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Steve's Apple was just like Tim's Apple: all about incremental improvement.

Youngsters might not remember, but I've followed those keynotes and introductions since 2002 or so.

It took 4 years for the iPod to get a color screen -- and 8 years to get a video camera. Several years to get Wifi. The original iPhone wasn't 3G -- that was the next model. Those years we waited year over year for Jobs to announce some extremely incremental updates. And people cheered for them -- they were actually exciting, all the press was speculating and gushing, and it was e.g. just a few additional features on the iPod, like the touch wheel as opposed to the old click wheel.

New announcements like the iPhone and the iPad were rare under Jobs too. And those products were low hanging fruit for Apple themselves -- a mobile phone and a table. Quite basic stuff -- not some whole new product category like flying cars and whatever people expect to see.

Apple is not in the business of creating experimental stuff to dazzle geeks. It's in the business in incrementally improving mass market products.

Besides, what competitor exactly did introduce those mythical "Jobs-worthy" products that people ask from Apple to deliver? Google Glasses? Microsoft's laptop/tablet combo that failed to gain much traction and is returned like crazy? https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/14/16142490/microsoft-surfac...

What Apple did better, and affected the industry, was not innovation in the sense of some new BS product category that didn't exist ever, it was delivery. Better thought out, more polished, and with lots of innovation in the details. The kind of innovation that the iPhone models get incrementally but few can understand, but then you use a model from 2-3 years ago and it feels ancient after you've used the last one.

For such introductions of new products, the Apple Watch has been one such under Tim's, err, watch, and it does great in the market (in fact it's almost the only smartwatch people can actually see in the wild -- it outsold Samsung Galaxy watches so much in units it's not even funny).
And we are back to Thompson, basically. :)
That's really cool. I would love to know/see how many YC companies are going back to their country of origin versus how many are actually settle in the US. Thanks for the effort.
That is some extraordinary marketing.

I just want it. But i know i have absolutely no need for it.
Wait, they're just using Qi without any extra fluff? Did they at least up the power transfer rates so I don't have to wait forever in comparison to wired charging?
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I did!

I'd actually switched over to Android after the iPhone 4S, to an Xperia Z3 compact from fall 2014. That was competing against the iPhone 6 when Apple had apparently abandoned what I consider to be comfortably sized phones.

With the iPhone SE I was happy to come back.
>The curious thing is that I wasn’t so upset about what happened. Almost not upset at all. I set aside an emergency fund for such cases, so financially it wasn’t really a problem

I think the two go hand in hand. You can't practice it if you're not prepared somehow for that eventuality. Having 2 child seats stolen while living paycheck to paycheck can be pretty devastating.
Quite the opposite. The system of expecting resolver order to be respected (the glibc behavior) is the one that is likely cause DNS leaks while using a VPN: if your VPN connection or its DNS server is intermittently flaky, glibc will gladly go try your next, public resolver with the internal domain name.

Meanwhile, systemd has actual functionality for scoping your VPN domain names to your VPN's DNS server only: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.net...
I agree, when they first demoed it I was pretty shocked. For games, I can kind of understand, they can likely work around it...but for video? No videos are recorded with the thought of the left side of the screen being cut off.
You don't even need physical access. Just stick it outside in a planter.
HDR imaging and HDR video are different techniques to produce more dynamic range. HDR imaging is compositing multiple images and using tone mapping to fit more dynamic range into regular image. If have a HDR display that can show the extra dynamic range, then don't need to do the tone mapping which tends to be the fake looking part.

HDR video is usually recorded with the higher range. Are there videos where high dynamic range is compressed into standard dynamic range? Or where HDR is synthesized from regular video?
Having recovered from surgery both with- and without-hydrocodone, it's not hard to understand why. It works really really well as a painkiller.

I hope there is a solution that can address addiction and abuse without eliminating the drug itself. A less judgmental approach than spiking it with acetaminophen which just makes abuse do even more damage.

I have similar mixed feelings about prescription stimulants. They work, but a lot of people end up abusing them.
But Autopilot isn't an all or nothing thing. If Tesla could save lives by changing the name, requiring constant hands on the wheel, doing a better job monitoring the person is actually in control, then they are being negligent by failing to do so.

If you invent a cure for cancer, but 1/10th of your pills have rat poison that could easily have filtered out, it doesn't matter that you overall saved lives. You still killed people through negligence.
Are you trying to make a reference to the environment here? iPhone is one of the most environmentally friendly phones you can buy.
That "prison" you speak of, is exactly why people buy into the Apple ecosystem.
I’m in the same boat. I’ve always been rather 'meh' about the watch - the only really useful thing I’ve found in a smart watch was the ability to display notifications on the wrist.

However with the addition of cellular data (and if it works as advertised and has reasonable battery life) it does rather .... exciting.

Shame it doesn’t support roaming :(
Because it's bigger?
A “computer program” is a set of statements or instructions to be used directly
or indirectly in a computer in order to bring about a certain result.
Copyright protection extends to all the copyrightable expression embodied
in the computer program. Copyright protection is not available for ideas, program
logic, algorithms, systems, methods, concepts, or layouts.

https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ61.pdf
It was mentioned in the presentation. It has it's own sim card - something they called an "electronic sim" I think.
Is it Pentile?!
I'm most excited about the built-in GPS and music streaming, which would mean I can track my runs and listen to music without my phone. GPS watches cost $300+ anyway so this isn't a stretch.
I was at Caltech when LIGO was being built. Kip Thorne gave a great lecture in the engineering school about how they went about knowing what to try to engineer in the first place. I'm not an expert on LIGO, but based on the seminars I attended it sounded like there was a lot of science that went into figuring out what the engineering team needed to do.
> If someone told me "I took 5" I'd expect them to be talking about some kind of quantity and wait for them to finish the sentence.

I think you're thrown off because 5 is such a low number. Most highways have higher numbers, so it looks more natural without the "the".

Using Dallas highways as an example, "I took 635 to Preston". Or maybe chain some highways "I took 121 to 75, then to 635, and I got off at Royal".

The only highway in Dallas we use "the" for is the Dallas North Tollway, which most people just call "the Tollway" (NTTA is currently trying to push an acronym, "DNT", but nobody uses it). And I've seen a few people refer to President George Bush Turnpike as "the Bush", which is uncommon enough that I do a double take whenever I hear it (it's usually just "Bush" or "George Bush"... and maybe "190" from people who remember when it was under construction before they decided to turn it into a toll road).
> Q: Can I use my Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) internationally?

> A: Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) does not support international roaming.

From the FAQ section of the Apple Watch page in the Store. I'm wondering why the device has to support roaming, isn't that just a feature of the cellular provider?
If you watched the demo, they explained you have to be looking at the phone and have your eyes open. Forcing someone's eyes to open isn't impossible but would be difficult.
(1) I've turned off all notifications except the ones that absolutely need to come through (SMS, Calls, Calendar Events etc). You need to have a different notification strategy for your Watch vs. your Phone.

(2) You can't look at your Watch for that long comfortably. It's good for glances and that's what I end up doing most - glancing. I think this is far better than getting sucked into your phone. You get the information you need quickly and get out quickly. That's not the case with my phone.
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At least for PHP it still seems to be incredibly slow. This seems slower than some of the other 3rd party Atom addons for autocomplete. Definitely far slower than VSCode and no integrated debugger either.
> When will the US (and the rest of the world) finally learn that locking users up just perpetuates the problem...

I couldn't agree more with you on this point, but the point in this article when a sentenced addict chose jail instead of treatment nearly made my jaw drop. A lot of these people are simply hopeless.

> “You’re not going to change me,” he says.

To your point of state-provided heroin, I hope that more conclusive data comes out about safe injection sites soon. People are antsy about them getting installed in Seattle but I feel like it's simply time to try something.
Is Android support for visually impaired users still as spotty as it used to be?
I run split horizon DNS and have my local DNS server listed before my ISP's in my DHCP server configuration. The order (to me) is important. I want to hit MY dns server always (which does cache), unless it is unavailable, and then I want to hit my ISPs as a fallback only. Is there a suggested way to do this?
It's horrible if you're coming from languages such as Portuguese in which "puche" literally means pull!!

Almost 10 years in the states and I still have to think before every single git commit.
You don't have to buy a coin. You can buy fractions of a coin. I suspect a majority of people do just that.
It might happen but I don't think it'll work. Codes work because they deal with known, predictable, and repeated problems. You can keep improving the fire code with each disastrous fire and fire will not actively try to outsmart you next time.

Security OTOH is anti-inductive because you're dealing with intelligent attackers adjusting their methods. In this environment, security code and certifications will just become another pile of papers for bureaucrats to verify after your data was leaked anyway.

But maybe it will at least force manufacturers to make their products' software updateable.
As long as you keep unlocking your phone while your beard grows, it'll learn your new face.
I really wanted to see this turn the iPhone X into the primary computer for all things - replace the MBP and the iPad line. Dock to screen/keyboard etc... so that everything is just running off of the phone.

That would be a perfect jump off point to AR glasses with the phone as the computing engine in 2020.

It would let Apple re-focus, kill a bunch of product lines and swallow the market with a singular device + robust peripheral market.
the comments in your code are more copyright-able than most code.
This phone has a 19.5:9 screen so 16:9 videos will have vertical black bars on either side that are thick enough to envelop the notch. You can see that in this [1] hands-on video.

[1] https://youtu.be/OzTLlolkXxU?t=4m22s
"This piece looks likes little more than propaganda from the credit reporting agencies. Shame on you Bloomberg."

No, it's not propaganda, it's regular journalism.

Google and FB are both 'large corps' whom journo bosses would be weary of offending, so no.

Whenever a journalist 'names names' of big companies, they're probably doing regular journalism.

The bad stuff happens when stories are suppressed to avoid upsetting advertisers.
A lot of people are talking about higher mandatory standards in the wake of this report, most importantly Ontario's Labour Minister:

https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2017/09/11/temp-work...

Publicity of the working conditions and pay of low-skilled workers invariably leads to calls for more stringent mandatory standards, as if you can outlaw poverty and low-living standards.

>>Unless the onus of taking on such check was so great that they suddenly decide to put all their money into R&D, these jobs will continue to exist.

The effect is on the margins. No single mandate will have a significant impact, but each one adds costs, and in the aggregate, they have a significant effect on economic growth, which is a compounding effect that translates to massive long-term effects.
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I have one. I haven't worn it in almost a year. I guess I just don't get it. (Note: I also find watches uncomfortable. It's possible that I have a higher bar for usefulness than you because of this.)
uh, because if the effectiveness drops dramatically then you are literally going to be killing people.
Face recognition for authentification has been around for a quite a while, let's see how robust Apple could make it. It's still a weird future we're heading towards.

It makes me wonder what legal consequences it's gonna have once this kind of technology is widespread among all smartphones with high identification reliability? What's to stop anybody from combining different biometric identification systems into one device? A combination of Touch ID/Face ID, coupled with some voice recognition and whatever else is possible with biometrics, would probably be able to identify the user with a very high certainty.

Smartphones are also increasingly being turned into an "ID card replacement", even banks have been pushing to use them as a replacement for CC/Debit cards for years.

Which kinda makes sense considering how not every country has ID cards but a vast number of people on this planet have smartphones or at least mobile phones.
If one wanted to index the whole human population of planet Earth, it would probably a good start to "just" collect the SIM/IMEI data from all mobile phones in circulation. [0]

It's still a quite dystopian idea of a future, where the identity of a person is solely defined and legitimized by their smartphone/mobile device. Scary thing being: We are closer to this kind of future than it might seem; the aptly named US program "Skynet" uses mobile metadata for targeting selection of drone strikes, has been doing so for quite a while [1]

[0] https://www.gsmaintelligence.com/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKYNET_(surveillance_program)
How is it undocumented? The resolv.conf man page on Red Hat says "If there are multiple servers, the resolver library queries them in the order listed."
>All battery claims depend on network configuration and many other factors; actual results will vary.

They may not be the only offenders but it bugs me that the tech specs don't tell you the battery capacity in mAH. Instead they give a relative number of hours and compare to previous phones. Those aren't tech specs, they're claims-- which they can say in fine print are unreliable.
How was the DB structured? For example was "brown house down from church" in some sort of structured field ("Address 1") or more open ended? What if the brown house was painted red, could those with local knowledge update it in a timely way?

And why would Canada Post need your data? Was it just a typical slow moving state enterprise or did you guys just do a better job? They likely had many decades more experience than your company...
I recommend against using biometric identification
Most people who buy bitcoin buy fractions of one. A lot purchase it through sites like coinbase.com (I am not affiliated with them).
Then you put in a container with something small written on it ;)
Apple specifically says not to do this in their updated Human Interface Guidelines.
The aspect ratio of the screen is wider than 16:9, so full-screen 16:9 video will be boxed in on the other dimension first.
Street naming and numbering dept of your district council. They notify Royal Mail.
Really? Take a look at everything else the federal government does and tell me it could possibly end up being anything better.
Exactly this. I know someone who worked on the Android team around the time the 5x/6p was released. This person, though working for Android, still admired the iPhone greatly. I could see how this mindset transferred to the entire team.
Maybe turn your face 45 degrees for a second?

Or just use the passcode if you're unable to do that for some reason.
"Why does it matter if it's under legal compulsion or not. "

Because we are all obliged to follow the law.
This isn't accurate. When you now pay for a year long "subscription" you own that version and can use it indefinitely. Exactly like buying a version-license previously.
Huge hacker event in Italy to refactor the public sector
No, you didn't have Face ID on your 950, you had whatever you had.

It's Apple's speciality to take good ideas that were never implemented properly and do it properly.
The key point is that you can say things like, "per million miles, Tesla auto pilot use has resulted in X fewer fatalities", however, unless the data leading to that statement has been normalized against data representing the exact use case of Tesla auto pilot then it is false. The only way to say that Tesla autopilot is safer per million miles than a human is to base the figure on when the Tesla auto-pilot could be used. I'm not sure I've ever seen that data from Tesla. Who knows, maybe they have it and I've just not seen it. If they do, very cool. I would assume they could get the data by taking sensor readings from Tesla cars under human control in situations where auto-pilot could be used.
This is a blind guess but I wonder if the shared phone number between devices has trouble with roaming.
Hack.Developers, promoted by the Digital Transformation Team together with Codemotion, is going to be the biggest code sprint ever done in Italy!

On Oct 7th and 8th all the Italian tech communities and developers can join a programming marathon running in parallel in 25 Italian cities (plus San Francisco!)
The aim is to make public services easier for the citizens, simpler, more effective.

Software developers, IT experts, students, can contribute with their talents and skills, helping the public administration to digitally transform the country

All the participants will develop open source code to enhance the projects hosted in the developers.Italia.it platform, launched the last March.

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I used to work in medical research and I've been saying this for years. It's amazing what tenuous results get published in fields like biology and psychology, and it's even more amazing how those tenuous results get spun into concrete "facts" by a credulous public.
Lacklustre? No. Revolutionary? No. They're just phones. They don't really do much more than today's phones do, but then again the new 2018 Mercedes models coming out don't really do much more than the 2017 models did either. This is a mature market and it's really incremental changes from here on out.

Having said that, the AirPower was a nice touch - and hey! Apple supported an existing standard: Qi wireless charging!

I think the biggest news was the Apple Watch Series 3. Finally we have a watch that would make Dick Tracy proud! It's looking more and more like Apple is eyeing a future where the watch replaces your phone.
This is so true. My opinion is that the MIT administration does not give a damn about undergraduate students.
It only begs the question because you decided to bring it up.
Probably not, but trying to run the company by the philosophy of "Would Jobs have done this" is impossible, since if emulating Steve Jobs' brain was possible, he wouldn't have been a unique talent.
Worth noting that this isn't new to iPhones, and it was introduced last year specifically in regards to protecting against falling into a pool.
> Perhaps you could include poverty and despair (and trace back from there to a collapsing education system, ideological pathology...).

It's really not about that -- although that certainly contributes to some drug use.

"The opioid epidemic began in the 1990s, when doctors became increasingly aware of the burdens of chronic pain. Pharmaceutical companies saw an opportunity, and pushed doctors — with misleading marketing about the safety and efficacy of the drugs — to prescribe opioids to treat all sorts of pain. Doctors, many exhausted by dealing with difficult-to-treat pain patients, complied — in some states, writing enough prescriptions to fill a bottle of pills for each resident."

This is not about people in poverty turning to drugs -- this is about people in pain going to the doctor, and being prescribed an addictive, dangerous substance as treatment.

"Over the past couple of decades, the health care system, bolstered by pharmaceutical companies, flooded the US with painkillers. Then illicit drug traffickers followed suit, inundating the country with heroin and other illegally produced opioids that people could use once they ran out of painkillers or wanted something stronger.

"The other opioids arguably pose even bigger risks than painkillers. Heroin is generally more potent, so it’s more addictive and more likely to cause overdose. And fentanyl is even more potent than heroin, and it’s also often laced into illicitly sold heroin without a user’s knowledge — increasing the odds he’ll take a much bigger dose than he can handle.

"The result is that as opioid painkiller deaths leveled off over the past few years, heroin and fentanyl deaths have rapidly increased."

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/3/16079772/opi...
No roaming is very bad since I'm a crazy business traveler :(
I may have gone to a similar talk when Kip was at my school, what a coincidence!
The TechCrunch/Verge links were on the home page already, so it seems they decided to consolidate into one thread and change the link to the product page.
If it's using steel does that mean it will be magnetnetic?

That would be neat to attach it to my wall. And it would open up a lot of options for car holders.
Still no round watch face? I feel my 2nd Gen Moto 360 and Samsung S8+ look considerably better than any of Apple's offerings. Disappointing.
Honestly, my wife and I had no previous exposure to leaks besides "there will be something expensive".

And then it felt like the real Apple magic. We sat there and at every product presented we said "Wow, we want this. NOW!". While the iPhone 8 still felt quite normal, the iPhone X absolutely killed it for us. And let's not begin with the eSim-Watch... which is so SciFi that I wanted it back in 1990 when I was still 8 years old. We have to appreciate that there is more to life than revolution, Apple "simple" does evolution at a very high level and in the end, they lead the competitors. Today, we could see the stuff that Samsung and others will get right in a year or two. When Apple already presents their next evolution... It is not about having the right specs, but the right concept. I already know the friend who will come to me tomorrow that his HTC has and 8 core processor while Apple has only six. The point is: it is all useless without the whole package being perfect. And while Apple is freaking expensive upfront, the peace of mind is worth it.
Just. Great.
Could this be considered an alternative to Discourse?