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I don't think Apple jumped the gun, they hold the gun. Being a tech giant has its advantages, one being that you can push people into modifying their behaviour to adapt to your new products.

There will always be initial 'outrage' but that is nothing new. Apple have no doubt made a calculated decision, weighed up the pros and cons and determine this is the best course of action moving forward.

The iPhone6S series isn't going anywhere anytime soon and it's certainly still serviceable as a device, it didn't die today with the release of the iPhone7. If people are concerned, hold off on the purchase, do the research and make an informed decision for your own needs.
MS's OneNote has real-time collab capability.
There are 2 points that you seem to have overlooked.

First is budget. 4 min per month goal is not arbitrary; management has come with this number based on the monetary cost of downtime, and (ideally) is committed to expend a conmeasurate amount of resources (e.g. personnel, time, infrastructure, etc) to make this happen. It is OK to ask for a bullet proof application, but you have to be willing to pay big $$$ for kevlar. Issuing cardboard vests and then acting surprised when those fail to stop bullets is both stupid and unprofessional.

Second is rollbacks. If everything was working ok until today, then things begin failing a few hours after you push a new version, save trace data and go back to the previous version!!! This won't work every time, but more often than not it will save time.

Besides those points, you ask...

> ...1 hour of down time uses up over a year in failure budget! How can a team so heavily "in debt" ever hope to push code again?

The whole point is that you dont want a single big failure to put you on your knees. If your max downtime is 4 minutes per month, you don't try to run your shop so that the average time is 3:55 min. You play it safe for a couple of years and try to make it 3:15 min. When you build up a 15 you may get bolder and strive for a 3:30 or 3:40 average, but never more than 3:45.

This way, the big 1hr event wipes your surplus... but you can play things conservative for the next 3 months and then go back to operating as you have always done.
I'm having a hard time seeing the value add on the AirPods that justifies paying ~5x the cost of stock Bluetooth earphones.

Siri integration and easier charging is definitely really cool, but not worth paying $120 over regular Bluetooth headphones that will probably be copy cat'ing that functionality in t minus 3, 2, 1...
Floppy drives were still going strong when Apple killed them, as were CDs. Apple briefly made a candy iMac that had neither a floppy drive nor a CD drive nor any other kind of removable drive...I always wondered what you were supposed to do if you had hard drive problems...Target Disk Mode, I guess, if you had another Mac.

Apple wants to make a thinner phone and eliminate wires. If you want to use different headphones than the ones that come with...well, do so. Are AirPods the most advanced headphones ever to come with a music device? They're usually pretty bad.
So I am going to try to answer your question. I think it's a perfectly reasonable thing to bring up, in a "Hi I understand that the other office allows dog owners to bring their pets in. I'm really uncomfortable around dogs, you might say I have a phobia. Could we discuss whether to continue that policy, or if that decision has already been made, would it be reasonable to ask that the dogs be kept to a specific part of the office?
I'd be all over the S7, but I don't like the bloatware and they have really slow Android updates don't they?
the active line from Samsung is like the Sport line on every Japanese car maker: shitty.
Yes, blacks are fundamentally different from whites in terms of the available data to train algorithms on:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/nyregion/hudson-city-bank-...

> The government’s analysis of the bank’s lending data shows that Hudson’s competitors generated nearly three times as many home loan applications from predominantly black and Hispanic communities as Hudson did in a region that includes New York City, Westchester County and North Jersey, and more than 10 times as many home loan applications from black and Hispanic communities in the market that includes Camden, N.J.

That's of course, just recent history. Redlining that occurred in the 1960s on would be enough to adversely affect the housing history data of minority groups even today. Treating everyone equal in the eyes of the algorithm is certainly an easy route to go but as the non-algorithm expert MLK Jr. pointed out:

> Whenever the issue of compensatory treatment for the Negro is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree; but he should ask nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but it is not realistic.
That's weird, my work phone is a Samsung S7 Edge and my personal phone is an iPhone 6S. The photos on the iPhone look so much better.
The photos on the S7 look like they have been edited with a filter, like on Instagram. The colors don't look like the colors I see when I'm looking at the thing I try to capture. The iPhone does a better job at that.
They don't work in scotland. Far too windy, when it is raining in the west of scotland it is inevitably also blowing a gale.
Thats ok, they made it so THIN
Well there won't be an analog jack on the iPhone 7, so that's not a solution.

A little dogbone shaped white silicone thing would look a lot nicer than duct tape.

I think you already realize both of those things.
Are the AirPods Bluetooth? Seems to me that wasn't mentioned once in the presentation.
Keep in mind some theatres threaten an up to $1,000,000 fine for bringing outside food into the theatre. Silly, but I guess they feel it undermines their services?
The current 4-pole headphone jack used in mobile phones is hardly a standard. At least both iOS and Android use their own flavour when doing anything more complex than play/pause.
iOS 10 notifications are a royal pain in the ass compared to those prior. Particularly from the standpoint of dismissing with minimal interaction. You must be more intentional now to get rid of them.
You've obviously never drank Phoenix tap water.
Or you have better things to do than worrying about charging 2/3 devices when you used to only have to charge 1.

I wistfully remember the days when I could go away for the weekend and not have to take a charger for either my ipod or phone...
Looking at what's already been around for >10 years:

vim, emacs, linux, windows, mac os x, nethack (plus a whole stack of programming languages like C).
Exactly the same: 18 hrs on both.

source (scroll to the bottom): http://www.apple.com/watch/compare/
Yeah - living in New York and taking the subway means I'm never buying these things, because if one falls out of my ear at any point during my commute I'll probably never find it again.
Ask HN: New MacBook?
Its page was labeled as 'New' http://www.apple.com/macbook/
I'm seriously not comfortable with getting audio through a digital port that has an authentication chip built in. That's HDCP and DRM for music waiting to burst into life.

"Unauthorized playback."
Even I feel that by not doing custom designs they will be consumed by lower priced competition like Mediatek. This piece of info was by someone who claimed works/worked at Qualcomm so I didn't dismiss it initially. We will probably know about it by end of the year.
Tap water is crap. It tastes bad, it has chlorine in it, and sometimes the treatment plant screws up and it becomes contaminated. Anyone in Flint, MI will tell you that advocating tap water is a terrible idea.

Reverse-osmosis treated water is almost dirt cheap. I get mine from the local Walmart, in heavy-duty refillable 3 or 5-gallon jugs. It costs me $0.37 per gallon to refill one of my jugs. At that price, there's no reason to suffer with tap water, for either drinking or cooking. I recommend the 3-gallon jugs though; it's easier to carry them and to pour them into smaller 1-gallon jugs or water bottles at home.
>> the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move

> Were any of them? MacBook Air released in 2008. DVD media sales rose YOY 2005 => 2009. Flash video did not decrease in popularity pre-iPhone, it decreased because of the iPhone.

And yet most people still need to buy external DVD/Blu-Ray drives. It's been 7 years, and not having DVD drives built into Mac hardware is still incredibly inconvenient.

>> The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been

> "DVDs are as popular today as they have ever been" - someone in 2008

I'm sure someone said that, but I think most people were already moving on to Blu-Ray.
They're too close together for that. Your eyes are about 6cm (~2.4in) apart, those lenses look like they're 1cm apart. You need enough distance between them to capture stereoscopic images.
Rumors say TSMC is manufacturing most/all of the A10s on their 16nm process [1].

[1]: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/07/11/apple-chip-builder...
My kids' middle school just moved to iPads from Chromebooks, which I thought was weird. (The elementary school had some iPads, so my kids felt like they were moving up to adult-ish laptops when they moved to middle school.)

The iPads had iWorks pre-installed, so I imagine they'll be using this feature.
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I didn't watch the keynote, but the apple.com page labeled the MacBook as new. http://www.apple.com/macbook/
We already have Android and iPhone headphones with the jack. The 4-pole connector uses a different standard for the control signals for both.

You can't do anything beyond play/pause or answer calls on iOS with Samsung headphones or vice versa.
Placing folks around the globe doesn't really help with the weekend or holiday situation.
The water resistant argument is weak at best. I've had water resistant android phones for years without extra bulk. The problem is solved, all Apple had to do is look.

With that said, I don't actually disagree with taking the headphone jack out. I do think there needs to be a more universal replacement than what they are suggesting though.
I don't think this statement makes sense.
If the link rate of the mesh is ~4 Gbps maybe it could come close to providing 1 Gbps per customer.
The Register tries to attend the iPhone 7 launch party
Curious, why is backwards compatibility more important to you for this project?
Ask HN: Freelance or Full-time?
I'm full-time Web Developer at NYC digital agency. Currently I'm making $55K, but tired of the agency environment. Is it worth to become freelancer?
I don't understand your point.

Wouldn't the dongle just be permanently attached to your headphones ?
How Microsoft is trying to recruit–and build space for–people with autism
I do and the battery only last an hour. We need bigger batteries. CPU speed is never the issue.
I disagree because to the layman that can easily listen to anything on a 25$ pair of earphones that's a lot. And here we are talking about at least 80% of the population.
Get a lumbar roll. Your upper back shouldn't be in contact with anything.
Has this actually been verified that they are recording without people's knowledge or consent and sending that data home vs just listening locally for a specific wake up word?

Don't get me wrong... I think it is horrid and the trend is worrisome, but I haven't seen conclusive proof this is happening yet.
I was limiting my comparison to wired audio interconnects.

It may be that from many people's point of view, the user experience is comparable and/or better. But it's accomplished using a fundamentally different mechanism. I wanted better apples; even if some oranges are tasty too.
Certainly not waterproofing, given that waterproof Android phones have had headphone jacks for a few years now.
Vector is a client for the Matrix communications platform (perhaps calling it a communications platform is wrong, it's more general than that).

Matrix itself is just a spec / API for sending and receiving messages. Tensor and Quaternion are two other clients that work with a given Matrix home-server. AFAIK all of these clients can utilize Matrix APIs to some degree, however I'm unsure about video conferencing as I only really use Vector. That said though, other clients' capabilities don't really depend on Vector at all, unless they're using https://vector.im as an identity server.
To all: it's Lightning [R], not lightening. Go ahead. Call me a nitpicker.
It definitely differentiates them - into a company that now makes a device that I won't be buying.
> Is realtime collaboration offered in any competing desktop apps?

Office 2016 does have realtime collaboration in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, in both the desktop and online apps.
> as close to a universal solution as is possible

As long as you only use Apple hardware, of course.
Plus the battery helps excess water evaporate :-)
Have you tried these headphones [1]? They never fell off during my usage so far

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Motorola-SF600-Wireless-Sports-Headph...
IMO they were always a huge pain for that, compared with Android.
No way. The largest threats to your privacy by several orders of magnitude over the stuff we complain about:

- Electric, gas, sewer, water, trash utilities that you basically can't live without.

- Thinking of going rustic? Better not own the land in your own name. Most places, parcels are easy to find online.

- Property management companies

- Sites that facilitate rental applications

- Your 100+ year old bank

- Credit card and auto lenders

- Employers and job application websites

- Cell phone networks

- AT&T, Comcast, and all but a handful of indie ISPs

- Insurance companies

- Retail stores and gas stations with your loyalty programs

- People who regularly enter your property like building maintenance, trash collectors (often spies for the municipal building inspector), etc.

- Cops and neighbors who can observe your daily routine

- Vital records offices that know who your families are

Hell, just yesterday Verizon gave my mom a $20/mo discount to plug something into her OBD II port. WTF else can that be for?

Facebook and Google are the kindest to your privacy. Your data is a closely guarded asset, protected by competent engineers, used to tailor your experience and show ads. All these other entities, many of which you basically have to do business with to lead a contemporary life even without social media and smartphones, know who you are, where you live, what you drive, who you care about, how much money and credit you have and how you use it, and they do not even try to keep these data in house. When the government or a PI is looking for someone, that's where they look first - to data bought, volunteered, interviewed, and stolen from every kind of company except modern tech, often through well defined and documented interfaces like LexisNexis and the credit bureaus.

Luddite doesn't do much. You have to sublet informally (usually illegal), get paid in cash (employers don't like to do this unless they are illegal businesses) under a false name (fraud), never use banking or credit, not own, rent, register, or insure any cars, buy single ride subway tickets (more expensive), and have a forgettable face (genetics?) etc. People can't even manage this when their lives depend on it. Fugitives are almost always caught these days - this is how. It's nearly impossible to avoid leaking your biographical data and physical location.

Modern tech might give more insight into your mind, I suppose, but deeper privacy than that is very hard - actors in a capitalist system are starved for information about their counterparties and work hard to get it.
Even if the headphone jack were dying out (which IMO is not the case, but anyway), one has to admit that replacing it by a proprietary system like Lightning is a bad idea. Now, I get their goal is pushing toward the use of wireless, but they'll have to explain themselves as to how they're planning on pulling that off when the only official wireless alternative they offer is a $159 pair of earphones as opposed to their wired alternative which is literally more than 4x cheaper.
Check out the high prices people are paying on eBay for iPhones and iPads with broken screens, or dead batteries, or which are locked (probably because they are stolen).
"-- Lightning pre-dates USB type-C, which fulfill the same usability goal"

Lightning only operates at USB 2 speeds. Well, except for the large iPad Pro.

Oh, and it requires an authentication chip so has to be approved by Apple (not overly 'usable', but definitely proprietary).
$180. Wow. That is the price range of just the earphones from Apple.
Right, there is never time to do it right and lots of time to do it over.

I do not think that your reading of history of the field is anywhere close to reality. I do suggest that you read as carefully my comments as I write them: I did not say practitioners ought to be theoreticians, I said they should no engage in a field founded on logic without ANY intro to logic. Big difference.

In fact, the initial mapping to implementation--direct image SQL implementations--was not in the relational spirit at all and is in large part responsible to logical-physical confusion and confusion of tables with relations. And to call those initial implementations efficient in the technology of the day is from another planet. IBM would not budge implementing the RDM until Oracle forced it.
It just so happened that even the limited relational fidelity of SQL proved superior to the rigidity, complexity and lack of soundness of hierarchic and network technologies. Have you ever seen IMS or Codasyl code?

Listen, have done nothing but exactly making the practical implications of the theory for the last 40 years. I suggest you read my stuff and tell me exactly what is wrong with it.
The problem is lack of fundamental education which has been replaced by tool training. Practitioners are not even aware that there is something beyond experience with tools that they need to know.

So pls.
We've had bluetooth audio in cars for many many years now. The most compelling argument for needing an aux cable is if you're renting a car (since rentals usually skip most of the options, such as bluetooth audio). And with the headphone jack being removed, it's only a matter of time before some 3rd party comes out with an adaptor cable that includes a charge port so you can do both at the same time.

> there is zero benefit to consumers

Completely untrue. Just because you don't care about the various benefits doesn't mean there is zero benefit. If there was zero benefit, Apple wouldn't do it. More than any other company I know, Apple cares deeply about user experience, and they're dropping the headphone jack because they think it's holding back the product.

The most obvious benefit I can think of is dropping the headphone jack let them put a second speaker in where the jack was, which is probably what let them get 2x louder speakers.
bet they bring back the jack in iphone 8
Yeah, but I still want the magnetic charger break-away. That saves my laptop at least once every 6 months.
This is great. Occasionally I jump into helping with some PRs (for example https://github.com/adobe/brackets/pull/12251) and before the choices have been either making the changes and asking for the contributor to pull the changes in from some other branch, posting some `.diff`s or just pulling the changes in and pushing them in yourself. This will make all that much simple and best of all more collaborative.
Ugh. Given the nature of the site that is particularly galling. But it's done, I don't think there is any way to reverse this.
Kind of like a MacCozy for the magsafe v1/v2 adapter? I can tell you that's a very solid product.
and not having a dvd drive built in is incredibly convenient for the form factor and durability of the machine
Well that's good to know, thanks!
Bulging camera -> broken glass. For two years I've been using a Galaxy S5 with bulging camera and twice I have broken the camera glass needing replacing, it's the first thing to hit the surface when i rest the phone on a table and takes a lot of stress. Of course I could be more careful. It has also scratched and so there's more lens flare, but I'm tired of replacing it. My wife's iPhone with flush camera is much less of a problem.
> 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.

In Romania we have elite high-schools where admissions is based on exams (mostly math). This means that the pupils a class will be of somewhat similar intelligence, and makes things easier for teachers. The best pupils are encouraged to participate in olympiads, and the worst usually transfer to lower-rated institutions. I think this system works quite well (apart from the fact that the very lowly rated high-schools are completely useless).
Standardized, yes. But it was not at all clear that it would become a dominant force. Far from all standards do.

Many think it was the iMac that made it into the success it has become.
iPhone 7 and 7 Plus to be available in India from 7th October starting ₹60,000
I wonder if the 2 cameras can be used as a stereo camera for augmented reality.
Everyone suggesting that we ought to legislate that machines must be illogical/suboptimal is missing the point.

If machine learning algorithms are unfairly discriminating against some group, then they are making sub-optimal decisions and costing their users money. This is a self-righting problem.

However, a good machine learning algorithm may uncover statistical relationships that people don't like; for example, perhaps some nationalities have higher loan repayment rates. In these cases, the algorithm is not at odds with reality; the angsty humans are. If some people want to force machines to be irrational, they should at least be honest about their motivations and stop pretending it has a thing to do with "fairness".
Not if you have several hundred dollar headphones – then you’d more likely glue the adapter to the phone.

Or just break open the phone and solder a fucking 3.5mm jack into it.
... vs the idea that "inflation" is mentioned as the way to get a mostly, but not quite, smooth universe which (as an article of faith???) MUST have started as a geometric point.

How would you rule out "one day there was a blob"? (which is really a crummy hypothesis, but as something to throw out vs inflation -- "for a while, relativity didn't apply, but then it did, because space itself decided to grow, until it didn't, so there!")
Smarter than average, for sure. But people tend to over estimate the intelligence of the average PhD.
Maybe it's just genetics, but the thing about this video that I've never been able to get out of my head is how a smile is etched into Knuth's face. Even happy elderly folks usually have heavy, distinctive frown wrinkles, and you almost never see cheek wrinkles like these, let alone so pronounced. Maybe the way Knuth aged only indicates that he doesn't grimace when concentrating as most of us do, but I like to think a lifetime of smiling is responsible for the appearance. Whenever I get into the rut of thinking that life is a steady decline into loneliness and dissatisfaction, memories of this video remind me to be positive and playful.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I think that the audio jack is one of the few cases where an analog port is good because if the signal in not already analog it must be converted to analog via a DAC. If the DAC isn't in the phone, it has to be in the headphones. So, not only do you need to worry about the quality of the headphones, you have to worry about the quality of the DAC, and the DAC needs power. Seems like a few good reasons to not ditch the audio jack for now, especially if you care about audio quality. Also, those that care about audio quality probably have several expensive sets of headphones that are now incompatible with new Apple phones.