cyrano@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoTragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage sitewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square147fedilinkarrow-up1610arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up1598arrow-down1external-linkTragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage sitewww.tomshardware.comcyrano@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square147fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squaredev_null@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 hours agoThe marketing is more for the submersible camera that survived, just like it was designed to do, the SD card was just inside the camera and no water even touched it. I don’t think the SD card should be getting any credit.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·8 hours agoYeah I know but marketing is marketing. It doesn’t really have to make any sense. If the Xbox controller had survived I’m sure Microsoft would have made big of that even though it’s basically irrelevant to the product.
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 hours agoThey didn’t even use an Xbox controller, they cheaped out and used an ancient Logitech clone
The marketing is more for the submersible camera that survived, just like it was designed to do, the SD card was just inside the camera and no water even touched it. I don’t think the SD card should be getting any credit.
Yeah I know but marketing is marketing. It doesn’t really have to make any sense.
If the Xbox controller had survived I’m sure Microsoft would have made big of that even though it’s basically irrelevant to the product.
They didn’t even use an Xbox controller, they cheaped out and used an ancient Logitech clone