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Apple convinced me to upgrade from my 4S by intentionally slowing it down with every subsequent iOS update. I wouldn't have bought the 6S if I could put an older iOS on the 4S.
>I am sure that farmer's would rather risk their livestock than risk their children or grandchildren.

you're kidding right? sure economical impact today vs. theoretical risk to grand/children tomorrow - Nov 8 will show how many people and of what demographics what choice would make, and I'm somehow sure what choice the farmers would make :)
This is a great talk, the speaker details some of the ways he tries to protect his own privacy and how useless that can be.
I just have a bluetooth car device that jacks into the Aux port. It also gives you tactile buttons for bt audio control. With a two-usb port cig. port charger, one powers the bluetooth audio, the other my charger.
iPads are really compelling as an audio controller, particularly with great multitouch support.
Yay! I can finally make sure Seed-DB data is 100% correct (rather than 95% correct) - http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011
You still have to pick an entity to bill from. If that is a foreign entity the US customers need a special form from you to do business with you https://www.irs.gov/uac/form-w-8ben-certificate-of-foreign-s...

And having a postal box office doesn't solve cashing a foreign check in the Netherlands.

So as a first step I recommend incorporating a US entity (Inc. in Delaware), setting up the PO box (we used Earth Class Mail), and getting a bank account (heard good things about first republic bank).
It's slightly better because at that point presumably you've failed auditing standards for many browsers, not just one. We're talking about "you tried to deliberately compromise security and get away with it by deliberately lying to take advantage of the loophole we'd provided you." With proof of that level of malfeasance, especially if it's widespread for new certs, it is plausible that Chrome and Firefox will both remove your certs, with Edge or Safari possibly coming up quickly behind. Presumably all of this would be "we are publicly announcing that we are dropping this CA in a month" to allow graceful switching...
Did you read what I wrote? Available data on blacks specifically is completely irrelevant if blacks and whites aren't fundamentally different. The white model will generalize.

If repayment probability for blacks and whites alike is is A x downpayment_fraction + B x credit_score, you can use training data from whites and the model will accurately predict black repayment probability. It only fails if you actually need A' and B' for blacks.

As an example, maybe for whites A = 1.0 and for blacks A' = 0.75. In that case the optimal decision is to demand higher lending standards for blacks - a black person with a 40% downpayment would be treated the same as a white person with a 30% downpayment. Is this your belief?
HTC One (M8), launched March 2014 can do this:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7893/the-htc-one-m8-review/2
Lone wolfs are called that for a reason.
Also, uninterrupted listening to music for several hours straight can be damaging to your ears, even if you're not playing at a high volume, or so I've heard. I enjoy listening to music but I think it's important to take breaks.

I can't afford an iPhone but I have an iPod touch and a Bluetooth wireless headphone set that has good battery charge which I bought this summer following my set of previous generation 3.5mm audio jack headphones having broken down after 5 years or so of active use, and I do appreciate not having to charge my headphones too often, but I think if the headphones are easy to charge alongside the iPhone and iPods, users will find that it is unlikely to be much of an inconvenience.

While we are on the subject, I must say that I am very pleased with using wireless headphones with my iPod. IMO, the advantage of never having a wire dangling around your upper body and being a general annoyance far outweighs the inconvenience of having to charge them now and then.

The only thing that I am a little sad about with the wireless headphones is that while they work excellently with my iPod and the audio quality is impeccable for me, if I connect them to my desktop computer, which I run Fedora 23 Linux on, then the audio quality is complete garbage. With my laptop, which I run FreeBSD on, I am not able to use audio over Bluetooth at all. I found some reference to A2DP support under FreeBSD, and I think A2DP is the name of it, but have not had time to figure out if it is usable and if it is then how to make use of it.

My Bluetooth headphones do have a 3.5mm cable which I can plug into it but I've only used that twice. I might have to begin using the cable for a little while since my iPod charger cable broke and I am waiting for a new one to come in the mail so I can't use my iPod right now and as I said, the audio over Bluetooth is not working well for me in Linux and FreeBSD.
Bullshit in our lives
It's about convenience and also distribution costs. It simply isn't very efficient putting water into a bunch of tiny bottles and selling them individually.

If you want cheap "bottled" water, find a place that has a reverse-osmosis vending machine. Basically, you bring your own bottles (it's better if you get the big 3 or 5-gallon jugs), put them in, put in some money, press a button, and it refills the bottle using the RO equipment in the machine. The cost is generally pretty cheap: $0.25-50 per gallon (I pay $0.37 locally). It's not as cheap as tap obviously, but it's a lot cheaper than gasoline, or pre-packaged bottled water, and a whole lot cheaper than overpriced fancy brands like Evian.
Do you shower with your phone often? =)
Consoles have always been a special case, though. For one thing, the entire API is usually under NDA, so a different graphics system is the least of your problems.
The standard connectors have a horrible tendency to break through mechanical wear after a few years. On the laptop side, not the charger side.

They also take the laptop with them then pulled by a kid or fell over on.

If there's a problem with the MagSafe, it's that the cable itself breaks after 12-18 months due to lack of stress relief, requiring an expensive replacement and inspiring people to buy $15 euro fire starters.

Complain about Apple being too cheap to hire some proper engineers to build the cable, not the brilliantly designed connector.
I'll buy one when it's solar powered like my current watch.
> And yet most people still need to buy external DVD/Blu-ray drives.
I don't agree with you on that point, and that's coming from someone who has a computer which came with a DVD drive. I've literally used it maybe, what, twice since I got it? And honestly I can't find an example off the top of my head of a mac-owning friend of mine who'd complain about not having a optical drive on their machine.
I suppose the only deterrent people can hope for is they'll be dead soon without the case?
Hey, again, if living that kind of marginal existence ("I avoid the web as much as possible" ... and "Be offline as much as possible" ... and "If they insist on exposing me to their "smoke" (or, negative externalities), then I cut the contact.") suits you, that's great. I commend you, and I hope you continue to get everything out of life you want.

I'm not satisfied with that kind of inconvenience. These are, ultimately, social issues, not technical ones. For me, the solution must come from society (and consequently, become enshrined in law).

Dodging the big picture privacy issue with "avoiding the web as much as possible" and "cutting the contact" doesn't work for me.

EDIT: Whoa! You made some pretty big edits there! Mark those puppies next time, mister!
> Placing folks around the globe doesn't really help with the weekend or holiday situation.

Given that non-working "weekends" and "holidays" aren't global standards, it kind of can , though arrangements to simultaneously mitigate those situations and working hours situations may be more complex than ones intended to handle only one or the other problem.
Low light situations. You shouldn't need software to compensate for the light level (as much).
By adding GPS it seems like they're really doubling down on the ~1 day battery life, which is really annoying. And keep in mind it's not actually a full day if you _use_ the thing. For instance I was trying to compare a Fitbit Charge HR and the Apple Watch in terms of how they tracked my heart rate over a hike a couple months ago. It was an 8 mile loop with some good elevation gain -- took me maybe 4 hours. The Apple Watch died 3/4 of the way through the hike despite being fully charged that morning. The Charge HR has lasted 3 and 4 day trips to the Sierras with room to spare, and it's always capturing heart rate, whereas the Apple Watch is really only doing that when I tell it to.
My car lags something fierce -- like a whole second or more. But my regular bluetooth headphones doesn't lag at all when connected to my phone or tablet. I even bluetooth-tether my tablet to my phone for Netflix and then listen over bluetooth.

Seems to me it's a solved problem for most devices.
Correction: I meant to say I made the practical implications of theory accessible via articles, seminars, books.
The only way to claim they are not accessible is in the absence of basic foundation knowledge.
The Linux project (https://www.linux.com/blog/top-10-developers-and-companies-c...) and Debian (https://wiki.debian.org/Statistics) track a fair amount of data.
That "courage" bit may be the most pretentious and ridiculous thing I've heard Apple say to date, and that's clearing some high bars. They're a consumer electronics company, not doctors without borders.
When the Apple Watch was first announced, there were rumors of the watch being able to measure blood glucose. That was exciting news.

So it was disappointing to find out that this was not true. (while writing this comment, I dug around and it seems that there is now Glucowise that will supposedly ship this year).

I believe that Apple Watch has the potential to become a life changing device for many and I look forward to the day that bloodless blood sugar monitoring is a feature for the Watch.
The S6 and S7 have really good cameras, competitive with the iPhone absolutely.
I suspect the lack of jack is a question of advertising / creation of a new environment to force people keep their Bluetooth on. Would that be among the reasons why Apple made that choice?
Not on the phones. Usually battery life is no where near as good as advertised.
If you manage to renegotiate your contract/EULA with Apple or Facebook or Google because of your impressive ability to read and understand them, let me know.

In reality, the power these companies have means there is no negotiation. They are gatekeepers to nearly necessary tools to exist in society (especially for the non-tech-savvy) and they can put whatever rules they want on those gates. Your choices are to do whatever they want or walk away.

In fact, I'd posit it's a waste of time for someone who isn't a privacy attorney to read these take-it-or-leave-it-style "contracts" since you HAVE to accept them, and the only things you can argue about or discuss are provisions in the contract which are illegal or unenforceable, and that discussion happens much later in front of a judge.

The ONLY way we can protect ourselves from these abusive contracts (particularly the pervasive and rights-destroying mandatory binding arbitration clauses) is to use legislation to delete them from existence.

Nearly all tech companies try to use noncompetes to keep their employees in a brutal stranglehold and stop them from shopping around to try to earn the market value of their labor. California is where tech goes to flourish and startups abound, because noncompetes are banned there.

We need to ban mandatory binding arbitration altogether (there is no reason it should have ever been legal), and have very strict guidelines about what kinds of privacy/tech contracts are allowed -- with punishments for companies who violate, strict ones.
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I might go this route too. I love my urbane, it has great looks and, well, great everything, but charging a watch once every two days is getting old. I'm starting to suspect that OLED is a dead-end and that consumers don't want these watches mainly because of the charging hassle. Pebble seems to be the only company taking e-paper watches seriously. I understand you can't have smooth animations and video and such with e-paper, but its a watch, not a mini-phone. Too much of Android Wear relies on the concept of a mini-phone. Same SoC as a phone, same type of screen, etc.
How does your couch destroy your charger cord?
You're not alone and I would expand this distinction to not only factor in popularity but functionality as well. CDs phasing out floppy disks may have been done in part for DRM purposes but the advantage was at least clear; 700MB is a hell of a lot more than 1.44MB. With the iPhone 7, Apple is taking away a time-tested feature in favor of alternatives which do not present clear advantages. Bluetooth headphones are annoying to pair and tend to have connectivity issues in conditions like rain. Lightning headphones are expensive and prohibitive. Dongles suck. As for AirPods, I'm not getting the sense that they provide much more in the way of functionality or sound than any traditional, run-of-the-mill pair of headphones. They certainly won't sound as good as my Audio Technica ATH-M50x. What do I have to be excited for?

I know it's hackneyed to glorify Steve Jobs but he always seemed to have his eye on the ball when it came to tech. Macintosh is the obvious example but if you look at his work at NeXT or building products like WebObjects, you see a CEO who predicted the resurgence of distributing computing and the overall dominance of networking in software. With the iPhone, Apple's move to phase out the physical keyboard on mobile devices was done to put content front and center - a design informed by Jobs' vision of a portable "post-PC" device that would act as the source of most of our media consumption.

What is the removal of the 3.5MM jack informed by? Trivial product metrics like thickness and water-resistance? A cynical attempt to make money from licensing proprietary standards? Or maybe Apple is going through the motions, asserting its reputation as a "gatekeeper" that dictates which standards should be left in the past.

Whatever the case may be, the iPhone 7 is not a compelling product. As an iPhone user, my next smartphone will most likely be an Android.
Most of the military FPS games I've played in the last 10 or so years with a story line have a ton of active military members credited. CoD4:MW [1] credits five active military personnel for advising, offers special thanks to several divisions of the USMC and US Army, and many of the other people given special thanks have be credited on several other military games (and nothing but).

These games are clearly great recruiting tools for the US military. I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually have evidence that the US military was a large influence behind the proliferation of military shooter games from 2004 onward. Perhaps pushing larger publishers to creating "realistic" games by offering them resources in exchange for casting the military in a favorable light. Much like how they influence Hollywood by giving them access to billion dollar war machines for their movies.

[1] Example: http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/call-of-duty-4-modern-...
Do the dongle doesn't work for you?
https://www.amazon.com/Antec-Portable-Bluetooth-Receiver-Hea...
Agreed. The case for having a case is when you want to keep resale value as high as possible, but even now that's not such an issue if you do the upgrade program where you automatically get a new phone every year and basically lease it.
From the video, I got the impression they're using their own custom radio solution, that allows them to more easily pair. We don't know much about the reliability of the new mechanism, however.

Edit: I am wrong
They moved the headphone jack to the bottom of the phone for a reason (I'm not sure offhand what the specific reason was, but there was one). They can't just move it back to the top.

> This is the cry of people who desperately want to love a company unconditionally

Insulting people is not how you win arguments.

Edit: Seriously guys, what's with the downvotes? I feel like I'm being brigaded at this point.
Can you point me to one? I've tried nearly a dozen of Chinese clones and they all suck compared to apple's. I hate to pay $30 for headphones but ended up going back to apple.
You are assuming they can work independent. I would not make that assumption.
A9 is amazingly fast - benches like twice as fast as every other phone out there. With Apple's great SSD it's a pretty powerful package for a phone. Instead they have lower power consumption now which I think is a fair call.
I would say you have to start by defining "real". Surely a simulation is real in the sense that it takes up physical resources, has to be internally consistent and other such criteria. Importantly, abstractions within it can have experiences that are just as meaningful as those outside.

Maybe it's about being a "top-level" universe, which is self-defining and without physical constraints? It seems ours is unlikely that if inflation theory pans out, instead being just a self-contained world in the multiverse, not so different than any other simulation.

Personally, but without much evidence, I suspect there are no top-level universes; perhaps they do cycle around though, so very large scales eventually become the very small.
It really was the dish sink. I wash the baby's bottles by hand.
In the keynote they showed stereo in the landscape configuration. They didn't talk about the portrait configuration. This is why I'm guessing that they might have stereo in portrait too, instead of stating it as fact.
Please provide links to these absolute destroyers.
No headphone jack, and it still breaks when you drop it. Not worth it.
The benchmark should be: How long can the phone run Pokemon Go before the battery dies.
As people noted it's because likely you have a current leakage. Read this post for more information: http://superuser.com/questions/462244/electric-shock-mild-vi...

I recently experienced this while travelling to India. Turns out the house I was staying at had a grounding issue and I couldn't do anything. This is less likely for most people and it's just better to use the cable with the grounding pin.
It's not. Teleporting from point A to B is not same as walking from A to B.
The point is that you can only hook up audio OR power, not both simultaneously.
An extra camera assembly does take up space in the case. Notice the iPhone 7 does not have a second camera, but the larger 7+ does.
...that begs the question, why not just do that in the first place though?
I put an Apple case on my iPhone 6 when I got it and recently took it off and the side screen swipes work a lot better. It was clearly designed to be used without a case, so it's strange that they sell them. Oh yeah, they make 20,000% profit on each one :P

I just worry about scratches though because I always sell my phones when I'm done with them.
Here in the UK, there are also a lot of rules around intermediaries and agency workers.
I'm disappointed by how boring the two-camera solution in the 7 Plus is. I was really hoping they were going show something interesting, like fusion of the two sensors through computational photography into one, with better low-light performance and less noise through downsampling. Or take +1 & -1 exposures simultaneously for a greater dynamic range.

Instead we got a button to switch from one lens to the other, for a 2x optical zoom. That's it. 99% of the time that second sensor and lens will do absolutely zilch. The computational bokeh appears to only use the 56mm lens for the actual photo, and the other lens to capture a depth map to compute the fake bokeh. This is hardly any better than the existing fake bokeh solutions shown many times before on Androids, Nokias and in iOS apps over the years that do the same, except it's a bit faster. The whole thing feels like just another checkbox feature, with very little actual value.
Does Apple prohibit to include audio sockets in case accessories?
Some kind o flush T-Type bottom dock for angled jacks and with pass-through charging lightning capabilities should be a a no-brainer then.

Otherwise a Bluetooth receiver with extended battery life to wired headphones seems more robust and practical to me anyway. Otherwise I never use headphones when on the go, so I cant really talk about that use case in practice.
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Looks like he took the deal at 250K.
I've been using the Plantronics Backbeat Fit for this purpose, and have been pleasantly surprised at the level of comfort / sound quality / battery life and the fact that they actually stay in.

http://www.plantronics.com/us/product/backbeat-fit (cheaper on Amazon).

Just another option to add to the list.
Don't count on it. Most people aren't interested in AR. And even when you mention it most people will tell you they'd "rather just use it like normal" (ie. no AR)

If you're talking about groundbreaking mixed reality, like the HoloLens or Magic Leap then maybe. Microsoft is doing the right thing by first marketing to business. The consumer tech isn't ready, and won't be for probably 5-10 years (to be at a place where it won't require any overhead.)
> If you are proposing selective schooling etc. there is a danger of creating social segregation which can reduce social mobility and as a result social cohesion

I get the abstract reason why one might think this in a vacuum, OTOH, we have real societies with selective schooling in place -- is there any evidence from experience to support that in net this hurts social mobility and/or cohesion?
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It's actually a pretty good deal. It costs a little bit more than buying the phone outright on day 1, but you get to pay over time.

If you trade in after only one year, you basically paid a dollar a day to rent the phone. But if you had bought one outright and sold it at the end of the year in order to buy the new model, you would not be a whole lot better off -- and you might have had to deal with potentially scummy eBay or Craigslist buyers.
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> It's a basic human right.

What do you mean by that? That phrase always struck me as an argument-ending non-argument. What if I disagree that you have a "right" to privacy in any meaningful way? What if I think that I have a basic human right to control the data you choose to upload to my server?
If either end of the connection is implemented crappily, then the quality will suffer.
The lightning port, mute switch, volume buttons, and power button still exist and are openings in the case edge.

If an opening for a 3.5mm jack was an issue for some future design, so would all of the other holes (esp. the lightning port).
When I send an unencrypted email, I consider that to be data out of my control, but at least my incoming mail is not getting scanned by anyone.
It's honestly a game of innovate or catch up. It's not like Apple is unique in this...
This list of useless startups is the reason why we haven't cured cancer, or eradicated famine yet.
Ah yes, the double dongle. The kind of elegant, problem-solving design I expect from Apple.
Without knowing any details aside from what you provided, it sounds like you are being seriously underpaid.
Which bluetooth headphones did you try? I have the following two and they work perfectly.

- Plantronics Backbeat Go

- Jabra Pulse

Both worked perfectly paired with my Surface Pro as well as my Nexus 6P. I also had a Nexus 6 prior to that and it paired to that device with no issues whatsoever as well.