AOsborn

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by AOsborn 3mo ago
He's being intentionally vague and combative in his statements. I think it's fair to assume there was a process issue when even as he admits he was "grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Googl
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by AOsborn 10mo ago
File transfer that just works . My mum can use airdrop. She sends us things. She doesn't need to install anything or configure things. She just uses the first-party UI. It's the same with Airpods. Bluetooth headphones? Yeah, you
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by AOsborn 10mo ago
With respect, you’re very out of touch. Connecting online is the primary social space for many kids nowadays, not in person. Some parents (or those without kids) have a bit of a naive view and think ‘social media’ and just imagine Facebook,
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by AOsborn 10mo ago
The part you’re missing is that the decision to be online isn’t like choosing to do drugs. It’s closer to deciding to go to parties and socialise at all. Social media for teens is ubiquitous and where your peers connect. It’s being included
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by AOsborn 2y ago
Yeah absolutely. I find Copilot is great if you add a small comment describing the logic or function. Taking 10s to write a one line sentence in English can save 5-10 mins writing your code from scratch. Subjectively it feels much faster to
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by AOsborn 2y ago
No, I disagree. This is about lifestyle ergonomics and your community. Like it or not, social media has significantly reshaped the world. Issues aside, it has brought people together and made communication significantly easier than in the p
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by AOsborn 2y ago
Absolutely agree. I'd say this goes one step further. We hand down older devices to our parents. They are completely happy with a device several generations back. The current product philosophy has completely cut them out as purchasers
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by AOsborn 3y ago
I absolutely am. Part of the appeal about iOS for me is that apps are reviewed for quality and don't have obvious scams or spywear inside. I'm happy to guide my parents to use and download apps from the app store without worrying
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by AOsborn 3y ago
I don't think it is egregious at all. Instead, many people seem to have had a head-in-the-sand view that many of the services Apple provided were no-cost, or done out of goodwill. So, now there is the option for alternative marketplace
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by AOsborn 3y ago
What? How do you think they support developing the OS, running security, notarizing and reviewing your apps etc. This needs to be funded somehow. I'm surprised there are commenters who have such a strong view - that they should just be
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by AOsborn 3y ago
But why? Apple is providing the whole ecosystem, operating system, security, notarization etc - there are costs to be covered. Of course there are costs incurred per install. Previously there were covered by a higher 30% fee on app costs. N
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by AOsborn 3y ago
That's an interesting point regarding suggestions. I wonder if they are having a massive drop in user engagement as the user base has matured. As in, anecdotally, all my friends and I just talk about using the radio from a track or ano
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by AOsborn 3y ago
That view misses the point for their likely customers. My company will be all over this. We 'could' continue to use open-source components we're gluing together ourselves. But risk-aversion and speed-of-iteration are key for
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by AOsborn 3y ago
I think you're looking at this completely the wrong way. This is like saying you'll only pay your brain surgeon for four hours work because that is as long as the operation you require will take. But that four hour operation is bu
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by AOsborn 3y ago
Because very few people use the term open core unless they are trying to be a pedant or nitpick, and your comment (and the grandparent) come off as trying to detract from the thread with a strawman. The original post even explicitly explain
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by AOsborn 3y ago
The offering by OP is a fairly common and accepted structure, and this seems like an unwarranted nitpick? Another org with a similar offering is Elastic, who offer Elasticsearch as a "Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine&q
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by AOsborn 3y ago
I think it is pretty fair to say that Diablo 1 did effectively create the genre as far as the history of gaming is concerned. The commercial and mainstream impact of that game vs anything prior to that is on a different magnitude. A similar
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by AOsborn 3y ago
Great point about failure to unify (or intentionally preventing it). The space is in a land-grab phase, where everyone wants to position themselves as the next Google, and control the channel. Will be interesting to see how this all plays o
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by AOsborn 3y ago
Good points - but I fundamentally disagree here. The whole ecosystem, culture and metaphor of having a 'device' with 'apps' is to enable access to a range of solutions to your various problems. This is all going to go aw
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by AOsborn 3y ago
> But none is really guaranteed to work as intended, indeed since it's all natural language, what's intended itself will remain a bit fuzzy to the humans as well. Yeah, you're completely correct. But this is exactly the sa
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by AOsborn 4y ago
Yeah, but imagine sending your own adversarial bot to take the call for you.
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by AOsborn 4y ago
I mean you're not wrong about the rug pull scenario, and you're specifically increasing reliance on one monolithic company. That said, you have exactly the same category of risk with hiring an employee or team. They could leave at
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by AOsborn 4y ago
Funny, I felt personally targeted in the release video. I have a 2019 MBP I have been waiting to upgrade, and I suspect a more than a few others are in the same situation.
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by AOsborn 4y ago
I thought this was absolutely the solution but backtracking a little now based on experience so far. We have a two-level, five bedroom new build in Auckland which came with a single-zone ducted system. So outputs are the bedrooms plus upsta
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by AOsborn 4y ago
I can't help but feel that the pricing is backwards. I understand funding the growth of the business but $120/year per-person isn't going to fly. Imagine trying to explain to your family why they should switch - oh, that is f
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by AOsborn 4y ago
Absolutely, swarms make a lot of sense. Also, the key difference between a 'hard' challenge like self-driving cars and something like self-sustaining agriculture is that the reliability doesn't need to be 100%. An achievable
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by AOsborn 4y ago
MacOS Monterey. Rock solid, does everything I need.
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by AOsborn 4y ago
It's not an asset. It doesn't provide value or a return.
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by AOsborn 4y ago
Anecdotally this isn't true. The only time I have heard anything about Stephen King in the past few years has been in relation to a tweet he has made. I think this is true for many significant accounts on the platform: I'm not goi
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by AOsborn 4y ago
> That quite literally cannot be the status quo going forward. Honestly, I disagree. The Apple customer experience and product ecosystem is just so far ahead of any competitors I don't want to use anything else. As far as the store

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