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It's not a complete falsehood but it's a totally empty statement.

Virtually any device you put out that's not exactly, spec-by-spec the same, you can say 'never been a product like this before'. It's true and empty.

They do a lot of those, they're true, hyperbolic, and totally devoid of any significance.

For example they'll say 'the iPhone 6 was the most popular iPhone ... EVER'. As if it's significant. But that's completely unexpected and it's not news, either. I'll happily take a 10 trillion dollar bet that the iPhone 7 will sell even better. And that the new Galaxy S 6 sells better than the 5, and the 7 will sell better than the 6, too.

Or they'll say the iPhone 6S is the most advanced iPhone ... EVER. As if, again, that's news. As if we think they built a 6S that's worse than the 6.

It's a truthful, hyperbolic, totally insignificant statement. It's different from a falsehood.

Calling a 3 second video, a photo, in the sense that it's a bunch of photo frames, that's more of a direct falsehood to me. We use the word photo to denote a still image, and video for multiple frames of photos. But that's a marketing gimmick that's more ridiculous than it is disingenuous.

As for innovation, I mostly agree. The ability to execute extremely well and polish your work isn't innovation. It can be driven by innovations of course but it's not the kind of innovation we talk about when we refer to Apple's history. Since the iPhone 4 I've mostly felt a ton of polish but no real breakthroughs on the phone department for example, tablet wise... mostly just solid iterations like everyone else, nothing fundamentally innovative about the iPad 4 or Air or mini, really. Pro feels like more of the same, split screen we've seen before, styluses we've seen before. Again, executed well and polished.

I mean of course there's innovation, but it's not what sets them apart. Look at Force Touch for example, now 3D touch. People probably missed the fact Huawei demo'd force touch last week on their android phone. And that's a feature we'd think of as their innovation. Others, like a large tablet, split screen, type covers, wireless charging, a stylus, 3-second videos (called live photos) etc are all seen before.
I do. Which is why I looked up Germany too. Even in the UK using mm and inches for different dimensions of the same box is weird.
I wonder how much higher they can offer with current technology. If you peek inside one of those 2.5" SSD boxes, it's not full to the brim but it's not empty either. I would actually expect them to go to 256GB in the next year or so, because that has been the general pattern (as far as I remember, the first iPhone maxed out at 16GB)
USB should always be available ... for emergencies and other purposes
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Referenced in the article:

"“The biggest worry for me is, are we getting too locked in a formula?” asks Schiller. He recalls the 2002 Worldwide Developers Conference, at which Steve Jobs delivered a eulogy for Mac OS9, complete with cheesy organ music, a smoke machine, and a casket rising through the middle of the stage. “We haven’t done anything quite that outlandish in a long time. It may be part of being a bigger company, not this small upstart. We feel a little uncomfortable being too strange and getting too far away from ourselves.”"

The video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1SLCAiGkVQ
While you're right that convincing people that they're being stupid is generally a waste of time, it's no more or less a waste of time than posting a comment on the internet wondering why other people post comments on the internet.
Android apps have shared access to the "memory card" (often simulated, e.g. on Nexus devices), so they can interact through that.

Hell, in Android you can even run Debian without rooting: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cuntubuntu...
Verizon’s 5G service is faster than Google Fiber, will begin to roll out in 2017
A big part of the success with the 68k switch over was that the 68k line was getting long at the tooth. Clock for clock 601 would trounce 68040 (even the 486 was faster per clock). Plus the base 601 was at 60Mhz, while the fastest 040 based mac was 40Mhz (the quadra 840av, of which I picked up one a few years later for $40, and still have it).

So apple was working with something north of 3x the raw performance, its no wonder that most people with older macs that weren't anywhere near the performance of the 840AV thought the powermac was incredible.
You should edit your post and remove the "mobile" part from the URL.

Meanwhile, for everyone not seeing what the fuss is about, here's the correct link:

https://twitter.com/SciencePorn/status/634547730271064064?s=...
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Of course they didn't. That never prevented Steve from claiming they did...
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Depends on your interpretation of "behind in absolute numbers". A toy example:

1980: Apple has 10% of a 100,000,000-phone market. We could call this a gap of 90,000,000.

1981: Apple has 15% of a 200,000,000-phone market. We could call this a gap of 170,000,000. What happened was that while Apple's market share grew, it grew much slower than the market itself.

I guess you might want to look at the world that way; for example, if you wanted to know how difficult it would be to convince the entire market to switch to your product. But I tend to agree that market share would seem to be more useful for most purposes.
I don't. Care to explain ?
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Regulations, IMO, should describe behavior, not implementation details. If my fully customized ECU still passes emissions tests, then nobody should have any say about whatever else I do or do not do with it.
That's because they are not a OEM that throws hardware together trying to differentiate, no matter what the software using it will be like. Apple added NFC the day they had the software and the service ready, with all the intricacies in making a secure and private payment system, that works offline, is as fast or faster than swiping a card with no passwords to type, and that makes them make money but without charging more neither the users neither the merchant, and is interoperable with existing credit cards and banks (including the per-bank customized provisioning process).

Putting everything together is several order of magnitude harder than adding a part number to a BOM years before the ecosystem is ready to use it appropriately. They had to get there feature by feature, one at a time. Touch ID was a stepping stone for instance, and that's a whole engineering and design task by itself. It's a multi-year evolution to get to the point of adding a service that incidentally happens to use NFC as one of the many involved technologies. So, no, they did not "add NFC" without Apple Pay.
Samsung Announces New LPDDR4 Chips, Expect 6 GB of RAM in Smartphones Soon
DOMINATION.
Parent can't actually downvote you (just as you can't downvote this post), FYI.
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The key part of that last statement is have to.

You're right that as a matter of routine, having recent documents worked with in an app come up on opening it (and an easy visual list of all the files the app has touched) is a great interaction pattern.

That says nothing about whether or not there should be some kind of file browser, or other means for users to become aware and able to interact with files outside an app.

Particularly because at some point, single-app workflows hit their limits, and getting stuff done either becomes a matter of using multiple apps or waiting for an app to grow the new feature you need (the latter of which is not just getting stuff done).

And I'm not just talking about Power Users -- I've seen this happen with my mom (proverbial disinterested computer user), who generally is quite happy to be completely unaware of the file system, but still periodically runs into corner cases where she needs to do something no single app will let her do (usually audio-file related).

This all reminds me of the discussion around hiding URLs in browsers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7677898

For decades, we had a system where people who didn't care to pay any attention to URL bars could ignore them, and people who were incidentally curious could learn useful things by paying attention, people who needed to discover them could, and people found them regularly useful had them at the ready.

Then somebody who got caught up in a shallow idea of simplicity that neglects utility and discoverability decided they'd make a UX change that was hostile to all of latter two groups. After all... the first group doesn't care, they just want to navigate the web and get stuff done.

The right principle here is to make the simple case easy and obvious, and the more complex case discoverably possible.
Well it's there for apple things like Apple Pay. There's no real incentive for them to open it up to developers unless they're controlling the space. i.e. for Apple Pay it's nice, or say to unlock your car, or unlock your home's door with Home Kit, but random NFC thingies? They're not really interested.
Despite that, companies like Apple have hundreds of billions in revenues. Which is to say, the falling prices aren't a real problem. After all, the same person could say they could get the same thing for even cheaper in 2 years, 3 years, 5 years or 10 years.
I have perhaps an ignorant question...

So the earth's mass essentially causes a distortion in space time which causes gravity. My question is, even to the smallest nth degree, why don't we observe other objects on earth with their own gravitational field?

For example if I take a giant ball of lead, and I move it around in a vacuum but on earth, why doesn't it act like it has its own magnetic field and cause dust (again, in a vacuum) to be disrupted as the field passes over them?

Has this effect been observed (under controlled conditions)?
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The iPad Mini 3 is just an iPad Mini 2 with touchID. They probably figured touchID should remain a differentiating feature to upcharge for.
A little surprised apple didn't create they're own game controller...I think it would make Apple TV even a bit more compelling overall.
Is that really the definitive metric though? Seems like you'd want to compare overall program-text size between equivalent binaries for x86[-64] and $otherarch (i.e. x86 may be able to get away with fewer of those ~same-size instructions due to each of them doing slightly more on average).
For a better camera

I use an iPhone 4. Battery life went to hell at one point now it's back to being decent. It was a software problem.

Wouldn't mind it being slightly thinner, lighter, bigger with better screen and far better camera. But now the screens got too big.
>the once innovative company is now playing catch up

Apple never did the VERY first products of a category. There was Xerox before Lisa, PDAs before Newton, mp3 players before the iPod, smartphones before the iPhone, tablets before the iPad, smartwatches before the Apple Watch, etc.

The only did the first products of a category that were where at least half-thought out (instead of rushed crap), and people actually wanted to buy in droves.
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If innovation were what mattered, everyone would be browsing with Opera.
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It's the standard

". No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. "

response.

http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...
Yes, I'm digressing. Guilty as charged. Nevertheless, I think it's a somewhat-on-topic digression.

If there's a wall at 2,000 lines, almost all language-advocacy examples are below that wall. That's the first wall. But language choice doesn't get interesting until you ask what the language does at the 20,000-line wall or the 200,000-line wall. Nobody talks about this when they advocate a language (except, as I said, Go). The closest are Haskell and Lisp, and their claim is that you can write the same program in fewer lines (so that you don't hit any of the walls as quickly).
Ah, you're talking about the Wilshire route vs the 'Pink' line / West Hollywood route & associated time frame.
I thought you were talking about the opposition indicated per the parent post, regarding the Beverly Hills High School opposition to the Avenue of the Stars / Constellation stop vs the Santa Monica Blvd / Avenue of the Stars stop.

I largely agree with your points but the 'Think of the children' aspect wasn't just contained to that aspect; they had fears of ISIS attacks as recently as last year.

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/09/bev_hills_paper_warns_...
You mean strips it off it's usability and charge more?
Apple "dominance" is rather endemic, eventually there will be no reason to pay the 100% - 300% markup.
Sure, the apple stores look nice, until you see what you actually get for the price
So it's unrelated to the gamma trick in this article?
To you. It looks better to me. It depends what you expect and need. But I'll have to try it to claim something explicitly.
If we develop tech to predict when seizures happen, we need contextualized data
Those gifs make the article impossible to read
Exactly.

I think Apple is primarily trying to attract artists and other creative types with the Pro. A good friend of mine is planning on giving up his Wacom and moving to an iPad Pro instead.
What a cool interface, I love DF and I would love to see what this guy can do.
Ill throw him a few bucks on the github and screenshots alone.
I didn't see the entire demo, but can I write on it? I have a pencil, can I write words and have them come out as text? I'm happy to write in Palm's Graffitti. It works now for iDevices and my finger, but the new pencil would make that easier.

Looking for the ad that says: "I'm an enterprise business drone, I go to meetings, I need to take notes. I use my iPad Pro and my iPencil and by the time I walk out of the room the meeting notes are to my team."

Otherwise it's not something I can use. While my doodles make my co-workers laugh, not sure that my PHB wants to buy me one of these....
All corporations have a primary responsibility to benefit their shareholders.

Wandering off-topic as I am, that's just an opinion that gained ground in the seventies. Not everyone thinks it's a good idea and with any luck it'll die eventually.
If weight loss is your goal, it's actually cheaper and easier and far, far more pleasant to just make smoothies for a couple of meals a day. Here's an easy one that I make all the time:

* 1/2 cup yogurt

* 1/2 cup juice (apple, orange, whatever)

* 1 banana, peeled

* 3-4 frozen strawberries

* 1/2 cup frozen blueberries

Toss in blender. Blend. Consume. Rinse out blender. From assembling ingredients to rinsing the blender, the whole process can be performed in <10 minutes, and is far less disgusting and dehumanizing than consuming bland nutrient goo. Total ingredient cost for one week of daily smoothies is <$10.

A big part of what makes us human is that we take pleasure in eating good food. It's a shame to throw that part of your humanity away unnecessarily.
Since the companies adopted the slab form factor for the devices. all smartphone and tablets look the same esp. from the front.

I don't see this argument holding water and it seems to me that my interlocutor is comfortable with Apple stealing/copying other people's work but when they do to Apple it's all hell breaks loose, double standards maybe?
I wasn't trying to imply that the TLD creates more votes, but that the more cool sites built on a TLD, the more interest there will be in that TLD
Well, they're still selling it NOW; the new one doesn't come out til next month. I assume it'll vanish at that point.
The problem is spatial distribution, not amounts.

Saying we have far more than is being used is true, but misses the forest for the trees. Some areas have lots of water resources, some don't.

Unfortunately our water usage is almost inversely correlated to water resource availability. Arid soils are _incredibly_ productive when irrigated, so we grow a lot of crops in the desert (or semi-desert). Also, people like to live in dry, sunny places. Dry, sunny places usually don't have abundant water resources.
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>Rust tries to avoid stuffing everything into the standard library

That's a valid philosophy, but also one that leads to problems with fragmentation, quality, portability, dependency management, and compiler support.

Concurrent IO is surely important enough to standardize.
If the $650 pricetag for the hardware described in the post leaves a bad taste in your mouth, you can use a fifteen dollar (including shipping) SDR from China[0] for basically the same spectrum coverage and utility[1].

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/RTL2832U-Low-Cost-Software-Compatible-...
[1]: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/
>In theory these Aquifers could be used as a cheap form of transport...

For what it's worth, an aquifer isn't an underground river... It's solid rock. What would you be transporting?
It's about the patents.

"while OpenH264 is not truly open, at least it is the most open widely used video codec"

http://andreasgal.com/2014/10/14/openh264-now-in-firefox/
The functionality is available within the context of the feature you're using. If it's a Word document you open the document, click the share icon and click "Send Attachment". Apple's Pages also has a Share icon that even lets you easily convert to Word, PDF, or ePub format before sending.

For attaching whilst composing an email in Gmail (what I use) there's an "Attach" icon that lets you attach photos or files from Google Drive. Whilst Apple's Mail lets you click the cursor on where you want to add the Photo/Video.
We have observed the gravitational field generated by lead balls. The classic example is the Cavendish experiment [1] which is rather important historically for figuring out the value of the gravitational constant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment
It's marketing. And when it comes to marketing its far more true than that Lynx will get you laid (lol), or that some new detergent will revolutionaze how clean your clothes are, or that some GAP clothes will make you part of the "in" crowd.

It's also depends on the level we're talking. If we just take "product like the iPad pro" to mean "a large tablet" then yes it's a "complete falsehood".

But it obviously means "a large tablet with this attention to detail, with the supporting OS and app ecosystem finely tuned to work along with it". Which is true -- as all Surface tablets I've seen are if not subpar, different in several ways.
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment is the original.
This is great!

We run Quizlet behind Cloudflare, and use Google Cloud for all our server infrastructure (>150 VMs). We've been very happy on both platforms. We'll be saving around $2k/mo on bandwidth because of this deal, and we didn't have to lift a finger. Yay :)

Happy to answer any questions about either platform.
Who cares what Steve Jobs thinks? He's dead.
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I hope all those working on it like this got a great compensation back for the extra hours/days:

"...to the point where everyone was having to work seven days a week, all waking hours, for almost a year."
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Yes.

It might make more sense, actually, if you think of 'racism' as being devoid of any meaning other than an expression of political opprobrium.

It only becomes confusing if you think of racism as actually meaning what it's supposed to mean: discrimination on the basis of race alone.
>For example they'll say 'the iPhone 6 was the most popular iPhone ... EVER'. As if it's significant. But that's completely unexpected and it's not news, either. I'll happily take a 10 trillion dollar bet that the iPhone 7 will sell even better. And that the new Galaxy S 6 sells better than the 5, and the 7 will sell better than the 6, too.

You understand that sales growth can't last forever right?
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Steve is celebrating having 3000 apps. Apple sure was small in 2002.
Very interesting indeed. I guess 2 factors are:

* some people don't like change in general, some are afraid of it. This also brings the same question: why? I have no idea, but there are plenty of guesses, e.g: https://hbr.org/2012/09/ten-reasons-people-resist-chang.html

* some kind of a "bad experience" with Soylent. It can be just an article about "busy people drinking Soylent" which creates negative internal representation of a Soylent as a drink for the crazy, out of this world busy people
I suppose if I go with the spirit of your statement, it is possible to argue that both computers and medicine were done in some form or another for the last 5 thousand years (think abacus, folk herbalism, etc). It is just that we have figured out how to leverage greater resources (including information) to do those in a much more effective way.

On the other hand, the combination of embodied knowledge and chemical energy to create machines, i.e. the internal combustion engine, is a truly novel achievement of our civilization.
The idea that facial skin needs to be aggressively exfoliated daily or multiple times daily is one of the bigger lies the cosmetic industry has sold us, and we'll all pay for it.
Many developers see Apple as a competitor, and Apple has had a long history of putting their platform's developers out of business. For example, iTunes destroyed the market for music library software.
It's a fine use of XML. JSON would be a kludge. The templates look like this:

<lockup>
<img src="${this.BASEURL}resources/images/music/music_570_e1.lcr" width="450" height="450" />
<title class="showTextOnHighlight">Title 1</title>
</lockup>
Apps can still block airplay and mirroring.
Inflation acts as a tax on dollar-denominated savings. A modest inflation rate encourages people to do something with their dollars other than put them under the mattress.
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Work uses Two Factor Authentication using certificates. Presently they are on a USB smart card or a device with a smart card reader. So far it works well on Surface and Android tablets. Did anybody see the iOS9 section if they will support certificates? Living in a smartcard world, this is also a must. Apple hasn't cracked the Citrix world so far, they keep saying iOSx+1.
SIMD, lock free data structures, and ARC pointers are great. But what's the timeline for concurrent IO (either async or coroutines)? Preferably one that is stable, portable, and efficient (mio isn't the first two).

>Statically preventing data races is an enormous leap forward in the state of the art

The borrow checker is a great achievement. But it doesn't prevent deadlocks. And because Rust doesn't provide higher level concurrency tools than threads and mutexes, deadlocks are going to be a significant problem in practice until such tools are standardized.
Have tried it?
Sell it and you'll probably get half your money back.
Selling to schools is possible, but takes a long time and is full of politics. It looks more like an "enterprise" sales ultimately.

Many teachers are very excited to try anything that is free, since allocating budget is an arduous process. Do not take that to mean that they will pay for your product.

This does not mean there's not value, but it may not have a paid monetization path in the short term.
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