Samsung has a long and illustrious history of trolling Apple in its smartphone commercials. But now the South Korean firm is cloning one of the iPhone features it once mocked, and it has quietly deleted records of the ads.
Samsung unveiled its Note 10 on Wednesday and, as has been widely observed, the phone falls in line with other new devices on the market in that it does not come with a 3.5 mm headphone jack.
[...] Samsung released a memorable advertisement in November 2017 titled "Growing Up." It features an iPhone user through the ages becoming increasingly frustrated with the limitations of his phone. In the end, he caves and buys a Samsung Galaxy. In one section, he ruefully inspects an adapter cable, which enables iPhone users to turn their charging portal into a 3.5 mm headphone jack.
Fast forward to 2019 and Note 10 customers may need a similar bit of kit to use wired headphones with their device. And as for that "Growing Up" ad, it has disappeared from some of Samsung's major YouTube channels.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Tuesday August 13 2019, @04:22AM
Lithium has a hard price ceiling. At about double today's price it becomes economical to extract it from seawater and that supply is basically unlimited. Given some lag in the price/demand/build-new-plant system I think in the short term the price will go higher, but in the long term that is the maximum.
Much like the situation with oil and renewables, I would also expect current lithium prices to spike downwards as stockpiles are dumped on the market any time someone tries to build a seawater lithium extraction facility. It will be delayed by these tactics, but will happen in the end.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.