphone sales in Q1 year over year, while Apple plummeted 30 percent, according to IDC. Samsung didn’t struggle as much, but shipments were still down 8 percent, and that was before the Galaxy Fold debacle.

The scary part? Huawei phones aren’t even sold officially in the U.S. This is largely due to security concerns and reported links between Huawei and the Chinese government. Huawei has denied those claims and is suing the U.S. government. And yet Huawei is thriving anyway.

The “security concerns” are just a gigantic hoax. There is zero proof that China is installing spying technology in the current generation of Huawei phones. Even if they wanted to do that, it would be pointless, because they run on Android and every government has the software to remotely hack an Android phone.

Furthermore, the claim that the US government cares about the security of technology is laughable. They refuse to even regulate any element of the tech industry, and these companies sell data to anyone, so the Chinese can just buy whatever information they want.

Then you have the basic question of why the Chinese would even want to spy on the average American citizen.

The reason Huawei is not allowed to be sold in the US is that the government is attempting to thwart the Chinese economically, not militarily.

We are finally witnessing the rise of China as a creator rather than simply a manufacturer.

Despite the political controversy, Huawei has been one of the most innovative smartphone makers over the past few years. For example, in 2016, the Huawei P9 was the first phone co-engineered with Leica with a dual-lens shooter. The Huawei Mate 10 in 2017 was the first phone with an embedded AI chip. And last year’s Huawei Mate 20 Pro was the world’s first phone to offer reverse wireless charging (way before the Galaxy S10).

For its most recent Huawei P30 Pro, the company literally reinvented the smartphone camera, delivering not only a 5x periscope zoom but a super spectrum sensor that delivers incredible low light performance with a crazy-high ISO of 409,600. As a result, the P30 Pro edged out Google’s mighty Pixel 3 in a photo face-off, which has been our best camera phone.

“Apple and Samsung should definitely be worried,” said Avi Greengart, founder and lead analyst for Techsponential. “The perception that a flagship phone has market-leading advances is crucial to the value proposition.”

We all witnessed Korea push out Japan as the key developer of technology.

When was the last time you saw a Sony or a Panasonic television or appliance? It is all LG and Samsung.

Even the Korean cars have replaced Toyota and Honda as the go-to practical vehicle.

So now, you are going to witness China do the same trick, and push Korea out.

Unlike Japan and Korea, China is not a US ally. In fact, the US is obsessed with trying to overthrow and replace the government of China, and is contemplating a literal hot war with them.

What’s more: China is a much bigger country than Japan or Korea, so their conquest of the technology market is going to be much more extreme. And they are going to be able to leverage this economic domination geopolitically in a way that Japan and Korea never had any interest in doing.

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

After Samsung unveiled its revolutionary phone that’s pretty much like their Samsung S9 model but with more screens, more cameras, more RAM, and more batteries, some people are having second thoughts about its price and design.

Daily Mail:

Samsung mesmerized tech junkies around the world on Wednesday when it debuted its long-awaited $1,980 Galaxy Fold smartphone. 

But for many, the radical flexible Fold device may prove to be out of reach, given its astronomical price tag. 

The device is priced at a premium thanks to its custom-designed bendable display, whopping six cameras, two batteries and other high-end components under the hood.

And while Samsung admitted the nearly $2,000 Galaxy Fold isn’t for everyone, that didn’t stop internet users from taking the firm to task for the cost of its ‘premium luxury device.’ 

Several Twitter users who were at the Unpacked event in San Francisco reported there was an ‘audible groan’ when Samsung revealed the Galaxy Fold’s price tag. 

People are also making fun of the fact that the Galaxy Fold looks like two phones taped together. The thing is thick as a brick, and looks like one when folded too.

Prior to the Fold’s unveiling, tech experts and consumers alike complained about Apple’s ever-increasing iPhone prices.

Typically, Apple increases each subsequent iPhone model by about $100 per year, but last year it made a jump of $230, revealing the $1,099 iPhone XS Max one year after debuting the $999 iPhone X.

The move was a shock to even the most loyal Apple consumers.

Now, many are bristling over Samsung raising the price point even higher with the $1,980 Galaxy Fold.

…

And if the Galaxy Fold’s eye-watering price tag isn’t enough, some users are likely to be further put off by the fact that Samsung decided to omit a headphone jack from the device. 

Taking a page from Apple, which ‘courageously’ took away the 3.5mm headphone jack in the iPhone 7, Samsung has now done the same with the Galaxy Fold.

This means users can no longer use a standard pair of headphones with the device and, instead, must purchase wireless Bluetooth headphones or a pair that connects to a Lightning port.

Samsung famously mocked Apple for removing the headphone jack in a 2017 advertisement called ‘Ingenious: Dongle,’ where a fake Apple employee explained to a customer that they’d need a ‘double dongle’ if they wanted to charge their phone and listen to music at the same time.

$2,000 and they removed the headphone jack. Okay. Keep in mind Samsung was probably the only big phone producer whose flagships still rocked the headphone jack.

They mentioned they were going for the “status symbol” thing Apple does, so I guess it makes sense in a twisted kind of way.

The smartphone market right now is a toxic bugmen paradise. Hardware used in 2015 phones is still good today for most people, and the biggest aging factors are batteries and internal storage. Camera hardware hasn’t really improved much, and the biggest gains — such as those from Google’s Pixel camera —  come from the software.

Most people could easily squeeze about 5 years of everyday use out of their smartphones if only batteries would hold for that long, which is a big part of the reason why smartphone makers decided to go for non-removable batteries (and why Apple released software updates to purposefully drain the batteries of older phones). They don’t want people giving extra years of life to their phones by just buying a new battery.

Think of all the perfectly functional phones that are thrown away each year just because newer models came along. Think about all that wasted hardware.

It’s insane.

Wouldn’t it be better for the planet and for ourselves to make smartphones that could be repaired and upgraded?

There’s been some attempts at that, such as the Fairphone.

From the Fairphone website:

We’ve created the world’s first ethical, modular smartphone. You shouldn’t have to choose between a great phone and a fair supply chain.

But they haven’t picked up much steam.

What we have right now are phones being sold as disposable devices that you can use for some months or a year before you’re expected to just throw it in the trash can and move on to the newer model.

It’s not sustainable.

Sooner or later, that business model will have to change, and seeing how the Galaxy Fold may flop, that moment may come sooner rather than later.

Welcome to the $2k smartphone era. Samsung’s Galaxy Fold is coming in April for $1980. #SamsungEvent pic.twitter.com/bJoUaui70n

— Geoffrey A. Fowler (@geoffreyfowler) February 20, 2019

It finally happened! The Koreans finally did it.

Smartphones are no longer rehashes of previous models. Current year smartphones are no longer pretty much the same as last year’s.

Customers are no longer going to be paying for the same thing with a different build aesthetic.

The next smartphone revolution is here.

AP:

Samsung unveiled a highly anticipated smartphone with a foldable screen in an attempt to break the innovation funk that has beset the smartphone market.

But it’s far from clear that consumers will embrace a device that retails for almost $2,000, or that it will provide the creative catalyst the smartphone market needs.

The Galaxy Fold, announced Wednesday in San Francisco, will sell for $1,980 when it is released April 26.

Consumers willing to pay that hefty price will get a device that can unfold like a wallet. It can work like a traditional smartphone with a 4.6 inch screen or morph into something more like a mini-tablet with a 7.3 inch screen.

NOW PHONES CAN FOLD!!!

THIS IS 2006 NOW BABY FUCK YEAH BEHOLD THE REVOLUTION!!

Err… wrong picture.

This is the Samsung Galaxy Fold:

Welcome to the future.

When fully unfolded, the device will be able to simultaneously run three different apps on the screen. The Galaxy Fold will also boast six cameras: three in the back, two on the inside and one on the front.

After spending nearly five years developing the technology underlying its foldable-screen phone, Samsung is clearly hoping for a big payoff.

“Get ready for the dawn of a new era,” declared DJ Koh, who oversees Samsung’s smartphone division. The new phone, he said, “answers skeptics who said everything has already been done.”

If Samsung is right, the Galaxy Fold will spur more people to upgrade their phones. Overall smartphones sales peaked in 2017 ; Samsung saw its smartphone sales fall 8 percent last year, based on estimates from the research firm International Data Corp. Worldwide, smartphone sales dropped 4 percent in 2018, according to IDC.

Give at least a couple of seconds to the thought of Samsung spending five years and who knows how much money to develop something that has no real pragmatic benefit. Do you see how rotten the smartphone business is?

Samsung also released new Galaxy S10 phones that echo the features in other recent models. Each device in the S10 lineup boast fancy cameras, sleek screens covering the entire front of the devices and at least 128 gigabytes of storage — important features to consumers shopping for phones.

Samsung Galaxy S10

The new phones are able take wider-angle shots than previous models and can charge other devices, including wireless headphones and smartwatches. A fourth S10 model, due out this spring, will have faster wireless speeds through the emerging 5G cellular network.

Huawei was already doing that with their 2018 phones.

Samsung is offering a slightly smaller S10 model for $750 in an attempt to make smartphones more affordable, but the higher-end models sell for $900 and $1,000. It’s the second time in the past five months that a leading smartphone maker has positioned a $750 phone as a frugal option. Apple also priced its cheapest new phone, the iPhone XR, released last fall at $750. Other smartphone makers gaining market share, including China’s Huawei and Xiaomi, make smartphones that sell for $500 or less, as well as high-end models.

Two of Samsung’s new models, the S10 and the S10 Plus, are largely incremental upgrades of last year’s S9 and S9 Plus, although they are designed differently. They are about the same size as last year’s models, but will have more display space, as Samsung found additional ways to eliminate waste around the edges. As a byproduct, the top right of the display has a circle or oval cut out for the front-facing cameras.

The lowest-priced “essentials” model, the S10e, has most of the same features, but is 5 percent smaller than the S10 in volume. The S10e also lacks curved edges, a signature feature for many Samsung phones.

All three S10 models will come out March 8, with pre-orders starting Thursday.

As you can see, this year’s smartphones are going to be pretty much the same as last year’s… like it happened last year.

Here are the main differences in 2019 Samsung flagships compared to last year’s:

• Front camera is now a tiny hole in the screen, allowing for bigger screens in phones similar in size to last year’s
• They now have more cameras
• Bigger battery capacity
• There are different versions of the flagship with different prices
• One of their flagships can fold
• The fingerprint sensor is in the front now, inside the screen
• They are more expensive
• Samsung is going for a “status symbol” thing
• More RAM
• More storage

The bigger battery is obviously welcomed, but the biggest one they appear to be going to use is 4,500 mAh which is nothing revolutionary. Huawei flagships were already sporting 4,000 mAh years ago. They’re likely going to put the 4,500 mAh battery in the Galaxy Fold, their most expensive model.

The battery won’t last longer, because the phone is more resource intensive.

Samsung Galaxy S10 colors.

More cameras… whatever. Some will appreciate the wide-angle thing.

The fingerprint reader being on the front right under the screen is a nice change, yes, I mean… all of these are more or less nice changes, but why should anyone pay for that if they already have a Samsung S9 or S8?

Fingerprint reader of the Samsung Galaxy S10.

But wait.

Do you like bricks?

Because the Galaxy Fold looks and feels like a brick.

Skip to 3:38 to see it in action.

Pretty thick, huh? As you can see, it’s going to cost $2,000 because it’s practically two phones joined together with an additional folding screen slapped in their backs.

But it’s a status symbol.

It makes a statement.

The trend so far was to just add more cameras, but Samsung kicked it up a notch and now they’re adding more screens too.

So… what do you say?

Do you want your phone to have more cameras and more screens?

…and to cost $2,000?

Apple has based their entire business model around selling unlimited amounts of iPhones. This strategy is failing so now they’re claiming climate change is going to help them with sales.

Apple has put out a report claiming that they are going to be able to sell more iPhones because of climate change. How can anybody believe that Apple is run by serious people when they issue statements like this?

Business Insider:

The dangers of climate change – from rising sea levels to more frequent droughts – are expected to have a devastating impact on society.

For Apple, a changing climate could also mean increased customer loyalty and demand for iPhones.

That’s one of the conclusions in a report Apple produced about its business, which was published on Tuesday by CDP, a nonprofit that collects information from companies about their environmental impact.

Apple is among numerous large companies, including Walt Disney Co and Bank of America, to provide similar reports to the organization identifying “climate-related” risks and opportunities with the potential to materially impact its business.

The surprisingly detailed report includes items about risks, opportunities, and the specific personnel at the company overseeing Apple’s environmental program. Apple confirmed that the answers were submitted on behalf of Apple and that the report is voluntary and isn’t required by a government regulator. While the estimates are based on public information, the report offers an interesting assessment of how Apple views the impact of climate change on its business.

They also claim that because you can use the iPhone as a flashlight that this will contribute to additional iPhone sales.

Another eye-opening opportunity that Apple identified in the report is that increased severe weather events could increase the demand for iPhones.

“Mobile devices can serve as the backbone communication network in emergency and quasi-emergency situations,” Apple wrote. “They can serve as a flashlight or a siren; they can provide first aid instructions; they can act as a radio; and they can be charged for many days via car batteries or even hand cranks. Over time, as people begin to experience severe weather events with greater frequency, we expect an increasing need for confidence and preparedness in the arena of personal safety and the well-being of loved ones.”

This is all completely insane. Other brands of smartphones have had these capabilities for awhile now. There are various flashlight apps you can use for the Android operating system as an example. And this is not a new thing. It is also quite humorous to see them talk about how mobile devices can be charged for days when Apple deliberately conspired to make the battery on older iPhone models drain faster. They did this to get people to buy new iPhones. The scandal dubbed “batterygate” resulted in 32 lawsuits against them.

Samsung, Huawei and other smartphone manufacturers are all putting out products that have capabilities that are at least on par with the latest iPhone models. In some cases you could argue that their products are superior. Many of these smartphones are also much cheaper.

So what reasons do people have to buy a new iPhone? At this point, you’re just buying it for the brand. You aren’t buying it for functionality or any other tangible purpose. You certainly aren’t buying it because of changing weather.

This is a desperate attempt by Apple to make people believe that they will be able to sell unlimited amounts of iPhones. But climate change itself is a proven hoax designed to push scams like carbon taxes on White people. So what they’re really claiming is that they can sell unlimited numbers of iPhones because of normal weather related events. No sane person is going to believe such a ridiculous claim.

Looks like Apple is preparing to release three new iPhone models in 2019 none of which will have any significant or substantive improvements over previous iPhone models.

New reports about Apple’s plans for 2019 have started to leak in the media. Despite declining iPhone sales, it doesn’t appear as if Apple’s sexually impaired CEO Tim Cook has gotten the message. They’re apparently getting ready to launch three new iPhone models in 2019. Even mainstream news and blog sites are saying that this is a completely retarded and stupid thing to do.

CCN:

Apple could be en route to replicating the same mistakes it made in 2018 which ultimately led to a 10 percent stock price plunge on January 4.

According to a report released by The Wall Street Journal, Apple is planning to release three iPhone models in 2019. The problem is that many loyal customers of Apple are not compelled to upgrade to newer models because of the strong performance and specifications of previous models.

Apple has not officially disclosed its plans to release three new models in 2019. But, if it does pursue the development of new iPhone models, following a lackluster reception of the iPhone XS and XR, it may spell trouble for the already struggling $720 billion giant.

This week, Chinese retailers have started to sell the iPhone XR model with a 17.1 percent discount, slashing its price from $1,036 to $858, due to a lack of demand for newly released iPhone models.

While Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, attributed the company’s poor performance in the fourth quarter of 2018 to the potential tension between China and the U.S., analysts have said that the trade war and the decline of the Chinese economy had minimal impact on the sales of iPhone.

(He basically just named a random Donald Trump-related event. He could just as easily have blamed the end of the war in Syria. Maybe he will next year.)

Rather, local analysts have reported that the demand for cheaper alternatives such as Huawei that match the specifications of the iPhone has started to increase rapidly.

The magic of Apple in previous years was its ability to revolutionize design and technologies in mobile phones to manufacture next-generation smartphones. As the growth curve of the mobile phone sector plateaued, it has become challenging for mobile phone manufacturers to differentiate newer models from previous models and drive consumers.

The Daily Stormer has been way ahead of the curve on this story. We’ve written multiple articles criticizing Apple’s strategy of force feeding new iPhone models on to the general public year after year.

This writer penned a 2017 article criticizing Apple’s launch of a new iPhone with a $1,000 price tag.

Anglin has also written numerous articles criticizing Apple’s recent business practices. That includes a 2016 article rightly criticizing Apple’s iPhone 7 for having a total lack of tangible features over the iPhone 6.

It’s gotten to the point where Huawei, Samsung and other smartphone manufacturers have been able to replicate if not improve the most important features of the iPhone. There’s not a whole lot more that can be done with this technology.

One of the big rumors is that the largest of these new iPhone models will have three cameras. But LG has has already come out with a smartphone model that has five cameras. So at this point, Apple can’t even be considered the leading innovator in the space.

But even if Apple came out with an iPhone that had ten cameras, is that something the average smartphone user is going to need or want? All they’re doing now is recycling existing technology but repackaging it with slightly different aesthetics and sizes. The functional improvements being offered don’t have much if any practical purpose to the average person.

The smartphone has been a commodity product for awhile now and the only person who doesn’t seem to understand that fact is this stupid Cook faggot running Apple. He’s literally going to drive Apple into the ground by trying to sell an infinite amount of overpriced iPhones.

Yes.

The era of paying $800 for a new phone every year is definitely over.

The only replacements from anyone normal at this point are going to be after drops or because of planned obsolesce battery-drain conspiracies.

CNBC:

Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that its fourth-quarter earnings likely decreased sharply due to lackluster demand in its memory chip business as well growing competition in the smartphone segment.

The South Korean tech giant predicted operating profit for the three months ended December was approximately 10.8 trillion Korean won ($9.67 billion) — or 28.71 percent down from a year ago.

The figure missed market expectations, coming in 18.18 percent less than the 13.2 trillion won that analysts had predicted after factoring in the weakness in the semiconductor market. The expected average was already significantly lower than Samsung’s third-quarter operating profit of 17.57 trillion won and below the 14.87 trillion netted in the June quarter.

Consolidated sales for the fourth-quarter is predicted to be around 59 trillion won, lower than the 62.8 trillion won analysts predicted in a Reuters poll, and 10.57 percent down from a year ago.

I think both Apple and Samsung are lying about how much their sales are going to drop.

Actually, Samsung might not be, because a 10% drop in total profits is for them not a huge drop in phone sales.

Because unlike Apple, they were smart enough to make a bunch of things people want to buy, instead of following an “infinity cellphones forever lol” business model created by the cocksucker Rim Cook.

Samsung:

Compare to Apple:

Although I don’t know what percentage of those semiconductors Samsung is selling to Apple, lol.

Really stupid for Apple not to make their own parts. And their own other stuff. People would have bought an entire range of IOT products from Apple if they’d have made them. And paid their 40% premium for putting their logo on it.

They could have just bought appliances from Samsung and put their logo on them.

It really is an amazing failure that Tim Cock has committed. It will go down in history as an utter disaster, destroying what was once the biggest company in the world by refusing to respond to a changing marketplace and instead simply trying to bully people into buying the same cellphone over and over with scams and marketing hoaxes.

And he can’t be removed.

Because he sucks cocks.

And he sucks kikes.

How is this not an act of war?

How is it that these South Koreans can bomb America relentlessly, over a period of years, and get away with it with total impunity?

They sell us these booby-trapped phones, charging us a fortune, and then just blow us the hell up at their convenience.

Unacceptable.

Cnet:

A woman from Detroit said her Samsung phones caught fire and destroyed her car.

I’m sure it’s a “total accident.”

The woman told ABC 7 that a Samsung Galaxy S4 and a Galaxy S8 were in the car’s cupholder while she was driving on the morning of May 21, when one of them sparked and then caught fire. She pulled over and escaped as the car was swallowed by flames. She asked to remain anonymous, but reports from the Detroit Fire Department verified her claims, according to ABC 7.

South Korean terrorism won’t stop until we invade and occupy their country – fact.

The woman’s attorney, Gerald Thurswell, told ABC 7 that they contacted Samsung and the company sent a crew to examine the remains.

Presumably, Samsung’s engineers need to examine the wreckage so they can adjust the explosive yields in future versions of their phones, so as to maximize the damage.

Sick!

Thurswell didn’t immediately respond to request for comment.

This wouldn’t be the first time a Samsung phone has exploded. The company recalled its Galaxy Note 7 twice last year because of batteries catching fire. The phone was even banned on flights. The Galaxy S4 and S8 aren’t currently on any recall list.

They ALL need to be put on the “recall list” – whatever that is. What I’m saying is, all Samsung phones need to be banned from the US.

Imagine if this guy’s dick would have been blown off.

How many victims will it take before our government takes action?

“We stand behind the quality and safety of the millions of Samsung phones in the US,” a Samsung representative said in an email statement. “We are eager to conduct a full investigation of this matter and until we are able to examine all of the evidence, it is impossible to determine the true cause of any incident.”

That’s like running someone over, repeatedly, and then saying “oh, it’s terrible, I’ll conduct a full investigation to get to the bottom of this accident.”

So dishonest.

If these South Koreans won’t make non-exploding phones for us, we can just get other Koreans to do it. Kim Jong-Un is a total bro, and I’m sure that if these upcoming talks go well, we could work out a deal where he could supply us with all the Korean phones we ever need.

Hey – it could happen.

But wow. If you can’t buy new Apple phones, because they suck, and you can’t buy Samsung phones, because they explode, what are we supposed to get? Chink phones?

This is a disaster.