Enlighten me. Why would I want a foldable screen phone?

[balrog]

I don't get it.
It's bound to break. Same with electric car windows instead of a crank, and all that stuff they have the "computer" in the car do now.

And stay off my lawn.

 

[grampamark]

Probably for the same reason some folks spend $1K+ on, say, a temp-controlled conical fermenter when a ten dollar bucket, thirty dollar temp control and a Craigslist fridge would do the same thing. Form over function. Stuff really matters to some people.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

I don't get it.
It's bound to break. Same with electric car windows instead of a crank, and all that stuff they have the "computer" in the car do now.

And stay off my lawn.

Electric car windows have a use, I can open any window to get a crossdraft without crawling across other seats.

Foldable phones, not so much.

 

[bracconiere]

so that you can ignore people on the other side of it! (duh)

 

[mongoose33]

Probably for the same reason some folks spend $1K+ on, say, a temp-controlled conical fermenter when a ten dollar bucket, thirty dollar temp control and a Craigslist fridge would do the same thing. Form over function. Stuff really matters to some people.

If a temp-controlled conical fermenter did the same thing as a 10-dollar bucket, I wouldn't have bought it.

 

[bracconiere]

If a temp-controlled conical fermenter did the same thing as a 10-dollar bucket, I wouldn't have bought it.

i want to know where people are getting these $10 buckets!

 

[grampamark]

If a temp-controlled conical fermenter did the same thing as a 10-dollar bucket, I wouldn't have bought it.

The only thing a temp-controlled conical does that a bucket in a temp-controlled fridge doesn’t is create the need to rationalize.

 

[lump42]

I don't get it.
It's bound to break. Same with electric car windows instead of a crank, and all that stuff they have the "computer" in the car do now.

And stay off my lawn.

Same idea as the older flip cellphones. Smaller footprint in the pocket, larger to area to use. But it's a new tech and I'm not an early adopter so I'll be waiting for the kinks worked out and its in the budget phones.

 

[Robert65]

I'll be waiting for the kinks worked out

Literally! [emoji38]

 

[Cavpilot2000]

Because you care about having the latest trendy gadget just like all our hero social media "influencers"!

I can't believe I actually got through that with a straight face!!

 

[davidabcd]

$1000 for a phone? Payment plans for a phone? Nah! I've had a beef with expensive phones since the dawn of the Blackberry in which 2% of the population actually needs or can utilize all those functions.
It appears that people aren't using reason when choosing a phone or are just plain addicted to them.
An $80 phone gets you decent photos and internet.
That's cool though. I buy $100-$120 running shoes. I can argue that you get what you pay for with shoes. Many would disagree. $50 keeps your feet feeling good, at least as far as I've experienced.
And the cars? Don't get me started about the bells and whistles on the new cars. Those lights that tell you when someone is in your blind spot? Awesome when they're working but what about if the light isn't working? And what about the motorcycle or that car that flies by during the in-between time when it's not lit to when it is? Not lit, it's safe to get over. During that "safe" period when you change lanes, a car going warp speed meets you perfectly. I think it's making drivers lazy and overconfident in the gadgets. Of course, if everyone used them as a backup it would be fine.

I use plastic 7.9gallon fermenters. But I do have a 60q pot for deep frying. Wasn't necessary. Maybe I'll do a BIAB batch with a bunch of 2# muslin bags.

 

[balrog]

I gotta agree with the blind spot lights and weegawgeegaws. To me, that is keeping your eyes inside the car on the instruments, all the while driving up a telephone pole because you aren't watching out the window. That is, if telephone poles were even still a thing...

 

[bucketnative]

It's way more satisfying to hang up a flip phone than pressing a small digital button.

 

[balrog]

Nothing like slamming the old receiver down, however.
That that's satisfying.

 

[davidabcd]

Isn't there a thing/saying that the more gadgets, the more likely something can go wrong?

 

[davidabcd]

satisfying.

That made me laugh. It WAS satisfying. SLAM! Now? press (silent).

 

[davidabcd]

Hated numbers with zeros and nines though. tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick. Took forever.

 

[balrog]

Lying in bed sick as a child, knowing from the dial tic tic whether mom was calling the doc. Yep. Sigh. Now, sitting in a public space, you don't have to guess who's being called because everyone's on their danged speakerphones and speaker earbuds and EVERYONE gets to be a part of EVERY conversation.

 

[lump42]

Isn't there a thing/saying that the more gadgets, the more likely something can go wrong?

My first cellphone I went out of my way to find the uncool brick phone because I didn't want to worry about a hinge breaking. I believe my reasoning was and I quote (paraphrase), "Just one more thing to break" I was also driving a 20 year old truck at the time too.

 

[davidabcd]

Just one more thing to break"

Probably as simple as that. It seems intuitive if not scientifically proven.

 

[davidabcd]

EVERYONE gets to be a part of EVERY conversation.

I always suspected that those that make a show of doing it are trying to feel important. It kills me when someone looks at you and says something but they're talking on their phone.
Yesterday, at the gym (there's a 1/12 mile track) some lady was going on and on and you could hear half way round. Fortunately, I have ear buds.
This is turning into one great big GET OFF MY LAWN, isn't it?
My niece who's a teacher, thinks it's perfectly okay for the students to have their phones with them. I was surprised. I said, "Why not have the kids do a coat check kind of thing? Pick the phone up at the end of the day or even leave it at home. If there's an emergency, the kid can be contacted nearly instantly."
She just thought that was a silly, antiquated idea. I said, "Okay," because she's my niece and I'm not going to change hearts and minds at a family gathering.

 

[CKuhns]

The guy in the bathroom at the airport talking to someone or perhaps to himself makes me a bit uncomfortable. I must confess I grew up in a neighborhood (well before cell phones, foldable or otherwise) that if a guy was talking to himself walking down the street you knew to give him a wide berth as he is the CRAZY guy! Today everyone appears to be talking to themselves and it makes me crazy!!!

 

[Robert65]

No, everyone really is bats**t crazy nowadays. And yeah, they better all get off my lawn too!

 

[Zuljin]

I don't get it.
It's bound to break. Same with electric car windows instead of a crank, and all that stuff they have the "computer" in the car do now.

And stay off my lawn.

So it will fit in the back pocket of your skinny jeans.

Literally! [emoji38]

I have all kinds of kinks in my phone. They send me pictures.

 

[day_trippr]

After the Samsung fold fiasco (which I doubt is truly resolved) I would approach such devices with extreme trepidation.
Having designed numerous devices using simple multilayer flex circuitry - at least an order of magnitude simpler than an actual folding screen - such things have an unavoidable wear out paradigm.

For what I was solving that was no problem - customers don't hot-swap a compute node every two minutes all day long

Cheers!