Velvet_Spaceman

Oh sure! And ChromeOS being locked down the way it is and the OEMs being what they are I’d argue Google hardware is much less needed here than it is in the Android space where the only word google really gets out edgewise is with their own hardware.

I mean the way I see it this is like the third time they’ve done this. They made two Pixels (just called Pixel at the time, no book!,) a Pixelbook years later, and then a Pixelbook Go years after that. There’s never been a consistent laptop line from Google and this just confirms they aren’t going to stop now lol.

While I agree there’s nothing wrong with a high end Chromebook there doesn’t really seem to be a market for it. Not a sustainable one anyway. Which is frankly kinda predictable seeing where and how Chromebooks are most frequently used. I don’t fault anyone for wanting a nice Chromebook, but this was probably still the right call. Of course it’s google so give a few years and you’ll get another Pixelbook eventually lol.

Sure but my point is that photographer is increasingly an endangered species. And this seems to be a pretty clear attempt by Hassy to get some of that A7, EOS R, etc money.

I think it’s a con given that increasingly in the professional world you’re expected to do both. The number of people who can get away with just shooting still for a living is a vanishing number. This is an impressive stills cameras for a lot of different types of photography. But it’s expensive as is, if your work requires video as well (and if it doesn’t already there’s a decent chance it will in the future) buying into an entirely different system on top of this is a hard sell.

I’m not sure how this is at all like the Q2. Ones a fixed lens full frame camera and the other is a medium format system camera.

Yeah for sure. In terms of phones as fashion there’s little changes here and there, and the cameras are always getting better. But the core phone is still basically the same. I’m still using a XS and I feel like I may as well wait another year and hope next years iphone has USB-C. That would be more meaningful to me than anything shown off this year lol. Honestly it’s kinda nice not feeling the need to drop a big wad of cash every year so I don’t know why I’m complaining lol

Year one it means nothing, by year five though the differences in SOC may make a noticeable difference. And with flagships being as expensive and boring as they currently are upgrade cycles are only getting longer, inflation of course doesn’t help with that either.

Man, I may be an iPhone user but it’s striking how this elongated hole punch with nice animations is the most interesting part of Apple’s flagship phone.

Phones are getting reeeeeal boring. They’re astonishingly competent products, but boring none the less. I’m really hoping those foldables mature so there’s something more interesting to talk about lol.