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Apple has always been about incremental improvements. Once every several years, it makes something that’s very different and leagues ahead. It has never had mind blowing product releases in consecutive years.

In the initial years of the iPhone and Apple Watch, the hardware wasn’t really very powerful (but Apple’s vertical integration and software made the most of it). Talking more about iPhone, ever since the A4 chip was released, the Apple Silicon chips have grown leaps and bounds over the years. Nowadays the performance improvements in each iteration of iPhones don’t matter much for the kind of usage most people have.

One area that does show improvements every year is the cameras on iPhone, especially on the high end models. The iPhone 13 brought a dramatic improvement in low light photography compared to all other generations before it (and the competition). The difference is literally day and night. That’s something you may have missed noticing if you’ve followed or used the devices over the last 6-7 years.

It may probably be the case that the features are or have been good enough for you. It’s been that way for a lot more people, which is a big reason why the upgrade cycle for iPhones has elongated over time from once a year to once every two years and now around once every three or four years. It’s also why Apple has the iPhone upgrade program and other incentives (in the U.S. and some other countries) to get people to buy new iPhones every year. This saturation and extended upgrade cycles are why Apple has been growing its services divisions (and revenues) in the last several years.
That only happened for a few months in 2021. Since then theh haven't stopped anyone from getting it.
I question if Apple really cares about or is serious about gaming. My impression is they use it as an excuse to showcase hardware improvements since games are happy to soak up pretty much any hardware that's thrown at it.

That seems to be where their concern for gaming stops. There is Apple Arcade, but it feels like the least amount they could do for the size of their company.

I do think they care about it over the longer-term, particularly in light Vision Pro and their overall AR strategy.
That's akin to a psychedelic experience: that reality feels more real than the everyday reality we live in, which, in comparison, comes across as quite shallow.
My three year old daughter can tell the difference. We keep reggiano on hand and if you give her an inferior Parmesan she will ask for the “good one”. My grocery store buys the wheels from Italy and it’s much better to grate it on demand.
Yeah, but then what would they make dog food and jello out of?

/s
Finally! At last they adopt USB-C!

This has been the only reason I've not been using an iPhone for some time now.

I love just having one cable that charges everything (phone, laptop, headphones, tablet, you name it - desk fans, white noise machines, thermometers, cameras etc etc etc)
Still can't install uBlock Origin or any other firefox add-on? Deal-breaker. Sorry Apple, that's one more $1200 phone you're not selling me.
The following is a pretty good overview:

"A Survey of Computer Architecture Simulation Techniques and Tools"
- IEEE Access 2019
- Ayaz Akram, Lina Sawalha
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8718630

For more see also: https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/comparch.md#e...
I mask in close indoor situations. I am not paranoid. Why do you think he is paranoid?
Hi, how long did you use it? I bought some knock-off version of magnetic adapter and it broke in a few weeks of active use, so I very curious about your expirience with it.
Because gaming is one of the last remaining markets that apple can dominate in and profit. Microsoft spent a lot of money on Activision to claw back against apple

If your eyes hurt then switch to literally any other apple device, Apple TV, Mac, iPad, iPhone… they all have access to Apple Arcade. When cloud gaming streams asset objects and not raw video, then it’d be a contender. As of now, it’s too expensive and is losing to mobile games

https://imgur.com/a/BG2hexr
Running an Air Conditioner in a small room for an hour (~500Wh) uses the same energy an iPhone would take in ~40 complete charge/discharge cycles. Of course, the numbers look big when you scale them up but as a percentage of total energy use, it's marginal to non-existent.
"The expected value of a random variable with a finite number of outcomes is a weighted average of all possible outcomes." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value
Yes and no.

People don't pirate PS5 games not because Sony's service is so good, but because the device is so secure that piracy is virtually impossible on it, so getting games the legal way is also the only way.

The PC was and still is, way too open for that to be achievable, though they have tried with various malware DRM, including Sony. With the PC being so open, it became a battleground to competition, which led to prices being so low.
You didn't need an adapter, just a cable. In recent years, that cable came included with the iPhone. And it's the same cable used for charging the phone.
EU would have field day with that (if you were correct, which I bet you are not) considering they require standards-compliant USB-C by law.
Any source to this?

Because I think Alex Agius Saliba will have an unkind word to Apple if they try to pull that shit.
And if the vaccine makes you an asymptomatic carrier, that's a harm to others.

I think it's more useful to start with the question of what is actually happening, and examine the consequences from there. Otherwise, we find ourselves arguing in favor of our priors, which helps no one.
>Would I lose everything I paid for?

I probably don't have access to over 95% of games I bought as physical copies 20 years ago and I don't know how many hard drives have given up on me over that time.

Valve and the contract you have with them is actually more durable than stuff physically lying around the house, it just doesn't feel that way because we don't have a good intuition about how brittle digital information stored on physical media is.
Would be a shame if this happened to Peter Thiel or any of the other blood boy enthusiasts.
system might not be updated, but apps are. its not the end of the world in a realistic setting
I know this is controversial, but I wish commercial "source available" were the more mainstream / not-shat-upon approach to services, rather than "open core".

I find it very frustrating to not be able to read the code or contribute bug fixes or self-host anything outside the "open core", and I have no need for any of the things that distinguish "open source" licenses from "source available" ones.
> The quality of games on a platform is not directly related to its technical capabilities or SDK, but to the business model and platform incentives.

And also (mostly) the ergonomics.

Comparing a phone whose main purpose is definitely not gaming (at least the iPhone, I know there are some gaming-first phones) to a handheld console will always make the former look pathetic for this use-case.
There are interesting second-order effects. For example, this will tend to make wholesale leather less expensive, for producers of third-party bands and other small items (I assume that large items use a different type of leather, since they require larger swathes).

I'm surprised they're pricing these new fabric bands at $99. If they sold these alongside leather bands, would they sell at that price? Seems like they're trying to position them as a replacement for a premium product, but without any proof that they are worthy of the lofty price.
Nah, better for it to be a crime to be homeless in public
Yes, we do this, every time there's a holiday/PA Day, the days are pushed forward, so students won't miss that day.
The blog post: https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updat...

You are likely already paying a recurring cost to Unity, as per https://unity.com/pricing: Excluding the free Student & Personal tiers, the starting list price is $2,040 per year per user (for Unity Pro), going up to $4,950 per year per user for the top tier (Unity Industry).

So, this is a new charge, which becomes active when the following conditions are met for a particular game:

• # of installs, over the life of the game, passes 200k (Personal) or 1MM (Pro/Enterprise).
• Revenue, over the last 12 months, passes $200k (Personal) or 1MM (Pro/Enterprise).

Once both of those thresholds have been met, then you get charged a flat fee per install over the threshold. So, if you meet the Revenue amount, and you've had 200k/1MM installs, your next install requires you to pay a fee to Unity.

This is all covered in the table at https://unity.com/sites/default/files/2023-09/NewFeeTable.pn...

For games that are not being distributed through a channel (Steam, GoG, console/app store, etc.), this is going to be really annoying to track and report on. This is also going to be annoying for games that are distributed through multiple channels. Unity's probably going to get into the auditing game at some point; à la Microsoft, Oracle, etc.
Same. As a shorthand reference for "the article that is under discussion" it doesn't need to convey the hostility/frustration that "RTFM" does.

Unless you're saying "Did you even read the TFA?!?" but that would violate the code of conduct around here.
Weakest announcement in years. The watch was also devoid of any new features. This is borderline 'should have been a press release' territory.
Electricity seems to generally be expensive where the “free market” has enabled private companies to extract wealth, and then reasonable/cheap and reliable where a Goverment entity provides it. I love my 9c cad Goverment power (and that is after the last right leaning government saddled it with 20 billion in additional costs going straight to private companies)
Oh good, 128GB base storage, for 48MP camera + 4k@60 Pro Res video.
Stoicism means you're not taking the bait.

Ergo, since you can't be controlled through arousal (in the literal sense), you're written off as problematic/toxic/phobic.
I agree, a quote I heard from a former Apple employee from the onboarding materials: “Apple doesn’t do things first, we do things right.”
Because, frankly, they have won the economic war. Every modern country is 100% reliant on the manufacturing that happens in China.
100% agreed, and I have consistently said that software "engineering" can't be _real_ engineering (by which I mean equivalent to construction, mechanical, chemical, electrical, or aerospace engineering) unless and until you need to hold engineering credentials (with all the attendant responsibilities around continued learning and periodic re-testing) to do it.
Microsoft doesn't have any control over wine. It's a way of *breaking* microsoft's control, not extending it.

The games that need a windows ABI will never need a newer windows ABI without rolling out an update, and steam controls the updates. It doesn't matter what microsoft does with windows in the future, those games will continue to work.

Now all the games that work with wine are portable to any OS you want until the end of time.
My Samsung A40 from 2019 should have security updates until 2024. It's still getting them but not as often as in the first 3 years.
I think that's largely due to car manufacturers being shit at software. The previous generation of my current car was absolute trash when it came to CarPlay. Even the wired version of it sucked.

The 2023 model had the entertainment system massively upgraded. Wireless CarPlay is seamless and fast. The wireless charging pad isn't amazing but it does the job just fine.

I love wireless CarPlay now. :)
it will be more profitable if they sell the Siri entry point to the one who bothers to do the research , the same way they sell the search box to google.
> We will have to see. They have a 10% performance increase and I am betting there will be 5% coming from Clock Speed.

The big cores got faster, but the little ones did not.

> the performance cores are 10 percent faster... the efficiency cores are more efficient rather than being faster

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/apples-new-iphone-15...

Which sounds to me like a new version of the big cores, but not of the little cores on a more power efficient process node.

However, as always, time will tell.
Rewatching the event video, it sounds recording spatial videos is supported on both 15 Pro models (time stamp ~1:17:30). I don't see anything on the compare iPhone models page though: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/
For me it's Steam Deck, Soundcore Headphones, Phone (I use android), Laptop and Pill Dispenser (a medical device). It's nice just to grab my high speed steam deck charging brick and a spare USB-C to keep all that stuff in charging rotation overnight when out of the house.
> what about all the people who challenged what was "considered normal socially" and actually were proven wrong?

There are not many of those, because of herd mentality. (Edit: I mean Normalcy Bias, thanks "notabee")

If a person is unusual enough, they are dismissed as cranks without any sort of proof required.
iPhone 12 sales halted in France over too high radiation
People have been talking about this for at least two years. It's been a common topic in right-of-center circles, along with the (in)effectiveness of most masks.
Solutions to the Altruist's Burden: The Quantum Billionaire Trick
This is only talking about low oxygen demand scenarios.

"Each participant performed a six-minute walk test"

I've personally tested (out of curiosity) bicycling performance while wearing a half-face respirator that's barely noticeable during walking. Both measured speed and subjective difficulty were severely affected during high intensity exercise.
I do some handwriting (for journaling), and when I'm really tired, I sometimes also make these types of mistakes in Hungarian handwriting, though far less often than in typing. Probably we are always in a hurry, and should slow a bit down, and think twice (or more thoroughly) when composing text (or even in other aspects of our lives).
Straight cut gears in the transfer case.
Touché. But then we get to the four walls if we go that route…
The App Store is the real issue. Apple's antipathy towards developers is perplexing. The number of stories I've heard about companies having problems due to some interpretation of their policies is ridiculous. There are even horror stories about businesses going bankrupt simply because Apple decided they were in violation of something and banned them from the App Store entirely. I mean, no game company wants to spend millions on a game only to have all of their games pulled because one of them was too similar to someone else's game or something (according to some Apple reviewer with way too much power!).
Isn't web3 demand way down since the hype cycle ended a while back?

Thought everyone moved onto being AI experts?
Yes, openAI is dumping the market with chat-gpt 3.5. Vulture capital behaviour at its finest, and I'm sure government regulations will definitely catch on to this in 20 or 30 years...

It's cheaper than the ELECTRICITY cost of running a llama-70 on your own M1.Max (very energy efficient chip) assuming free hardware.

I guess they are also getting a pretty good cache hit rate - there are only so many questions people ask at scale. But still, it's dumping.
Is the DAC in the cheap dongle worse than the old built in DAC?
I have seen Steam turn into videogame Facebook over the years. Not my scene but there are people who care a lot about their "profile". Valve is genius.
They also increased the smallest storage size for the 15 Pro Max to 256 GB, which is a welcome change.
Free Download Manager backdoored – a possible supply chain attack on Linux
Not that high? I use about that much in a year. But I only use the car for hobbies and once-a-week heavy groceries, so I drive about 4000 km or 2500 miles in a year. The gasoline in Finland is about 9.8 USD/gallon at the moment :)
My FAVORITE thing to do with dry ice is make ice cream. It’s the smoothest ice cream you can make at home, and as a delightful bonus, it’s fizzy!

You have to crush the dry ice into graupel size (even better, into snow) for it to be safe, and it can be super messy if you add the dry ice too quickly. It’s important to make the pieces as small as possible to ensure they fully sublimate, and no dry ice is remaining in the mixture where it could be ingested. Frostbitten tongues are terrible; frostbitten stomachs are a threat to life.

Just start with a normal ice cream base in a large mixing bowl. If you have a stand mixer with a blade suitable for ice cream, that’s even better. Slowly (or there’ll be a big mess) add crushed/pulverized dry ice while mixing. Keep going until the ice cream is stiffer than soft-serve, but not so hard that you can’t mix it any more.

It’s colder than normal ice cream, so eat small mouthfuls. But damn, it’s got an indescribable /zing/ from the little bit of CO2 that dissolves into solution with ice cream base. SO GOOD.
This definitely has to do with handling. I always wad my cables up and stuff them in bags, no care to careful winding or anything—but they last forever, as long as I’m the only one using them.

What I don’t do is hold them under tension for long periods, or use them stretched taught then bent 90° right next to the connector. My wife and kids ruin cables in a few months, and that’s how they do it. I didn’t get what people were talking about with apple cables being fragile, until I saw that.

I developed my habit because the same behavior is bad on ports, too. I’d developed an unconscious avoidance to doing those things before I ever owned an Apple device, or had one at work. So my Apple cables last forever unless my wife or kids get ahold of them.
As a Unity developer, first this year our account manager told us our yearly fees were about to double and now runtime fees. One of the reasons we picked Unity was because of the fact they advertised (loudly) about the lack of runtime fees.
Not really, why should it be? The government pays for the sick leave after a certain time and the company, small or large, is free to hire temps/substitutes to fill in the gap.
Ehhhh I don't think DRM is why Steam is succeeding. By that logic, GoG should have taken over.

I think Gabe's original assessment is mostly correct - making things easily obtainable is more important than making them free.
That makes sense, I was always thinking of it as "Given an infinite number of trials..."
Also many hardware startups will launch with amazing build quality and then push out a cost cutting v2 product.
And? My android phones last on average 3 years, do everything I need and cost less than €200. The exception is the current Fairphone 3 I am using, which I paid 350€ and I am expecting to use for at least 5 years, possibly 7. How can one justify paying 3x the cost if not just to continue keeping myself tied into Apple?
where “small” here means the many trillions of stars in the observed universe.
No, they can't run it. llama 70 with 4 bit quantization takes ~50 GB VRAM for decent enough context size. You need A100, or 2-3 V100 or 4 3090 which all costs roughly roughly $3-5/h
Apple’s first ‘carbon neutral’ products are a red herring
> I wish my Garmin bike stuff had USB C.

Same, my last non-usb C devices are my inreach and edge 500. I guess it's a testament to how long they last.
> PS: why do you need an "app"? Do you need to tag homework/reading schedule to it?

No, it's just that I frequently loose physical paper, and just like the digital experince overall.
I like to woodwork and walk.

Spending 3 weeks in bed with COVID before the vaccines existed made me super risk adverse to people and especially people coughing. You have no concept of how long a week in bed is, let alone 3 of them. The long nights in pain. The long days just wishing you could get through the enormous headache to rest and sleep. The powerless feeling that you can't even sit up enough to do anything you have previously enjoyed. Heck, I still remember my son bringing in my copy of Cyberpunk that just came out and I didn't even have the energy to turn on my laptop on my lap to install it. Even when I got COVID again 2 years later and it was just a couple days in bed, I get super pissed off when people belittle it and the people who try to stay away from it.

Just last Saturday night, I was out shopping and some lady was walking around with a "smoker's cough". I tried to stay away and not go back into places she had been. When I got in line to check out and got stalled in front from a lady with a huge cartload and the cougher got behind me and started hacking her brains out, I just abandoned my cart and left.

I am not spending that many days of my life being sick again like that if I can ever help it. So when I say that YOU NEED TO REPRIORITIZE YOUR EMPATHY. Take that to mean that if this wasn't on a forum that I need to talk nice-nice, I would not be talking nice-nice.
Artifact… yeah.

Steam machines… yeah, maybe but no, not really? The first iteration yes, but the steam deck is a very successful handheld steam machine after all.
There aren't an infinite number of chess positions, moves or even games, so that's not a good example. It's possible to come up with a number game that could have infinite possibilities, but that doesn't mean that the universe could even contain some of the options within our visibility. Our current state of knowledge about the universe strongly suggests that there's a finite limit to the available knowledge (I.e. between the Planck scale and the visible horizon due to the speed of light).

A googolplex looks to be the first number we've found that is too big to be contained in our universe.
I think the title should definitely be changed to not be misleading ;)
There are also plenty of clips for Xbox or PlayStation controllers that whilst being a little top heavy, are quite comfortable and work well.
Not if you're a fruit fly.
AAA games will never be on the iPhone until the Steam and Epic stores are allowed on the platform. Even then I would be reluctant to buy a $60 game because there is a huge chance that the game will just stop working after two years of iOS updates.
> and they've been accumulating Lightning cables for a decade.

This is why I don't think Apple's electronic waste argument makes much sense. All devices I've bought in the last 5 years have been USB-C, while iPhone users were stuck on Lightning. If Apple had switched back then all those users would've been buying 5 years worth of cables that work with everything, rather than cables that work for only a few devices from a single manufacturer.
Appears to mean "fat wax" in Latin.
I am sad that the Pro is getting rid of the silent button. It is solid and I know when it's activated and I know it won't accidentally be on. Not sure I really need another push button. That silent button was/is a key feature of iPhone for me.
"IDK man, I just always use flexbox"
Is someone who argues with false equivalence making himself look like a fool?
My comment is not to say that people can't distinguish them, but that they are ignorant of the fact that "parmesan" is not DOP and "Parmigiano-Reggiano" is, and that they are not the same category.
I love Apple Arcade because I can trust whatever I get from it for my kids is not a gambling app in disguise.
Their fans also rather noisy. Although you shouldn't be able to hear your neighbors heat pump, I've experienced a rather annoying issue where the fans hit the exact eigenfrequency of the walls, only amplifying the noise inside.