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Exploring "Why" questions about Technology
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Why do cell phone/internet providers only focus on “New Customers”?
Because changing cell phone providers is a hassle that many won't put up with, and the cell phone market is saturated. So the only real way to grow is to take customers from other carriers.
Why can’t we make batteries that hold dozens of small batteries, then make high amperage chargers to charge them in seconds?
Batteries are made up of smaller batteries or cells. The problem is regardless how you make a battery, you need to deal with heat when charging a battery. The only way to overcome the problem is to sp
Why does the FTC require clothing manufacturers to display the specific country their clothes were made in?
Because Congress passed laws called the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act and the Wool Products Labeling Act that require all garments to have a label identifying whether they are American mad
Why are AAA games increasingly removing local multiplayer (split screen) game types?
Along with the answer about selling multiple copies, it also requires more resources out of the machine to run a split screen game. The CPU needs to process the movements and actions of twice the char
Why don’t doctors just use digital scales and instead use the Physician Scales
Electronic scales can't be nearly as accurate as balance scales. Why? Because the earth's gravity varies by more than 0.5%, depending on where you are.
why does turning on your wifi on your phone, even if not connected to a wifi, help pinpoint your location.
In the background the phone is scanning for which wifi hotspots it can see around you. Given this information your phone can ask Google/Apple/etc over your mobile data connection where hotspots with t
why do girls or guys put naked pictures of themselves on the internet ?
1. Attention/validation/excitement; 2. It's just a normal picture to them and the fact they are naked isn't an issue for them; 3.
Why do numbers in digital clocks jiggle when we chew something crunchy?
The digits are multiplexed. That means that each is driven in turn at high brightness for 1/6 of the time. Then the next one is turned on and so forth.
Why does an Android phone show the WiFi icon for a few seconds even after the router’s turned off?
> I think it's just a delay in the OS's process to update the display And you are almost correct. It's not the display (which can be updated immediately), it's the OS that takes a little time tryin
Why is the first drive on the computer ‘C:’ and not ‘A:’?
Back in the day, computers had one (sometimes two) floppy disk drives. A: and B: were reserved for them and old habits die hard.