Yep. I've been bit by this several times myself. Thanks, Apple. You couldn't get basic bundled demo software to work...

I still don't see how this answers the original claim "[It's because] Chinese people prefer...to buy Chinese made products", as Samsung foldables used to sell well. Did they suddenly get nationalism? Is the sales change a change in nationalism feelings, or better competition in China? If the first, what changed it? Perhaps you meant to say squabbles with the USA triggered general nationalism in China, spilling over into Korean products?

Google got fluttered, so the Python teams darted.

Gary, stay away from windows in tall buildings, don't take private aircraft, and test ALL your food on a hamster first.

I've been fighting reoccurring fraud charges on one of my cards for fucking YEARS. This explains why, after canceling my card, I soon start getting new charges on the replacement.

Absolutely infuriating.

> Chinese people preferring to buy Chinese made products

It's possibly the gov't is pushing local sales in light of the Chip Wars et al. Otherwise, why were Samsung's sales higher not too long ago?

> the top spot has been taken by Huawei.

Are Huawei's foldable models any good? If they perfected folding tech, maybe Samsung or Google should license it rather than rely on their own.

Is there a Nosedive brand phone? It could lead to a fun dual headline: "Nosedive Phones Folded, and Foldable Phones Nosedived"

> I've owned all 4 Z Flips and recommend any model except for the 5.

Four? Either they don't last long, or you have a phone fetish, and thus not a representative test customer.

I'd be pretty sad if I were stupid enough to finance $3900 on a gadget with no financial return potential. No idea what the terms are for such financing, but at 6% over 36 months (eg. similar to what you'd pay for a car loan) you're paying an extra $500 on that price. That's insane to me.

I was taught that financing things was foolish, and a waste of money. Only finance something that will earn you money or make you money: a car for getting to work, a house (which will appreciate, or at least not waste your rent money on someone else's financing), a business opportunity, or a degree (which is much less of a benefit today, than it was even 20 years ago).

I'm not sure what the whole point of this post is. I guess the OP is likely a new adult who's had very little real world experience to date with financing and getting suckered by a product launch marketing, and it's unfortunate they had to suffer $4400 for such an opportunity. At least it wasn't a college degree.

In retrospect, perhaps it'd have been better if everything ended back then.

Yep, lot more scammers on Amazon now than in the past, and the prices are massively inflated.

It's usually cheaper and faster to get something delivered from Walmart or Target for us, and we know it's not going to be a knockoff piece of crap.

If it's not needed immediately, I'll just use AliExpress.

For the first year of Covid, my deliveries were sometimes nearly next-day. I don't know how they did it: I could order something at 10pm and I'd have it the next day by 5pm, generally. Note: I'm 6 or 8 hours (depending on which way you're going) from the nearest distribution center.

Now, it's not uncommon for Prime items to take a week to get to me. Due to the added cost of most things on Amazon, I've been using AliExpress more often. It's the same shit, and you'll pay a lot less.

Shipping anything from UPS to any other location seems to start at about $25 here. It cost me about $70 to mail a teeshirt to Arizona with UPS.

emoting a hypothesis based on your mother's treatment of you...

I found your mother quite special in bed.

Intel can make both x86 and newer style chips, it's not either/or.