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Yup. When jobs announced the iPod at a special event most people said "big deal, it's an MP3 player".

What they didn't look at was how great the UI was, how well it integrated with their Mac (and eventually PC) and how much better the same features that already existed elsewhere were.

I believe the same rules apply here. And the app store will be the best in town. Again.
7xxx series alloys are used in aerospace, Apple's alloying mix is apparently unique...making it a brand new alloy in the 7xxx series...
Plex runs great on iOS devices, so this is probably a low-hanging fruit (to port).

I did try out the Plex app that runs on the Amazon Fire box (Android), but it was slow and didn't feel very nice. Not sure if that's because it's a different, less-optimized codebase, or the Fire is just underpowered.
> For a device at that size, weight, and cost you would be better served buying an Macbook Air.

Fortunately, the Macbook Air still exists, so you can buy that. I wouldn't personally really have a use for this thing either, but I'm sure some people would.
Good point nsa.
Yep. 1.5s 12 MP videos (0.75s before and after) as "live photos".
Also $50 for a Surface 3 pen

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Surface-...
That actually sounds very clever. It looks dense, and I'm not able to make much sense of the actual code, but it seems like some very bright folks were behind GEOS (obviously so, since they built so much interesting software for such limited machines). I was fascinated by PC GEOS when it was new, but I was using an Amiga during the era when it was a thing. I only had a brief stint on PCs when Windows 95 came out, and then soon after moved to Linux as my primary OS (usually with a dual booting Windows partition for gaming). The fact that it had multitasking long before Windows, and on XT/AT class machines was pretty damned cool. There were moments where I considered going that route after my C128D, instead of getting an Amiga.

Interestingly, there is still a company selling PC GEOS under the name Breadbox Ensemble, and their forum has posts from this year (not a lot of posts...but, still). I had no idea. It still looks about like it did in 1995. I am kinda baffled at who would still be buying and using this stuff...in a world with amazingly high quality Open Source tools to do everything GEOS ever did only better, and able to do it well on a very low powered machine (just like GEOS), it seems really strange to keep flogging that old horse.
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What professional applications require ios?
So, you're saying, get an Android phone? :-)
How much RAM does it have?

I thought 16GB was bad in 2014 but it's just comical now considering the 4k and 12MP camera.
For the same price, a video (or a still from a video) doesn't look nearly as good as a photo. The development here is packaging a high-quality still inside a video and doing compression in a way that doesn't kill the photo.

Think about it - why do professional photographers bother with shutters or try to time the perfect shots? Why not just constantly shoot video and pull frames out of it later? Because it would look like crap.

This wouldn't be hard to imitate. Record the live preview into a 3 second buffer. When the user presses the shutter, switch into still mode, take a real photo, wait 1.5 seconds, and then write both the buffer and the photo into the same archive. On playback, by default show the normal photo, but on whatever UI gesture, play the first 1.5 seconds of the video, then the photo for one frame, then the next 1.5 seconds of the video.

Only barrier I could see to re-implementing this on other phones is long wait times while the camera switches modes, during which information is lost.
Surprised no one here mentioned A9 and the updated camera. As a person upgrading from an iPhone 5, I'm pretty excited.
Until now, Surface Pro had no competition in this specific niche, except some Android devices that are likely inferior in hardware and app support. Now it does. Every app for iPad is designed for touch from the start, including the Photoshop port etc., meaning the touch experience for artistry will be better; the question is whether the inability to switch to a trackpad afterward for more precise editing and more complex functionality will outweigh this.
Speaking as an artist who uses the Surface Pro 3 for all of my work, an iPad Pro will be useless without the right software. And as great as Procreate might be, it's not Photoshop and will never be Photoshop. Without the ability to run full desktop apps, this would never be much more than a toy for me.
Apple blankets the planet with their ads. That's how they teach people about features.

How discoverable is Siri? It’s super obscure, nowhere to be found in the UI, you can only activate it via an obscure long-press.
To be fair you'd have to include the Pro 3's keyboard cover in that too - $120.

Also the Surface stylus isn't in the same league. So you'd have to compare to something like the N-Trig stylus which is an extra $50.

Cheaper? Yes, though I'd say the Apple ones are better quality (especially looking at the keyboard cover).
This reminds me of how Steve Jobs said computers are tools that extend our intelligence. If only we taught our children how to do just this! The only thing that comes to mind education-wise is the LA iPad scandal :(
68000 was more powerful for addressing large amounts of RAM that nobody could afford. In terms of actual workhorse performance there's a good argument to be made that a similarly clocked 65816 could outperform a 68000, unless your benchmark is heavy on 32-bit integer calculations. Instructions per cycle and interrupt responsiveness are higher for the 65xx (and 6809)

I'd prefer a 6809 with a wider address bus over a 68000. I wish Motorola had improved on the 6809 rather than having two competing architectures. The 6809 is a joy to code for.
This is a good succinct summary. I'll remember this, thank you :)
At the time they were first developed, tactical nuclear weapons were intended to be used in a full-scale war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. There was an opinion in the military establishment that chemical and low-yield nuclear weapons would be used to a limited degree on the battlefields of an otherwise conventional war.

I don't think this view is as crazy at it sounds on the surface. I don't think the US and UK would launch a general nuclear strike if, say, Soviet Frontal Aviation put a nuclear-tipped cruise missile into the USS Eisenhower or Seventh Army engineers blew strategic bridges with nuclear demolition charges. It's a dangerous line to flirt, though.
Yeah, that's well-suited to Rust's design (although Rust didn't ship with libgreen, the requirements of libgreen influenced the type system, and you can do a similar thing with a third-party library).

In any case the distinction between "multiple processes" and "multiple threads" here is fairly minimal, at least on Linux or OS X. As far as the kernel is concerned, they're the same object (Linux calls them threads; Mach calls them tasks). It's just that sometimes, groups of these things share pointers to things like memory map or file descriptor table, and sometimes they have their own pointers. There isn't a whole lot of difference, either at the language level or the kernel level, between running multiple processes from the same executable image that map a shared heap versus just running multiple threads.
Sometimes the mere existence of the base model causes some problems that can't be fixed with the existence of an upgraded option. This is a consistent problem in an enterprise environment. The base model is always the one purchased more frequently whether through BYOD or enterprise owned devices. This means that support staff has to spend a lot of time working with users to manage space.
In my opinion Ouya was built for casual gamers but marketed towards hardcore gamers. Do you know any casual gamers that backed it? Even if you did, the execution of the hardware and production was poor. They had more than just market problems. So I really don't think Ouya is a good example of the idea that casual gamers don't care about playing on their TV.

Apple TV brings a different form factor to a marketplace that is already successful, just like the iPad did to the iPhone.
Everything bends, there is no spoon...
Or they won't understand what happened and "discover" it randomly from now on.
Is it OK for psychologists to deceive?
IDK, but really the Force touch adaptation, renamed 3D touch(surprise surprise) is a nice touch, but really, I wonder if it's worth buying a new iPhone.
I guess, at least with me, it's a somewhat privacy issue. Imagine your favorite apps revealing 25% of what you do on an app simply by holding your phone's home screen.
Moreover, I often hold/touch my phone in different manners, like, asleep, just-got-up, really angry, running-to-some-place. It'll be really irritating if this kind of a feature got in my way while working. Most of us do NOT always use our phone's the way the advertisements expect us to.
You're confusing modes with discoverability. Force touch isn't a mode but it is invisible if you don't know it's there. Jobs wanted discoverable, modeless user interfaces where possible (and he was right). Both the watch and force touch are horrible from a discoverability point of view.
Give it time. They all will eventually.
> It's different from a traditional Option type, though, in that Option<Option<T>> is inexpressible.

I don't think so. It's just a pointer to a pointer, rather than a single pointer. That is,

int **value;

and either

value == null

or

*value == null

or

**value == some value of interest
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Does this one have as much lead and cadmium as the previous?
https://youtu.be/H64jrtP8Cbk?t=2m1s

Live photos are not really "completely new technology", but I think Apple does it better, since most likely every Apple device plays the live photo.
Depends on the benchmark. It's certainly competitive. For example:

http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=29
I remember when full-screen touch was a new concept. Blackberry tried to introduce a physical "click" with the BB Storm. It sounded like a good idea, but it practice it turned out to be unnecessary. Apple won the UI battle. Not sure if 3D touch is a step forward or step back.
What would you prefer their policy on censorship be? Though I was unaware of CloudFlare and this situation, I believe that one compromise can easily lead to a slippery slope.

How do you see protocols (bittorrent or ipfs, for example) where content can not be removed as long as someone has a copy - are we better off without their existence in your opinion?
New iPhone 6S upgrade pricing – a winner?
The $32 per month fee for a new unlocked phone every year sounds pretty compelling, doesn't it? What are the reasons not to do it?
It is so crazy how this is the PC wars all over again. Apple comes out of the gate with huge marketshare, begins to lose it due to their insufferable snobbery, panics and tries to copy everyone without alienating their base of insufferable snobs and with frilly copies that only the kool-aid drinkers fall for, and continues its descent into irrelevance. Will Samsung have to save Apple from extinction in 10 years in order to keep the DOJ off its back? Stay tuned.
Well, in that case, the word "Apple" is really unnecessary. That's true in pretty much every product announcement thread.
What version of DOS was this? I seem to remember MASM being a rather expensive piece of software which didn't ship with DOS.
It doesn't cost $3. Not even an iPad charger costs are that low.

Of course, no brand chargers made in China could reach that price point but one just have to do a Hacker News search to figure out what they are sacrificing.
I don't think he was implying that; he was saying that there needs to be a book "Programming in Rust" written by someone outside the Rust projects, e.g. like Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt did with the Pickaxe book for Ruby back in the early 2000s.
You're missing the point of live photos then. They're not supposed to be video, they're supposed to be photos plus a little extra.
Everything you need to know about the new iPad
Worth the read. Matt Might does really interesting things and explains what he does well. His blog is worth checking out.
Next up: "Live photos can now be 10 seconds long, for more information than ever before!"
What's truly funny is that Surface Pro can run OS X with a bit (actually, a lot) of fiddling.
At this point, I'm not sure how bottled Soylent can distinguish itself from other bottled dietary replacements like Ensure, aside from the name.
Yes, I meant to a floppy.
Fire TV has a bluetooth remote control with voice search, and an app store... and so does Google. Room for improvement but Apple's looks substantially similar to them both. Unless they've arranged a lot more gaming content than the android equivalents it's just going to be another netflix box + itunes, vs netflix + amazon prime, vs netflix + google play movies.
https://i.imgur.com/sV4SZyD.png

What is going on with Apple's line-up? This is unnecessarily confusing.
I figure the simplest thing to do is have an Accessibility option to disable it completely for some users.
I didn't know apple invented multi-touch.
Sorry, I'm not using an extension built for marketing your company, even if it is GPL licensed.

Also, I get that regex is how you do it on iOS9 and it's fast on there because of Apple's specific regex implementation, but you're misleading people that your 7 humongous regex are going to be faster than flagship blockers (uBlock Origin) on the desktop.
In all fairness I know many people who love to draw on the Surface and really wanted a more precise pen type of input on the iPad; I think this was a long time coming and really necessary.

The keyboard cover thing? Sure I could agree with you on that. I actually think Surface did a better job with it especially with the adjustable kickstand but we'll see when I can actually touch and play with the iPad Pro one.
Those are metaphors and metonyms. MS Word is not a word. MS Office is not an office. Facebook Messenger is literally a thing that carries messages. Apple Watch is literally a watch.
Oh please, a stylus worked better on my old 3.5 inch PDA than any stupid touch gestures do for my 4.7 inch Android phone. Arrows on the keyboard? What the fuck are arrows?

Marketing just pushed styli (?) and hardware keyboards out, the latter is something I really miss on my phone...
Would someone explain to me why there's so much hate towards the base model? I really, truly don't understand what's wrong with offering an entry level device? I carry a 16GB 6+ and am quite happy with it.
Apple is in the business of selling legal content through iTunes, and to my knowledge there is no way of legally obtaining non-DRMed video files of movies or TV shows. Making piracy more convenient would be a surprising move.

However, I wouldn't be surprised if someone was able to use the SDK to write a XBMC-like app.
Yep I loved the idea of the surface; tried to use it to replace my mb air for but ended up returning it because the ecosystem was terrible and the keyboard was annoying.
It seems like such a waste of plastic and cardboard. Makes me think of Keurig k-cups and how it's been deemed an environmental mess. I'm sure the Soylent bottles are recyclable but it's still a waste to be shipping all that weight around (including the water).

I hope they make a vending machine that mixes it on the spot.
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I wouldn't imagine a device like that to literally goes out without any decent content creation thought in mind. I'm sick of using my medium (now) screen iPad as a comment maker. I want to use it for development. I want my iPad to run WebStorm , SublimeText, GitHub.

I want a jailbreak iOS that is capable of running a desktop Apps on that new desktop-performance iPad.

This should've been the big news about the new big-size iPad.
Sure if you can get your app into the App Store. Why not?
And is in fact how Rust represents Option<T>. There's also a trait, http://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/core/nonzero/struct.NonZero.... , which can be used to ensure a structure you build also has said representation.
There's not 4, there's 2: the 6S and the 6S Plus.

Just two flagships. And they are differentiated on size, that's all.

This is no different to the 5/5C situation really (in fact, a clearer differentiation tbh).

The previous years models have always been available since the 3GS was released.

Seems like you're running about 6 years behind the times...?
Oh, is that why? I thought current multi-touch technology interfered with the Wacom-style force sensor, but I could have imagined that.
Except that it's a terrible idea. Why would you take billions you make from doing work at a 30-40% margin and blow it buying a business that returns 5-10% margin at scale -- but only after 5-10 years of cash flow negative investment? Wouldn't a better idea be to invest in businesses that could potentially return 20% and are closer to your core skills as a business?

Google has many skills, but last-mile delivery networks aren't one of them. Not that they can't be, but it's just not that profitable of a business to waste their time on. The business itself is just a math problem balancing quality of service with investment -- and not a particularly difficult one.

Fortunately, that's not their play here: Google has invested far too little money in Fiber to be truly serious about it as a business. Fiber is just their way of generating consumer demand for higher speed pipes by saying "hey, look at this! this is how it should be!" They did the same thing on Android with the Nexus phones, so it's not even a new tactic for them.

> Google can eat a lot of the costs of setting up a better network, which is a great investment in the future if you're betting that a majority of people will need high speed internet access 10-20 years from now.

The problem is that you can't just build the network and be done with it. It costs a lot of money to maintain and provide service (approx. 10% of the original cost of the network per year), and that's money that Google will want to spend on other, more profitable things. Hell, if they want to get into infrastructure, the smart play would be free wireless Internet for the developing world (i.e. what Facebook is doing).

But again, Google hasn't spent anywhere near the amount of money on Fiber that they would need to in order to make it a commercially successful business. Because that's not the point: they're using cities like Kansas City and Austin to showroom their vision of what the Internet should be.
Problem solved: http://sideloadfiretv.com/add-kodi-xbmc-icon-to-fire-tvs-hom...

Simple step by step tutorial allows you to load Kodi from FireTV through any app icon.
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"No, no, the Surface Pro looks like our iPad Pro. Just ignore the specs" - Apple fans and iPad owners :-D
The part I'm wondering about: what happens if your iPhone is stolen/lost/destroyed?
According to [0], these "phones" are 5.4 and 6.2 inches tall (not diagonally). 5.4 inches should not be the "small" size phone. That's huge. I have reasonably large hands and I really hate this about my phone (I have a Nexus 5, which is around the same size as the iPhone 6S).

Please, let's make us some smartphones that are nice and compact and small. Or at least medium.

[0]: http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/specs/
I wrote a very similar tool one time:

https://github.com/smizell/geneva

It is Lisp in JSON. I did it for fun, but thought it would a cool way to send instructions across the wire from the server to the client and back. Imagine validation rules that could be ready in any language with really very little parsing instructions.
>the already functional yet unpopular AppleTV.

AppleTV has the biggest market share in streaming devices at around 40%...
um.. yes? I can't imagine getting an iphone every year when you can just get one every 2 years for a third of the price.
I would love to try the pre-bottled version, but unfortunately I'm allergic to soy. I wish they would give an option of the type of protein used since soy is a fairly common allergy.
Looking at the nutrition facts, with 5 bottles (2000 calories) a day you get 60% daily value of fiber, is that percentage enough or I'm missing something here?
I have too but requiring my finger to be touched (over top of the message) doesn't seem like it'll benefit.

The shortcuts are nice, though.
I agree, it's kind of ridiculous. I don't own an iPhone but "support" my wife, mother and mother in law who ALL have major issues with space and iCloud space to the point where they have to pay for additional money.

The new iPhone 6S will make this issue much worse. 4K video, larger pictures, "live" pictures (oh god). The small memory on these devices and lack of SD is intentional to push iCloud and device upgrades.
and with the iPad: "big deal, it's just a large iPhone".

The fact that most of HN seems to hate or deride these features (like the Live Photos thing) tells me that they'll likely be a huge success and all be using them in a year.
Seems like its only 2 gig. They touted the ability to edit video on this in relation to its CPU/GPU prowess but fail to mention the all important ram.
This isn't editing anything but a 1 minutes HD video with 2 gigs of ram.
These techcrunch articles are little more than Apple press releases (i.e. ads)
Every time I see this it amazes me how little rivers represent of the whole fresh water available and how much Antarctica does.
who cares.
The 'this' I think you're referring to is motion control. While the Wii certainly didn't change the world it was very revolutionary and drew its competitors to copy w/ the Kinect and PS Move. Something revolutionary in this day and age will definitely be some VR related breakthrough.

In any case, it wasn't what I was referring to. I'm referring to the idea of bringing the iOS marketplace to the big screen. It's the most adopted marketplace of both users and developers and while there isn't much to show for it now on the Apple TV I think time will bring many options of entertainment.
The point is that it doesn't say anything about what it does. A programming language could be described as a "easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data." It processes and distributes data? That just sounds like a computer.
That's doesn't sound much different than UK asking Facebook and Google to censor "extremist speech" on their platforms.
nice. that would be awesome.
Plex on AndroidTV is a different interface than the version that exists on FireTV. It's more polished than the FireTV version, but the recent additions to all the plex apps around recommendations really annoy me. I don't want Plex to try to be Netflix, I want it to show me unwatched videos in one section and all videos in another section, and that's basically it. Plex on iOS does the same thing, though, so my guess is that Plex on the apple TV won't be better.
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This is where tech vs. business breaks down.

Tech thinks everything has to be new, unique, novel, and the-best-in-the-world.

Business is all about differentiation and marketing and getting inside customer minds. Even if Soylent was Ensure re-branded, they can still have a business by being "fuel for the tech crowd" instead of "feeding tube fuel" http://www.amazon.com/Nestle-Healthcare-Nutrition-85140100-U...

It's all the same product. You're paying to belong to a brand/cult for a personal enjoyment experience (I drink the same sludge as VCs! I'm awesome!!), not because the products are substantially different.

What's the end-game with Soylent anyway? Soylent will be sold to Nestle, the feeding tube people, not to Tesla or Apple or Microsoft or Adobe.
Yeah for a long time it was higher the version number the better and the rest was old, sold at refurbished. Now they have new with lower version numbers selling along side the other ones? There goes that simplicity. Maybe in the end this is better for the bottom line but it's just uncharacteristic.