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It is not discoverable. It is a power-user feature that makes the UI less obvious for ordinary people.

A lot depends on how developers use/abuse this feature. If only power-user features are hidden in the 3D-touch menu then it will be OK. But if ordinary features are only exposed via this menu then apps will become harder to use.
Books are also widely copied and shared... as audio files or eBook files.
Apple iPad Pro
Yeah, I was terrified of super-thin phone in super-tight pants and went with this last year: http://www.urbanarmorgear.com/collections/apple-iphone-6-plu...

It doesn't add unusable thickness to the phone and as a bonus it gives you more friction so if your hands are sweaty you're less likely to drop your $1,000 magic pocket supercomputer (completely smooth rounded corners look nice, but sure are slippery and drop prone).
Right click for touchscreens.
And yet Chromecast is a hit (#2 in all Electronics on Amazon).
I know - we can call them "motion pictures"!
Apple iPhone 6S
> It might be best of breed in terms of polish and features

It is. That's exactly how Apple revolutionizes anything - by making it fun, and natural, to use. Just like tablets, mp3 players, and smartphones existed before Apple got into them.

This is what they do, it's what they always do, and yet people are surprised by it every time.
Unfortunately not. afaik the technology disappeared into Java focused Esmertec.

There are a few papers and slide-decks:

"Design, implementation, and evaluation of the Resilient Smalltalk embedded platform" ====> http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.84....

"A New Approach to Developing Robust Embedded Software" ====> http://lore.ua.ac.be/Events/VM/BE.pdf
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I'm intrigued, but could someone point me in the direction of some background?
The shortcuts on the homescreen looked real useful (though they would depend on what the application developer decided to add as quick jumps), and I've done the "open message/back to list/open message/back to list" way too often
The Windows RT Surface was a big flop for a lot of reasons. Telling developers it had an iPad store model when the x86 version didn't was probably a bigger problem.
Timeouts are the majority of the issues, when our service is running perfectly fine otherwise.

They have often been short, but sometimes long enough to cause me to sit there and flip DNS for various end points away from them until the issue is resolved.
Do Android TV, Fire TV, etc., have a multi-axis, touch remote with Siri (or any spoken) interface built in, and also include an SDK for building apps (including full-blown games) that are universal between the TV and phone/tablet?

I mean, you said it's identical...
Not trying to offend you, but have you had your hands on one yet? I don't think you can say this until you do. It may be crap. Well, it's Apple, so it's probably not crap, but maybe it actually won't make a <i>huge</i> difference.
That's a good point. It seems like it indeed could make things more confusing, I think this is one of the things that Steve Jobs wouldn't allow.
I wonder about the range of the remote. Right now I can keep my Apple TV in a media closet and use an IR extender with the remote. Will BT 4.0 work 40+ feet away through walls?
I don't think so. If the ordinary user doesn't know about it, they won't care. They'll still continue to press as normal. When they do discover it, they'll try it again to see if they like it, if they don't they'll forget about that too and continue on with regular presses.
They leave the scoreboard because it contains branding for the host team / stadium and frequently the local affiliate actually running the broadcast. NFL Gamepass, and both NHL and MLB live air the original broadcast feed.
http://www.6smarketing.com/blog/weare6s/
I'd say it was too expensive to be used, otherwise they'd be used more often. Also one of them did not explode as intended due to the primitive detonation mechanism, so there was some technical difficulties involved (at a time when they barely started using matchlocks, not even the more advanced and successful flintlocks).

It was basically the equivalent of a boat filled with TNT as I understand, not that powerful.

Could've been very useful at wiping out ports, cities and fleets, at the time, I doubt they had any qualms about it :-).

Also, not that much of a war deterrent, as history can attest, lol...
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Why can't they just list the prices? Does anyone still get their phone under a 2 year contract anymore? I have no clue what "From $199" means.
Also the new MacBook and MacBook Pros. The trackpad feels exactly like the old one, but you can just keep pushing it and get a second click. It's really neat and I can't wait until El Capitan and for more apps to take advantage of it.
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Do you have any insight as to why those spambots would do that? The only thing I can think of is SEO for the "referral" domain, so that they boost their own domain's ranking.
It does not even exist in any meaningful capacity in Europe.
The site is currently tiny, but here is where I try to talk about what helps the homeless: http://whathelpsthehomeless.blogspot.com/

I am trying to frame solutions that are grounded in the realities of what causes homelessness while honoring the fundamental humanity and dignity of homeless individuals. I think anything less tends to make the problem more entrenched, not less entrenched. It is a high bar to meet, and that's part of why the site is being developed so very slowly.
Its interesting to see Apple re-introduce 'modes' something that Jobs himself hated.

Things like right clicking, force/3D touching, or stylus's are specific modes that need to be activated and de-activated discreetly -- showing a separate set of otherwise non-discoverable features.
One of the things that I remember about 9/11 was that, even though news outlets had largely come online, websites struggled under the stress of everyone hitting them constantly trying to get updates.

I remember in particular that the New York Times dumbed down their home page to basically be a bulleted list summary of facts as well as they were known at the time (unfortunately, the web archive doesn't seem to have a copy during the morning of 9/11/2001). And some of those facts were wrong -- a rumor that persisted much longer than others was that there had been a car bomb at the State Dept, but there was a lot of confusion, as well as uncertainty and incredulity about what the truth was.

So, anyway, I like this idea, including the "fog of war" that existed particularly with these events. I don't know what you already have planned, but it would be neat to show both conflicting information in real-time as well as attributing sources (e.g. "CNN is reporting that ...").

Also, another fun event from those years where news outlets screwed everything up would be the 2000 presidential election.
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> What happened to Apple revolutionizing the way people pay for/consume content?

I was really hoping to hear about a deal with ESPN to bring ESPN directly to viewers without a cable subscription.
> no USB port to be able to easily copy files to/from

It's networked. iCloud, Dropbox, email, etc.

> as well as no way to connect an external display for presentations.

All current iPads have a dongle for HDMI out. And they can output to Apple TV. Do you think they removed that for this one?

Despite the cute size and gorgeous screen I still haven't found a great use for the iPad.

edit:

Just looked at the dongles available. There's both USB and SD card input and VGA output as well the HDMI I mentioned.
No they can't, at least not in America.
My take on why this has no change in denting the console gaming market: https://plus.google.com/+RayCromwell/posts/gENFJnoUUWK

Pundits are out in force suggesting that the new Apple TV is going to somehow put traditional game consoles out of business, but this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the traditional console market and the difference between console games and casual gamers.

The iPhone and iPad has massively grown the casual gaming market, bringing whole new demographics into gaming, and it has disrupted the handheld gaming market, but it has not done so at the expense of console gaming. The core defining characteristic of casual gamers is the ability to get into, and out of a game quickly. They consume games in small bitesize pieces, waiting in line, in downtime between other activities, not in multi-hour binges. Being mobile helps this mode of consumption, because your mood for gaming can arise in many circumstances, and you can instantly satiate it on your mobile phone, without having to arrange TV time or disturb someone else.

By contrast, TV console gaming has a high transaction cost. You have to travel to your living room, turn on the TV, find the controllers, boot up the game, make sure no one else wants to use the TV for other purposes, etc. Moreover, console games are designed more as a TV experience, for someone to play 30, 60, 120, even 240 minutes at a time.

The new Apple TV, from it's leaked specs, is essentially a casual gaming machine hooked up to a TV. This might spell trouble for the Nintendo Wii, but Sony and Microsoft?

The Apple HW is no where close to current generation console level specs, and anyone creating content for it will be faced with casual gamer price expectations. How many publishers will want to spend tens of millions of dollars on triple-A titles and sell them in the app store? That would be like Marvel selling their next movie for 99 cents. Is EA going to put out a $1.99 version of StarWars Battlefront? They're not going to get console ports or exclusives of current games until they've exhausted the markets on other platforms.

So, without content to draw the people who want a 2 hour immersive gaming experience, they won't get console gamers. But what of casual gamers?

How many people will exchange the convenience of playing Angry Birds on their phone with playing it on their TV? My guess is, people have moved on from wanting to sit in front of their TV and that casual gamers are mostly mobile gamers.

I don't think this product fits either market very well, and the primary use case of it will remain video streaming, of which is is much more expensive (and less capable, no 4k streaming) than cheaper streamers already on the market.
Hi sounds like you'd like some constructive criticism so here's MHO.

Images can be great aids in understanding text and making abstract concepts concrete. Also, in many cases the usual metaphor/simile rules apply. For instance, in the phrase he's "fast as a bolt of lightning" we can imagine the speed of the runner and it helps us envision how he "flashes" by opponents. In this case both concepts are known i.e. lighting and fast, but new descriptive meaning is created through the use of simile. Similarly, metaphor takes two known concepts and combines them to reveal a new concept. An example of metaphor, would be "he's an emotional rollercoaster", we know what emotional is and how a rollercoaster behaves, this gives us new insight into the persons high and low spiraling personality.

Essentially, I think good images interact just like simile and metaphor with a text, enhancing, extending, and clarifying concepts. If you go back now and look at your images, I think you'll see that they actually reflect rather verbatim what the text contains, only minimally extend or clarify the text, and at times might make it more confusing (how do turtles enhance our understanding of expressions?). So for these reasons, I found them to be distracting and not helpful, as nice as they actually appear graphically :)

Nice post btw :)
You probably aren't cut out for marketing then.
GC works great in practice, but as you say it isn't provable. Likewise, Rust goes a long way towards preventing deadlocks in practice, but that also isn't provable. All I'm talking about here are guarantees. Rust's type system guarantees that there are no data races; that's firm bedrock that I can rely upon. I can't rely on there being no deadlocks just as I can't rely on a garbage collector actually returning any memory. That doesn't mean these tools aren't useful in practice, only that I have to take their failure modes into consideration if I want to write correct programs.
I think most people would at least have heard of the Turing test.
I'm pretty pleased with the specs on this, because it's perfect for my usecase:

I currently use an ipad 4, with its 10" screen, as a second screen for my mpb retina 13. I like this setup because it's thin and relatively light so slots easily into my bag along with my macbook, and doesn't require a power socket to run, just USB. I also use the ipad for reading and a few other tasks so carrying it around has intrinsic value in addition to being a second screen.

The ipad 4 does a reasonable job, but it's a bit on the small side. This new pro form factor is, however, perfect - 12.9" and higher res than my mbp retina screen means it really can be a true second screen, with roughly identical capabilities to my main screen. I'm pretty happy about this.

Won't be upgrading just yet on account of the price, but when it drops enough, replacing my current ipad with this will be a no-brainer.
The surface pro didn't do anything new at all. It was windows for tablets with decent industrial design (great design aside from the keyboards). It's not like Apple hadn't dicked around with keyboard covers et al since back in the Newton days. This isn't a question of who did hardware feature X first but who did user feature Y right. The jury is out but when I went to a Microsoft store ready to buy a maxed out surface pro, five minutes with the keyboard and microsoft's horrible UI designs turned me off. (I see in the MS office demo that they've removed some cruft but still don't design decent touch UIs. )
None of that really matters though. It's all about the applications. If you need to run Windows software, buy a Windows machine. If the applications you depend on require iOS, buy an iPad.

Other non-software features (like battery life and weight) matter as well.

Price doesn't really matter though.
What is the iPhone 6 going to do with iOS 9 w/out the, cough, 3D touch? How will that be handled? For instance, app switching, will it stay the same (double click the home button)?
Well, it did take them about a decade to catch up with Microsoft when they introduced the iPad. Bill Gates announced tablets 15 years ago:

http://youtu.be/T5Va8XfuN9s

What really is happening is the usual trolling that happens after every Apple event.

Apple has different priorities. They'll make tablets more functional as CPU and battery improve. There will be a conversion with the desktop, or at least low-end laptops, at some point. When they put a fan in the iPad then you can question if they've lost their way.
It would indeed appear, by metallurgical analysis, that it does qualify as a 7000 series alloy, but one of Apple's own devising.

http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/08/aluminum-and-strength/
They've had an Apple Remote app for quite some time. Works just like they showed in the demo with the added bonus that you can use the iPhone's keyboard for text input.
Is the Plex on Android on Nexus Player experience better than the Plex on Android on Amazon Fire TV experience? I'm very unhappy with my Amazon Fire TV (which only exists for Plex purposes).
Looks like their target is creatives to me. At least based on the video. But I'm itching to use one for both sketches and meeting notes.
This is much more portable (since you don't have to attach it to a computer - you can carry it around like a paper notebook), has a significantly higher resolution display, and is not much more expensive (especially considering the difference in internals).
It's really surprising that turtle ships and detonating fire ships weren't more commonly used.

Maybe most thought it was just a myth, stories told by travelers, or maybe it was ungentlemanly?

The Civil War and even WW1 saw a lot of losses because of this inability to adapt, by WW2 (and forward) everybody used the latest advances they could get their hands on...
If the price difference doesn't deter you, you might be better off with a Roku 3 (or waiting for a Roku 4, if such a thing is in the pipeline). I have a 3 and sometimes the framerate drops a little bit, so I can't imagine what using a Roku 2 is like.

(The framerate drops occur when navigating the interface, not when viewing content.)
You can dump this link in VLC and still catch the tail end of the feed.

http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1509pijnedf... [1]

[1] From a previous HN post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10192594
Now let's play the game of "guess which provider won't be on the AppleTV". Amazon, perhaps?

This post cord-cutting TV world is pretty awful. I don't want to have to download an app for every video provider, if they even have one for my platform at all.
People crying about Steve Job's views on a stylus:

1. Really, he said that for a phone. But considering the argument valid even on a tablet, well, to put it in scale, the iPad Pro is barely a tablet. It's nearly the average laptop screen(not considering those shitty huge ones that don't fit in bags).

2. Have you even looked at that thing. It's pretty slick. Imagine the utility to artists(the pencil from FiftyThree is an example of its utility).

3. They don't put a ass-like slot to shove it up. Period. That is, I suspect the biggest problem I've had with a stylus. They just do NOT make it compulsory for you to buy one, contrary to what Microsoft or Samsung would have(and are still) done.
Pretty sure that was the parent's point. But the short-term results may not be what is relevant. Plenty of good decisions were lambasted in the short-term because consumers aren't always the best judge of what will happen down the line. People overrate what will happen in 1 year and underrate what will happen in 5.
You can tell they changed the name to 3D touch very late in the development. Most of them probably still call it Force Touch.

I liked the name Force Touch. A little creepy, sure, but it made sense, and basically told you what to do.
Correct - though this is mostly due to there being little/poor hardware support for those formats.

Natively the Apple TV (currently, don't know the new model) supports H.264, MPEG4, and MJPEG - all of which are trivially supported by actual chipsets.

Matroska/Ogg/Avi aren't as well supported (or well used, tbh.. other than Avi which is a container anyhow)
Time is a flat circle.
That’s the biggest worry, certainly, but I think it’s very possible to get this right. We do not yet know how this feels, but one positive indication that they payed lots of attention, to exactly this, one of the two central riddles to solve to get this tech right (the other being the places in the UI you use it and to what end), is that implementation details in the UI also telegraph how they want to communicate this feature.

So, first of all, there are three levels and the first level is a peek, nothing serious and totally non-committal. Frequently accidentally engaging this would probably still be super annoying, but if it happens once in a while and is also super responsive then that’s not a big deal. Making this first step non-committal is probably a big part of making this all work.

Second, the peek seems to show off some direct input based on force (with the preview dynamically resizing based on it), so that you are not blindly guessing the pressure you have to apply. This direct feedback is probably also a big part of the puzzle.

If they get that right and given their implementation (distinct, few and pretty clear and consistent places to force touch, at least within their applications, that all do predictable and understandable things) I think this is a winner and will make using everything much more of a joy to use. It could also suck. We don’t know yet. I’m just really happy someone is trying stuff like that. The vocabulary on touch devices we have is nice, but it is still sparse. Maybe this extension will work out, maybe it won’t. Either way, I’m excited.
iPhone 3d Touch technology
I know it's basics but we really have to get rid of the bowling ball on rubber sheet or the fat man on trampoline analogies to teach GR to laypersons (http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/3324/misused-phys...). A good analogy will teach a few most important principles of a complicated concept to a beginner, this one doesn't come close. In fact, it's very dangerous because it gives the illusion of understanding by substituting the wrong concept with the right one. This can lead to confusions like this one: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/142344/is-my-inte...
The lack of discoverability in these new interfaces is alarming. Maybe they're just for super-users, but still.
Folks, the talk referenced in this interview 'Why BDD can Save Agile' is here - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/bdd-agile-patterns. It's a worthy watch to get a better picture of what he means.
BT4 encourages increased ranges to WIFI-type (~200ft)… whether the remote supports that is a different question though.
Base hardware is fine.

But the iPhone has shipped with 16GB minimum storage ever since the 4s four years ago. Since then the speed, resolution, and camera have all increased by at least one factor of two. All of these things also increase the storage requirements for photos and apps.

If I was the type of user who was satisfied with the base model of my old phone, and I buy the new base model and am not satisfied, then I am not going to be happy. I use my phone the same way I did four years ago. If I wasn't a 'pro' user then, why am I now?
I wasn't referring to specifically innovation. While games like Candy Crush are generally frowned upon by the non-casual gamers, iOS as a marketplace is rather well adopted by all sorts of developers from indie to AAA. Hell, even Nintendo has agreed to license their IP to the iOS market. To me, Apple TV is now a console and while it's not as open as the PC ecosystem, it is no doubt a place developers want to be.
I'm super excited. I was on Soylent consistently last summer/fall, but had to stop during the winter because living off chilled drinks in winter was hell. I've struggled all summer to get back into the groove and I think pre-bottled Soylent would be best for me. Now I'm just hoping it's good at room temperature.
> play Kerbal Space Program for a few days. Suddenly, you get rocket science.

Seriously.

With my kids (10 and 13), we watch all sorts of videos on youtube - about space exploration, rockets, etc. I talk to them about orbital maneuvers, things like plane change, Hohmann transfer, and when they don't get it, all I have to say is "remember KSP?" And they're like "oh, yeah, that makes sense".
Surface seems to be doing pretty well. I'm sure even better when compared to other PC manufacturers.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-surface-hits-1bn-reve...
At the time they adopted it but soon after. The moment the 386 became affordable the 68k platform was in decline.
I think you are not supposed to hide any features behind that … Apple certainly doesn’t seem to want to. I really hope third party devs won’t … (games are the notable exception here – I generally don’t have a problem with those using any and all inputs their can get their hands on, but that’s just in the nature of the thing)
Will the new Apple TV be able to play arbitrary files over a network? That would be simply fantastic -- but unlikely.
See https://www.webguyinternet.com/users/stimpfam/science-histor...

TL;DR (even though it isn't very long): Science cannot find (direct) evidence either for or against the existence of God. It can't do this even in principle. Atheism is therefore the product of a philosophical view, rather than a product of the scientific evidence. A scientist, then, should not take a dogmatic view on this, especially not a militant one. If a scientist does so, he/she should recognize that it is unconnected to science.

[Edit: clarity.]