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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 …

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 sa…

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 na…

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 …

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 …

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 togeth…

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 produ…

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 …

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. …

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…

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. Previ…

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 an…

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…

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 req…

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 threa…

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…

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 a…

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 …

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 vari…

> 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 comp…

Yeah, but imagine sending your own adversarial bot to take the call for you.

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 wi…

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.

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 singl…

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 …