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>Do you think a $10 USB C cable from Amazon could fast charge any phone or offer TB3 speeds?

Then:

>But they don’t do high speed data and fast charging.

Ah, so it's high speed AND charging now. Moving goal posts?

My S22U does super fast charging just fine on the cheap anker cables. Super fast charging is 25W; the better test is that I use them for my laptops which are 65W minimum. 3.2 Gen 2 cables are around $15 and can get 10gpbs which is both high power and high speed data. The state of the industry has gotten much better than it was a few years ago.

Look at apple man, so inspirational!

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But they don’t do high speed data and fast charging.

If you have the original 2017 Pro, replace the hybrid HDD for a proper SSD, the process is a bit convoluted, but is significantly easier if you have the ability to bit for bit clone a drive either using hardware or software due to the boot sector being a bit picky.

My only complaint now is it's starting to show its age in regards to video formats. Dolby Vision content is green/purple, although this may actually be my LG C9 even though some Dolby Vision content plays fine via the Xbox series x, no support for VP9 Profile 2 so no HDR within YouTube.

If they made a new one with a user serviceable SSD or NVME, decent specs and support for current/future codecs, I'd buy it on the spot.

The funny thing is my daily driver cables are 2 for $10 anker cables that do 60W charging just fine. The 100W cables are 2 for $15 on Amazon.

Oh look a top 10 list of phones to avoid.

Wow! So innovation! Much courage!

Despite that chart, they still have just 20% market share. Clearly not a monopoly.

That would make you very stupid, if that's the case.

I don't think that monopoly means what you think it means.

This is only cause only Apple users are brain-washed enough to think they should be buying a new phone every year during the current economic climate.

Anyway, does this look like a monopoly? It sure does. Hopefully Antitrust regulators catch up to this news. This is a strong indicator that Antitrust watchdogs should start considering splitting the app store from the hardware maker.

LOL android fans are in denial in this thread. EDIT: Some don't even know what's the different between a news article and a press release. LOL

Destined to become a collectors item; because nobody will buy it. Refer to Tangerine, Flower Power and Dalmatian iMacs.

Clear case my friend

I bought my Shield in 2015, and it's still the streaming box I use in my living room (though I did have to replace the remote). It's lasted longer than a couple of TVs. And somehow 7 years later it's still the best option.

My God, yes. "First World, Bullshit Problems for 100, Alex."

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> tablet version is optimized better

The only difference I'm aware of between the tablet version of DeX and the version on phones is the keyboard toolbar. What else are you saying is "optimized better"?

And a desktop computer is just a case unless you put components inside of it.

My computer is always on and my desk is fairly close to my living room TV so I just walk over and load things normally. I usually have a few pages and apps open with various things queued up and just drag the window over when needed. It's powerful enough that I can stream to my TV and continue using the computer for other things if needed. Also I have a VPN to watch content from the UK and NZ etc, and some other ways to have whatever content I want on the computer so I find the experience of having it connected to my TV very freeing.

I also have a remote mouse/keyboard app on my phone that connects to my computer so I can control it from anywhere in my apartment.

This works well for me because I live in a small apartment, when I live in a larger place I'll still have the media computer but probably set it up more like a server and set up an ethernet HDMI hub to drive the TVs.

Ironically, I actually have a smart TV loaded with all the streaming apps and whatnot, but I find the user experience quite terrible and only use it as a last resort if for some reason the computer is out of commission.

I'm curious about PC as streaming box. Say this is your scenario: You come home, you want to watch one episode of a show on Netflix, and then an episode of a show on Hulu. What does that process look like for you?
Do you have to boot the PC? Launch software? How do you launch and easily switch between apps?

You have to do a lot of custom work to the shield to make it not display ads. I have a custom launcher and the regular launcher disabled.

I mean it works great this way, but it's annoying

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