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Why are people still buying these phones? - They fake your pictures - i.e. replacing the real moon with a fake one; - Full of vulnerabilities in the wild.. all the time; - Shady connections with Asia

the list goes on and on.

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I'd wager all your electronics contain a majority if parts from Asia.

There are phones that fake the moon, but saying Samsung does that is a lie.

It just fakes it with AI :D

Is there a top-tier phone model on the market that doesn't enhance photos in some way using AI? Not too long ago, there was an HN discussion on AI artifacts on iPhone photos thet are readily apparent when viewed from a large/hi-res display, despite looking "better" than non-enhanced pictures on the phone display.

My partner took a photo of food not long ago, with her iPhone 14. After doing photography for years I told her a photo shouldn't look like that. Why? Because she took it with back lighting and the food looked just perfectly exposed with texture and eveything, just like food photos from magazines.

I mean that's exactly the point of phone cameras, each year phone companies are pushing the edge to get the best on board image processing to do more and more with the limited camera hardware options, it would be naive to expect commercial level control (composing) on the camera and expect it to sell to masses.

The problem here is that Samsung are marketing it as "look how amazing our 100x zoom is!" when in fact it's not 100x zoom, its 30x digital zoom and the results are misleading. The iPhone issue was pointing out how comparatively bad the iPhone processing is...

Its Samsung phones that were caught doing that. It is most certainly not a lie.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35107601

> Shady connections with Asia

Wtf??

Well, Samsung is korean.

The humanity!

They did give their workers cancer and denied it for 10 years. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/samsung-electronics-apology-sic...

Yup, South Korea has a cover up problem. They'd rather cover shit up than admit and take responsibility, all while responsibility is taken very seriously. That's also why bugs don't get fixed.

I still don't understand what "shady connection with asia" means. Asia is a continent of 4.7 billion people and 55 countries.

I have zero problems with my phone.

still better then closed source apple using slaves to build phones

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