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by roc 9y ago
Admit? Like it's a secret he's trying to cover up? Apple people simply don't care. They know Apple's "late." (Inasmuch as someone else has done a similar thing, or used a similar piece of tech "first&quot
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by roc 9y ago
Let's assume some measurable number of people might do this, purely for arguments sake. Why does the resale value of old iPhones not reflect these devices being "unusable?"
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by roc 9y ago
Good. Now add a distinction between IAPs for consumables vs features vs content.
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by roc 9y ago
The whole problem is that the batteries can't deliver that performance. They can throttle the chip to what the battery can deliver or it will crash. Maybe Apple's more conservative on the throttling, and some amount of perfor
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by roc 9y ago
I'd say "your notification tray", but it seems like the majority has already lost that one.
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by roc 9y ago
Apple needs to do way better at informing the user when the battery is notably degraded, and when that degradation is leading to notable throttling. Particularly, when as the throttling is severe (more than 25% or so) and when the user is
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by roc 9y ago
Who in the world would run right out and buy a new iPhone if their last one became unusable in one year? People switch to the iPhone because of their longer usable life compared to the competition. People pay more for old iPhones compa
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by roc 9y ago
I don't think you can have such a number, as it hinges so heavily on unknowable future usage and environmental factors. And frankly now that sudden shutdown isn't a thing, I don't think it matters much. Apple just has to co
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by roc 9y ago
I don't think geeks get to throw stones on shorthand. For Mb vs MB vs MiB alone we've lost any and all credibility.
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by roc 9y ago
Good old fashioned junk mail, background check services, and consumer research? Even if they keep their literal word and don't sell your actual history, and you use SSL so they can't see specific content , they can certainly make
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by roc 10y ago
Through leaks like this one. Leaks that can be partially validated or corroborated, but which (by their nature) cannot be entirely proven true. And those leaks were very transparently beneficial to a person/group who are also going to
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by roc 10y ago
The problem with this comparison is that, while it's not remotely easy , it's far easier to compete with Facebook or Google than to compete with an ISP. Facebook barely existed 10 years ago. And it wasn't until maybe the l
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by roc 10y ago
It would make perfect sense if they'd bundled a controller (and/or made it more straightforward to have ipads/ipods/phones usable as controllers) and put an A8X in it. It would've been the middle ground. Not just
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by roc 10y ago
I would guess: 1. Because the mindset of work > leisure is rewarded in the U.S., so wealthier people aren't choosing work because they're wealthier, they're wealthier because they choose work. 2. Because they have more lev
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by roc 10y ago
It didn't? I distinctly remember the same sort of FUD progression with regards to the ozone hole. 1. It wasn't actually happening/a problem. (It's hippy nonsense. [insert sarcastic comment about saving butterfl
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by roc 10y ago
Basically, yeah. Some stuff is necessarily distinct. But an awful lot of it is not. And given the way this tech is advancing, and the cost of retrofitting, most of the stuff people will first encounter and install will fall under the umbr
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by roc 10y ago
As terrible as this idea is for phones -- it's perfect for home automation. Having each and every widget doing its own network and software stack is just a mess. Nevermind having to power all these gadgets. There's very little rea
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by roc 10y ago
The environmental conditions of a 'scorched' Earth aren't themselves that big a problem. The bigger problem is the disparity between how many people are on Earth now, and how many people we can support in those new environmen
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by roc 10y ago
If the choice is between data security and a few family members being unwilling to click an email link, I'd choose data security. Let's face it: the kind of people who only look at your photos when they're very convenient to
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by roc 11y ago
It did when the alternative was the entire educational process behind knowing what they need, what tradeoffs are inherent, what the price should be , what vendors provide it at the acceptable price, what drawbacks come with those other ven
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by roc 11y ago
For some users, sure. But that'd be about the user, not the platform. And more specifically, that'd probably be mostly about the time and place of use, not even the user. If those same people had a 27" screen during that sa
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by roc 11y ago
When you already know which vendors you're using. If we get our misc bits from newegg, I might search newegg, but I don't need google.
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by roc 11y ago
Well, yeah, at the scale of "real research" it doesn't really work. But you wouldn't want to do that on a tiny screen even if copy/paste was up to it. You probably wouldn't even want to do it on a laptop scre
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by roc 11y ago
Are taking notes, managing projects, sending emails, outlining documents, etc not active ?
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by roc 11y ago
Don't all the browsers offer some implementation of 'cloud tabs', cloud bookmarks, and/or 'read later' sorts of features? Who needs copy/paste?
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by roc 11y ago
Since when does search correlate to productivity ? Communicating, managing projects, taking notes, reviewing/signing documents, sending payments, drafting designs, outlining documents, finding/ordering kit -- are these not prod
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by roc 11y ago
Luckily, patents aren't granted for ideas, but for specific executions. Granted, the execution is generally defined at a higher level than, say, "this exact chunk of silicon". But it's at a much lower level than the &qu
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by roc 11y ago
> can anyone argue that the anti-vaxxers don't have a point when they're on about exactly this sort of profit-driven evil from Big Pharma Yes; they do not have a point as regards vaccines. Because vaccines are so essential to
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by roc 11y ago
I'm guessing you're talking about the recent spike in shootings? That spike has a long way to go to reach the peaks of the 70s and 90s.
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by roc 11y ago
Because cities without New York's policies saw the same drop in crime?

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