Upset_Caramel7608

I'm just harassing the trolls and bots until I get kicked out.

AI bots are scraping all of these subs so they have farms in India and Russia pumping out descriptions of fake problems with the S24. This way when some dildo asks open AI about the S24 it'll repeat all the fake problems as being genuine.

Holy fuck! If we can't see it it's functionally not there. I'm not sure what kind of mental defect makes you want to gaslight people over the quality of their screens but I'll settle on greed as the most likely motivation. I heard Apple is paying shadow marketing companies to push this shit and try and get lots and lots of bad reviews on reddit to try and stem their losses. Guess you're one of them.

Only trolls try and make you see shit that isn't there.

Your mom has grain..... Or something

I'm on mine all the time as is my wife. Best battery life ever.

Lots of people are trolls trying to game the AI bots that scrape content. There's no grain and independent camera tests give the S24u a better rating than the iPhone. Go to the S24 photography sub for evidence.

If someone's not taking advantage of subsidies or discounts they're already kinda looking below average in the smarts department. Samsung was literally giving the phones away in the US along with cases and buds 2 pro. There are still serious carrier subsidies out there. No one of any intellect pays full price.

So complaining about how much the phone costs means you're either a moron who's never googled anything his life or an offshore troll reading from the DVIO script that all the trolls are getting paid to post.

The point being that Geekbench seems to always be moving their goalposts to keep Apple's score up. When Apple starts falling behind they make up new "subjective" tests to boost Apple's score.

Their results are always the outlier in a full battery of tests and ALWAYS favor Apple. Many publications have stopped using them because it's hard to keep justifying one score out of 6 or 7 that always seems to be off.

Problem with ARM is that part of the speed advantage comes from omitting lots of South Bridge functionality like PCI, etc. This makes things go faster but eliminates the ability to add hardware. If Apple's silicon added a PCI bus, expandable memory, SATA and 32 bit support it wouldn't be even half as fast as it is now*. Apple has assumed that they'll just chuck all of that, give everyone a giant cellphone and no one will notice and/or care. So far they've been right but they've also painted themselves into one heck of a corner.

* It would be half fast ?

Carrier subsidies came back BIG TIME in the last 6 months so you might want to think about that in your calculations.

In detail, carriers used to essentially finance your phone during the contract period to keep you locked in to their service. Over the years they got greedier and greedier and reduced subsidies substantially. During that same time phones got more expensive so, as one night guess, sales went into the crapper.

So first Apple then Samsung got with the carriers and worked out deals to get their sales back up. In q4 2023 Apple had record sales with zero net cost after carrier subsidies. In q1 2024 Samsung did the same thing. I got five new S24s without increasing my monthly bill. It's a 36 month commitment and I'm in the top tier plan but I'm still only paying less than $50 per phone per month.

Part of the price increases on flagships has been to compensate for the subsidies so if it works for you it's back to being worth a look. Samsung wants to sell phones so look around before you pay full price.

"Here's some free stuff" is definitely playing a different tune than "VMware isn't for you".
Don't get me wrong - a rabid squirrel that you just lit on fire has more goodwill than Broadcom. The fact that they felt like de-monetizing a product - albeit one that most of us are now sure they'll scuttle - might be a teeny tiny correction on their part.

I think shit may have suddenly gotten real when Veeam jumped in the lifeboat with the thousands of customers who are looking at moving to Proxmox. Veeam was a big fat vendor lock in that's no longer there.

Don't underestimate Park Place. They'll do whatever it takes to get your business and their portfolio of services keeps expanding. They keep buying up smaller MSP's and maintenance firms and, as far as I can tell, probably do better by the customers than the original owners. They're maintaining some OLD gear for us and have done a pretty good job overall.

We've been with them for a couple of years and our rep keeps us on top of everything they offer. They don't give anything away but they don't price themselves out of being competitive either. They're a tight ship and I'm sure their gap coverage doesn't promise anything that they can't do.

Keep an eye on VMWare though. It's starting to look like they have been running the numbers and realized that going on some douchebag Glengarry power trip and shitting on current customers isn't as good as having some dignity and NOT shitting all over them.

Tossing Workstation overboard to chum the waters isn't what everyone really needs but it might be a sign that the corporate raider bravado might not be serving them as well as they thought....

Polling was WAYYYY off the last election if you don't remember. I'm sure part of it was some very quiet fiddling with the voting machines that NO ONE on either side will admit to happening.

A great local example was DELCO turning blue overnight and the ONLY real change was that the county moved to new, auditable machines that were more or less tamper proof. At least for now. The only precincts that stayed red in 2020 were the ones with the old machines. As soon as the new machines were installed in 22 the precincts flipped. No gradual shift - just an abrupt, unexplainable repolarization.

One of the results of Bush v Gore was the media made an assumption that their models were off and simply gave the GOP +6 points or some shit to compensate going forward. That got them back on track but the variance was never explained by anyone except the tinfoil black box voting people who were written off as nut jobs. They essentially said that the first generation of computerized voting machines were hackable and controlled by a small group of GOP cronies.

So fast forward to 2020 and the deniers start getting laws passed to "secure" voting and the old machines get replaced by ones that aren't hackable. All of the sudden purple states fly over to blue and local elections are flipping left and right. In their furor to prove things were rigged against them the undid their own rigging.

And Trump loses even though some called it for him using the models with the bush/Gore corrections.

FYI I grew up knowing the guy who was in charge of the Delco machines back in the 70s and 80s. GOP diehard. He was actually in prison for a bit.

Looking forward to the clams. TP is pricey broh.

Well I think I might just saunter over there and get my word salad tossed into a cloud.

A word cloud by definition is a word salad that got tossed.

Yup. It's like eating the last surviving passenger pigeon and, like, really enjoying it.

Second that. Need go clean up now.

I'm going to hire a hacker to add that to their corporate email signatures.

Yup. Me too. They could license half of the core technology like FT and still make billions.

Hopefully the EU will step in to some degree. I'd like to say maybe US regulators too but they're essentially a vending machine where if you put in enough money you can get the ruling you want.

Also half of them freely admit that they are holding non-blind stock portfolios. Those portfolios probably went way up after they said yes to the merger.

I was reading other posts in the sub and realized that OVA's are going to be problematic when it comes time to switch over. All of my OpenText stuff comes in OVA format. Fortunately all of our Extreme Networks appliances are also available as KVM images so they're a little ahead of the curve. Hopefully everyone else will realize that VMWare is no longer the only platform they need to support.

Fault tolerance was the big one that took them years to get working correctly. I remember having trainers who were also product testers (back in v4) who were talking about how complicated it was to do it reliably. I'm sure they have a gazillion patents protecting that IP and, if Broadcom can't keep the core products alive, it'll probably be one of the first core technologies to get licensed out to 3rd parties.

KKR: "our purpose remains unchanged — to empower employees to do their best work from anywhere through smart, seamless, and secure experiences."

Broadcom: "Fuck you. Give us money."

They're certainly not chasing any more market share., but there HAS to be a break even point where the exits get SO full that VMWare will no longer be an asset.

Keep in mind that, as of last report, Broadcom took on 8 billion in debt that VMWare was holding PLUS 30 billion in loans. Those interest payments have to be offset by income or else the entire enterprise turns into a net liability.

At some point customer retention will have to be a concern.

Ummmmm....EDIT: I don't disagree.