26 Replies to “In The Immortal Words Of P.T. Barnum”

  1. Maybe Samsung’s only mistake was introducing their folding phones by sending them to journalists, instead of people that are able to read, understand, and follow simple instructions.

    1. Agreed, NW.

      Where I don’t disagree with the idea of that ‘suckers’ are forking over $2,000 for a gimmick on a otherwise cheap and pedestrian product, this says more about a group of arrogant, self-important people who think they know better about everything.

      1. There’s an Apple store in the shopping centre next to where I live. Whenever a new product is released, it’s almost a certainty that, the following day, people will be lining up to get in, presumably to get their hands on that item. I fail to see the logic.

        1. Just……..gotta………have…………..it!

          Saw it years ago with my wife’s niece’s husband. He just HAD to replace his stereo yearly, had to have the latest gizmo sound effects, cuz NEW!
          Now, same thing with phones, Apple crap, TVs, Alexa, blah blah blah. Wonder why the millenials are only $200 away from insolvency? They can’t lay off the tekky crap

  2. I have a folding phone as well.
    A Kyocera flip phone.
    Used for phone calls and NOTHING else. $130.00 new.

    2. I just bought one of those a few months back and got rid of my Samsung Smarty Bloat Phone, a perfectly operating S4 spy machine that they couldn’t keep their mitts off “improving my experience”. Peel Remote started running the thing, so I killed it. Cost me $350 CDN at Telus. That’s to own it outright, with no Plan. The Telus doll who sold it to me looked at me like I was from a galaxy far, far away and could not understand why I didn’t want a Smart Phone. I said they were too Smart by half. I just want a phone. I can get email and texts as always. I don’t need all the other crap loaded.

      The Kyocera Dura XE was it’s replacement. It’s a phone. Period. It can do all that a Smarty Phone can to a point, but if you just need a phone (on a rig too….gas free) get one of these. Business accounts only. Set up to receive email, but nothing gets downloaded without my say so. It doesn’t call home at all by choice. If I want to surf, or cruise the web I do that on my desktop at home. Wired only.

      I just sit on the LRT and people watch folks oblivious to what goes on around them.

    3. I have been using a flip phone for sometime now and am currently on my third. Purchased at Wal-Mart for 59 dollars.

  3. Reminds me of the woman in university who tried cutting the floppy disc out of its operating shell, and then wondered why she had trouble shoving this flimsy thing into the slot.

      1. … How to destroy your company 101.

        Spend multiple millions of dollars inventing a product no one needs, or wants, or can afford … and then make it poorly … so it disillusions your customers. Hey! I just realized … the folding glass screen cell phone … is the “Tesla” of cell phones! I hope it’s batteries aren’t ignited by folding the screen …

  5. “A couple of journalists say they removed a thin, protective layer from the screens that they thought was supposed to come off, but was meant to stay.”

    Journalists are dumb.

    1. Yet they claim to be the guardians of democracy. And here in Canuckistan, to be therefore worthy of subsidies from the public purse.

      1. Well … today’s journalists have refused to READ the instructions for our Republic … the US Constitution. They pretend as if it doesn’t exist.

        1. I will suggest that they really don’t know that the constitution exists. Refusing to read is no different than being unable to read, one remains ignorant.

  8. Speaking of dumb stuff

    I saw on tv a couple days ago that some pick up ( the Dodge Ram I think ?) has a TWELVE INCH touch screen

    yes a 12 inch touch screen

    in a 6000 pound moving vehicle to distract the driver from what is on the road

    what is next? 48 inch touch screens in cars?

    you are not allowed to talk in a cell phone ( I agree, you shouldn’t) but you can look at a TWELVE INCH screen while driving???

    Maybe the truck is a great truck but that screen will cause many accidents and surely a few deaths

    1. Oh man this is a huge pet peeve of mine. I really really despise those touch screens just slapped on the dash like some car designer in a fit of rage decided to put double-sided Velcro tape on an Ipad and said “These people want technology? – WE’LL GIVE THEM TECHNOLOGY”. These monstrosities are everywhere now. I don’t care how beautiful your car is. If you’ve got one of those stupid iPad slapped on the dash, I have zero interest in buying your car.

      1. I agree with sid V, I hate those touch screens, they look awful in a car, it makes the car look like a toy, or a video game, it looks un-serious

        actually I hate ALL touch screens

        I prefer pressing and turning real buttons

        my girlfriend s new car has one of those touch screens, it is complicated to operate…it takes longer to get to what you want to do than if you had a nice knob to press or turn

        my bank also just replaced the auto teller with a freakin touch screen…on a touch screen it is easier to press the wrong thing or double press

        I hate all touch screens

        I see them as gadget, a fad, one day almost nothing will have touch screens, people will go back to knobs and buttons

    2. They’re copying Tesla, which have always had large screens. A computer on wheels, thats why geeks like Tesla’s despite the ridiculous price.

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