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I just don't get the supports of this. I have a pair of bluetooth headphone and of course normal corded. Bluetooth sucks! It's buggy as hell. You have to constantly get it to re-sync with your device. Interference constantly makes the signal get crappy.

Ever been on a call with your fancy blue tooth headset while someone turned on a microwave near by? I have, that shit stops working!

I'm all for moving forward with an all digital solution, but blue tooth just doesn't cut it 100% of the time.
Most of the Fortune 500 still use IBM mainframes, which are still the children of the S/360 launched in 1964.

The interesting questions include: how long does it take to move off them; how reliable is the move; and what happens to your quarterly results doing a multi-year transition?

Another one is: How long is the current CEO going to stick around to manage the process?
> we'll soon have a breakout device

USB-C indeed. Apple chose not to use it though
Where did you hear that?
It seems there have been so many grenade attacks in Sweden that it has its own Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Swe...
Come on, the stickers alone are worth an OS upgrade! /s
> Actually no. The same extension is OK in the Safari store by using "Cleaner - For Facebook". This is OK according to the law.

The fact that Safari allows it is not some broad-sweeping legal pronouncement. Nor is it proof that they even truly evaluated it more than superficially. It's not even validation that the extension is compliant via Apple's terms. It just means your extension got back in.

Apple could get a takedown notice tomorrow and do the exact same thing. This is clearly a risk of using the Facebook trademark, even if you're doing it in a "fair use" way.

I'm not trying to be rude here, so please don't read it this way. But bluntly, invoking Facebook's name in your extension is kicking the hornet's nest. If Facebook doesn't like it, they will send takedown notices and Apple and Google will assuredly respond to those by suspending extensions. Your beef is still ultimately with Facebook, not Google.
I feel like I can't buy this unless Apple pays its EU-enforced Irish tax bill. We give them money but the vast majority of it never goes back into the economy.

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Wouldn't it be enough to set up a postal box office in the USA to create a US 'presence' for many saas companies based in Europe? Provided, of course, that you are available during US office hours for email and phone support?
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Up until today there's been minimal demand for Lightning headphones. Once the iPhone 7 is released I'd expect cheap Lightning headphones to be pretty common, just like you can find both Lightning and Micro-USB charging cables near the cash register at pharmacies today.
I do this all day, every day. Long skype conference calls tend to drain the battery pretty fast.
my pockets are going to be very full with all these things I need to buy/carry around for my iPhone
The difference between camera and headphones is that the latter consume useful space inside and extra lenses for camera do not. Probably it also has to do something with new waterproof feature (different design of case, more holes to secure etc).
Probably because it's water resistant not water proof. You can't put it 50m under water for a few days and then complain it's damaged. I guess if they are saying it's water resistant they have tested pretty extensively and can guarantee that under the conditions they say it will not get damaged. Not great that the customer has to place their trust in the company regarding that though.
Pebble Time Round exists, and has the exact same problem. Such a huge design fork it's really like writing and supporting two different apps. One with a 90% market share (square screen) and one with 10% market share (round) and which requires so much more work and thought to utilize it effectively.
But is the UI just a function of the store? (I guess "store" in this context means the model data that is persisted on the server -- sorry if I'm getting the terminology wrong.)

For example, something like selection typically isn't part of the model. (Users don't expect to undo a selection in an editor.) That means components will need to manage that kind of transient state internally, and the whole "UI is just a function" paradigm kind of breaks down.
My own setup for a while now, when playing music for long periods, has been to connect the phone to charge using the lightning cable, and then connect to a (wireless) Bluetooth speaker which itself is also plugged in and charging using its own USB cable connected to a USB charger. It has much the same effect as having a "charging dock", but just requires two powered USB ports rather than a custom piece of equipment.
This. Have a lightning connector cable that Ys up to both of these and charges them so that you can keep on listening.

Edit: So at the top, these could basically fit into like a sleeve. Could also have an attachment that hooked over the ear or into it like some headphones do. That way they're less likely to fall out.

Man, I wish I knew someone with some manufacturing connections to get this going.
Does it mean you're just renting the phone?
U would be amazed at what happens at mega companies. Blown Away.

Funny story: the other talking to the CEO of a mega corporation. They fired a senior person here, #1 employee. Told him about it, he did even know it happened. And she reported to him. He thought she was on vacation.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
It's not unusual for me to fall asleep most of a long haul flight. In ear monitors that do a lot of noise cancelation/isolation really are a help in dealing with the noise of an airplane. So, for me, not needing to charge is pretty key.

That said, apple ear buds and my ears never really did get along.

Sometimes, I will use over ear
> Is a path of learning more and more about less and less

...until you know absolutely everything about absolutely nothing.
> you probably have a computer. Why not listen on that?

Is this supposed to convince me to buy the device?
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So they just deprecated hundreds of perfectly viable audio accessories which have better sound quality than their proprietary premium product just so you are dependent on yet another Apple product? Maximum vendor lock-in. And please don't say "everyone can make a Bluetooth speaker". They will probably come up with some artificial license which makes it "iPhone certified" so that even there they can squeeze some cold cash.

It really bothers me how Apple is so obsessed with making ridiculous amounts of money and the tricks they pull to make it work. And somehow, it works!
Yeah, just hold it different.
Same here, this power in invaluable to me while I was working as a software tester previously.
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This is huge for cars. Power and Podcasts via a single Plug.
It doesn't matter what kind of support you have for Cloud if Google's first reaction is to turn off all services and there isn't a way to get in touch with support outside of social media. Adwords may have some support, but as we've clearly seen here on HN, Cloud does not and out of all the offerings Google has, that one should have the most support. The only people I can see using Cloud at this point are people who are ignorant that Google's response to problems will be an immediate shutdown and people who are not ignorant of such and therefore extremely risky or stupid. Either way, it's not a professional service nor is it production ready. I'm thankful everyday now that I did not migrate to such an infantile and unsupported system. In light of this, everything else about the service including pricing and features is irrelevant. In fact, the whole service is irrelevant and childish. A toy at best.
As an example of one such name becoming common, it is hard to find reliable instances of the feminine first name "Madison" before 1984: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088161/
Immigrants don't commit more crimes. Why does the myth persist?
I'm also really excited about this. A lot of people have been distracted by a single issue and are missing some really nice features of this phone.

Beyond the secure enclave, if the haptic home button is anything like the new trackpads, it'll be an amazing feature. One less moving part to break. And the cameras...wow. Finally decent depth of field on the camera that's always in my pocket.
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I'm continually underwhelmed with the reliability of the bluetooth in my car and others I've used recently. Annoying pairing process, random disconnects, arbitrary limits on the number of paired devices...I usually just use an aux cable.
> If you are talking about their new wireless headphones, It will probably have some delay but probably not even close to bluetooth. They could just modulate that same bytestream to some ghz radio frequency without adding anything remotely as over engineered and cumbersome as a bluetooth stack. I'm pretty sure those airpods are not bluetooth compatible.

What about encryption?

Not to mention that Bluetooth doesn't use PCM because of battery life constraints (more radio traffic == more energy used), I doubt that Apple's protocol is uncompressed.
Not justifying the removal of the port, but Apple's Dock [0] has its own standard audio-out port, and I'm sure others out there do as well.

[0] http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MGRM2AM/A/iphone-lightning...
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Maybe, but it wasn't at all to the same degree. Floppies were verging on uselessness in 1998. Capacities hadn't increased in a decade, while code and data sizes were growing exponentially. Floppies could barely fit anything useful anymore. A wide variety of replacements were available, with Zip, Jazz, Bernoulli, CD-RW, and others all competing. There was no standardization, so the replacements kind of sucked. Removable data storage was just a complete mess at the time, so eliminating the most standardized but vastly least capable option wasn't that big of a deal.

With audio connectors, it's not like that at all. For wired connections, there's one universal standard that works great. There's no analogous situation to being unable to fit your massive bloated Word documents onto a 1.44MB floppy disk. Moving past the floppy disk solved a bunch of serious problems, while moving past the headphone jack isn't solving any problems.
In addition to the Galaxy being water resistant with a standard audio jack, the watch has a speaker that expels water automatically from the air cavity. That's a brilliant piece of engineering, so one can't help but wonder if the headphone jack preventing water resistance is truly an engineering problem or simply a (ridiculous) business decision.

Personally, I'm going to hold on to the 6s for as long as it's usable and then consider my options.

The funny thing is, they made a huge deal about catering to runners in the watch presentation. In the offseason I run about 20 to 30 miles per week, and I can tell you bluetooth headphones suck for running. They fall out easily as soon as I start sweating. Also, during training season the headphones will run out of juice if I don't remember to plug them in. They also drain the phone's battery - on a 30 minute run that's no problem, but on a 2-hour run that sucks. The best earphones are over the head, light-weight ones I can tuck under my cap whcih keeps them in place.

Oh well, maybe on the 8 they have a change of heart. And if they don't... there's always OpenMoko
I don't know. It seems reasonable to imagine the drainpipe jeans crowd has a pretty solid overlap with Apple's customer base.
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Right at the top: "Optical sensors and motion accelerometers work with the W1 chip to automatically control the audio and engage the microphone, giving you the ability to use one or both AirPods. "
And how much is another one when I inevitably lose or break it?
Yeah, that would be the case, if it only were not for the dozens of just touchscreen phones before the iPhone came out.
IMO, this could be the beginning of the decline of Apple (since smartphones make majority of apples profit)
In some ways I find it more attractive than the Apple Watch
I'm little confused here, I thought the most value from YC is meeting with partners. I would probably consider applying for next batch, and get their feedback on whether they fund without the need to move
Lightning isn't the future, but some sort of wireless is.

Lightning is just a stop-gap.
Lightening stick coming very soon.
I dont see them mention it. The iPhone 6s tech spec has "Retina HD display with 3D Touch" mentioned.
Do you play a lot of games on your phone?
I agree with you. As a teenager, I seemed to have an intuitive ability to understand concepts that others struggled with. I tend to grok concepts very quickly and once I do, I don't forget them.

I would sit in class and play games (which I'd programmed) on my TI-83, or read books. I would drift my attention to the teacher's lecture occasionally, just enough to convince myself I understood what was being taught, then back to my game.

I never took notes, nor did I study for tests, even through my undergrad in computer science. I got an A+ in multivariable calculus just by listening to the prof talk, and piecing together my comprehension on the fly.

As far as focus goes, often my focus is laser guided but I'm not in control of the laser. When something catches my interest, it becomes all I can think about for weeks. I'll obsess over it and learn everything I can about it, until my interest wanes.

I'm left with really deep knowledge of really obscure topics, and shallow-to-nonexistent knowledge of many common topics, which makes me a surprising conversation partner.
Audio DACs have not been the limiting factor in the analog signal chain for a long time.
The article doesn't answer the question stated in the title.
And a lawyer has sued the Danish government and tax authorities for doing so: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&js=y&prev...
Mine fray constantly. I've never owned an apple device that HASN'T had terrible cords. I googled about why their cords are so crappy and found a thread on reddit with tons of people complaining. Apparently it's because the designers at apple thing cord reinforcement is not aesthetically pleasing. Sucks, I love their products, just wish their cords lasted longer.

https://www.thrillist.com/tech/nation/why-apple-hasnt-fixed-...
Don't they make the bulk of their revenue from search engine partnerships? Doubt that would go over well.
What is fairness but political accountability?

There is an old joke about how people use statistics like a drunk uses a lamp post: for support and not for illumination. Given this, we can expect people to use AI like everything else in statistics, to support the agenda of whoever is operating it while defraying negative personal accountability for the results, because artificial intelligence. It's just an obfuscated and sophisticated version of, "Computer says no."

The alternative is the near future headline, "AI confirms racists, sexists, on to something."
The space argument would have been a lot more compelling if they hadn't added stereo speakers. I feel like I might have grudgingly accepted it, but with that addition it just feels like they're screwing with me.
Lock-in. When you buy any apple accessory it is not usable on anything else adding more friction for people considering a switch.
Is there an opposite version of that, like one I could attach to my headphones and play through an iPhone?

EDIT: found it - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HQ0UVTG?psc=1
Thanks.

There are different definitions of intelligence. One I like (though I don't quite find it comprehensive) is David Krakauer (of Santa Fe Institute), "Intelligence is Search". That is: it's a search across an n-dimensional space for a least-cost function.

There's the question of "function for what?", and I'm thinking here something which allows for useful prediction or outmaneuvering an adversary (as with chess).

This gives a set of related or subroutine functions which are required, including many on your list: information acquisitionprocessing, and output. An interesting concept I ran across in the past year or so is that of the medieval curriculum, comprised of the trivium and the quadrivium. The first is further broken down into grammar, logic, and rhetoric, or if you prefer, input (and framing), processing, and output. This tickles my brain.

Another element I'm familiar with is that there comes a point in any skill at which it's somewhat less the things you get right as what you avoid getting wrong that matters. A champion athlete has strength or stamina, but also optimised physiology (Michael Phelps's long arms and torso, short legs, and huge feet, for example, are swimming gold, QED), and not screwing anything up in the event. Nailing starts, turns, finishes, and technique, not getting in your own way.

Further pondering intelligence also brings into the fold what knowledge, wisdom, correctness, and quality are. Interesting questions.
Of course, this theory of discrimination is only applicable when minorities are fundamentally different from majorities. I.e., if the same ruleset is accurate for both whites and blacks (i.e., "I don't care about race, if he puts 20% down he's good"), this argument doesn't work at all - you can train your model on everyone and it'll work just fine.

However, if blacks and whites need to be treated fundamentally differently in order to make accurate loan decisions, then this argument applies. I.e., perhaps whites need a 20% downpayment for a loan to be financially a good risk but blacks need 40% (or vice versa).

I wonder how many people calling algorithms racist will endorse this conclusion. It sounds kind of...racist.

(Note that I don't use "racist" a synonym for "factually incorrect" or "we should not consider this idea", but merely "this sounds like the kind of thing a white nationalist might say, or Trump would be criticized for if he said".)
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For me the awesome / scary / new best practise was the Tim Cook must have asked "how many people use headphones, whilst charging" and they could tell him, to the user, to the minute, to the location.

Yeah, we can lose 4% of Abba lovers. Go for it
This is a terrible solution though. To have to buy something new to retain a function that was previously available is just backward.
galaxy s7/note7 are both waterproof with 3.5mm jacks
New pebbles (time) tend to run 6-7 days pretty easy, and I think pebble time steel shoots for 10-day battery life, many people report easy 7 days. https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/3j46zs/whats_your_p... ... I hate to say wait for the Pebble Time 2 (coming end of year) but they'll be adding heart-rate monitor and keeping ~10 day battery life supposedly.
Syncplicity basically lets companies have a Dropbox-like product that's run on EMC hardware inside of a company's data center. There's a clear migration path to a 100% hosted solution when a company is ready to let go.

You'd be surprised how many companies consider it in their best interest to run their own servers.
I am not sure if I agree with the floppy being abandoned at the right time. This was at a time where the cloud would be emailing something to yourself, no USB drives, and CD writers that were expensive, and burnt a coaster half the time.

Also back then Apple had a minuscule market share, so they did not really kill it. It just made most people have to buy an external floppy drive. Yes the floppy did have to go, but USB sticks needed to come first, and they were not there yet. There really wasn't any other alternative for say saving your work at school and going home.
I don't know. It looks like a lot of boilerplate just to tag a tiny bit of metadata onto a function pointer...

I guess I'll need to do some more reading on how this works in larger applications with more complex model structures. Thanks for the links!
The video series "The Mechanical Universe" has a very similar and simple explanation.
Not all of us can access streaming services from work or install iTunes. I can technically access streaming services, but seems the corporate proxy server makes it impossible to use them effectively.
This is not correct, the 32GB capacity is available for the matte black iPhone 7 - it's gone for the jet black one.
Hey, credit where it's due. Apple tends to advertise battery life quite well, with testers often getting over what Apple advertises.

But the answer is no - they advertise 5 hours.
I actually completely agree with this, it has been a pain in the ass from my experience as well. The after market stereos are almost always better though.
I imagine it depends where the computer is used - users that mostly use it on a desk where they plug / unplug it but don't move it around a lot while plugged in probably don't have problems. The cords always seem to fail if they are used a lot on a couch / in bed etc, and since the portion of the cord that fails is not easily replaceable there's not much choice but to buy a new one for nearly $100.

A long time ago, before the MagSafe cables, name brand third-party Mac laptop chargers were available that you could use however you want without fraying. I had one from Macallay. The reason why it never had any issues when using it the same way Apple chargers failed was obvious: the cable where it connected to the computer was a lot thicker.

As far as I know, there's no legal third party MagSafe cables, and the knock off ones copy Apple's design anyway and have no advantages. I've learned to just use it on a desk most of the time when plugged in, since it's a nuisance to deal with failing power cables. But for me, that's a pretty big trade off in order to gain a more aesthetically pleasing cord thickness.

I suppose it's debatable what sort of usage counts as 'abuse' or not, but you can be assured that the Apple chargers will fail in the exact same circumstances that other chargers will not. It's probably my single biggest issue with their hardware, especially since they prevent any alternatives from being available.
Well, here I was typing up a sarcastic reply about how Apple is congenitally incapable of selling anything with a price tag under $20, but they already have the thing on their store, and it's $9:

http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMX62AM/A/lightning-to-35-...

That certainly does help alleviate the pain.
Do you have one? What's your experience with it?

I got a regular Dell XPS 15 (but the keyboard and everything else I think is the same) and while the laptop looks great I was expecting better quality for this price range.

My review was on Hacker News recently
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According to this: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac, they are waayyyy behind schedule
As a parent and an owner of an Apple TV rendered useless by them losing the remote, I'll pass.
Show me an Android phone that will provide the hassle-free experience Apple promises with those AirPods. That's the most innovative part of this event for me.
Honestly, I think you just did a great job of describing FitBit vs Apple.
Is it a little presumptuous for you to decide, individually and on humanity's behalf, that widespread death and destruction is the best thing for everyone?
> Still mind-boggled that I get to wear something so awesome on my wrist.

I have a totally different feeling. When I run or swim, it's one of the rare time where I can disconnect from technology. I spend already too much time in front of a screen at home and work.

I agree that it can be somewhat useful (but far from necessary) to keep records but for me it's too much of a disturbance. Not worth it.
You can still do it, you just have to tweak your calibration parameters to accept a different focal length for the second camera. It's a huge pain but doable.