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I have an issue with Yellen and it has nothing to do with her policies. It is with her use of online notifications via FinCEN. As annoying as Mnuchin was, he didn't send an update readout of the time he farted in a museum or read a treatise on funding random things. She seems to treat the entire ecosystem as her own personal PR team.


And in some places, those are hard to avoid. My school in previous semester had a class that required online meetings that were recorded and transcriped with no way to opt out without affecting your grade. And explaining my beefs to professors is getting harder and harder ( ie. for an outside viewer it looks like I am not being reasonable ).


This is part that is aggravating to me. I know you are right, but why does it have to one thing. A discerning consumer should be able to determine if a given product works for its use case.


I thought that argument was strong. If a brand or at least a product line has one characteristic, it can find customers that value it and it becomes their goto choice. Without that, the product has to find new customers each time. Gets ridiculous with cult-like followings as with Apple, but in essence it does not have to be a bad mechanism.


I genuinely enjoyed my S2 ( I9100 ) and I only given it away to my sister since she kinda annexed it during my trip to the old country. It was a solid device for the time. Since then I also used asus zenfone ( interesting features there ) and now LG v20 ( prolly last android phone with changable battery ).

I honestly don't get why people are so addicted to a brand. I used to drive Acura when 2004 models were still good. I wouldn't buy one today.

Still, LG failing does seem like a marketing loss. My experience with their hardware was not bad.


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