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That's funny because i got used to the force touch application switching gesture of swiping from the left side. When I got handed an ipad, I found myself making the gesture and then remembering that I need the double press on the home button.
If you didn't know a four finger swipe will switch apps on the iPad.
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I don't agree, but I am open to understanding more. I liked your examples of cars or iPods. I agree that as specific solutions there was not demand before the existed, however there was clearly demand for personal transportation and portable music players. What is the equivalent for portability?
> however there was clearly demand for personal transportation and portable music players. I think that makes my point further. There is demand for social networks I'll concede that portability may or may not be the next big thing for social networks. Let's speak more generally. People want better social networks. They want to connect with friends more easily. To be honest, my Facebook feed is improving bit by bit, b…
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I'm guessing you downvoted me because you disagree with my point of view. I'll just tell you this: I have been thinking a lot about the stuff you talk about here and even prototyped a hardware device to try out the idea. I had the same point of view (It would be nice to have an input device I can use without even looking) but after experimenting I realized this isn't the case. Also this "vibration" thing you're talki…
Back when I used blackberry phones I absolutely could use the keyboard without looking. They used slightly different shapes/intersections for each key and it was all muscle memory and little looking. The touch screen keyboards are more practical in many ways but they can never truly replicate a physical keyboard. (I long ago traded the fidelity of the actual keyboard for the convenience of a touch keyboard.)
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> however there was clearly demand for personal transportation and portable music players. I think that makes my point further. There is demand for social networks I'll concede that portability may or may not be the next big thing for social networks. Let's speak more generally. People want better social networks. They want to connect with friends more easily. To be honest, my Facebook feed is improving bit by bit, b…
Erm, it seems as though you are explaining why competition is good. Is there somethings else that I'm missing?
Perhaps this is just a recent revelation for me, and talking about it helps form my thoughts. And maybe I'm wrong about FB. I don't use Snapchat or Instagram etc. My sense is that FB is far ahead.
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It's actually less effort, though. It's basically impossible at this point to brute force an iPhone password, and even if you use TouchID a thief could theoretically still try and break in using the backup numeric password. Also it's been shown that depending on how you use your phone, usable fingerprints can be lifted right off the screen (you touch it all the time after all), so someone who is after your data doesn…
Where has that been demo'd using anything like a realistic scenario? Every iPhone since the 3GS had oleophobic glass - combine with cloth pockets and any fingerprints are not going to be high-quality enough to survive for long.
The oleophobic glass coating is a joke, at least on my 5s. I can easily make out a clear fingerprint from touching the screen with a solid press.
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It's actually less effort, though. It's basically impossible at this point to brute force an iPhone password, and even if you use TouchID a thief could theoretically still try and break in using the backup numeric password. Also it's been shown that depending on how you use your phone, usable fingerprints can be lifted right off the screen (you touch it all the time after all), so someone who is after your data doesn…
TouchID isn't to make you a better international spy, but rather to deal with realistic threats. The average person is much more likely to have their password stolen by somebody watching them enter it over and over every time they look at their phone than somebody who is going to go through the trouble to replicate fingerprints.
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That was a theme at a place I used to work a few years ago, but it was internally. How can we accommodate employees who don't have Internet access at home. Mainly focused on truck drivers who live a hundred miles away from their distribution center and park their truck at home at night, with the question being "how can they log their miles". So we needed a VPN that could support dial-up, and a trucker logging tool th…
My argument in the meeting was that our company has over 15,000 clients who are businesses themselves, and maybe 100 of them don't have internet access. Most of these clients intentionally keep their computers disconnected because "the internet causes viruses". I understand that any good company wants to provide quality service to all of their existing customers, but dedicating resources and devising workarounds for…
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My argument in the meeting was that our company has over 15,000 clients who are businesses themselves, and maybe 100 of them don't have internet access. Most of these clients intentionally keep their computers disconnected because "the internet causes viruses". I understand that any good company wants to provide quality service to all of their existing customers, but dedicating resources and devising workarounds for…
I was agreeing with you and trying to provide a complimentary example :) It's hard to grow when you're hindered by the long forgotten past.
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Erm, it seems as though you are explaining why competition is good. Is there somethings else that I'm missing?
I think most people know competition is good for the consumer. I'm saying, competition is also good for the companies themselves. Often in tech you see one company, its employees, or its users lambasting the competition. It is self defeating to wish away all your competition. It is a rare company who can continue to innovate in the face of having no competition. Right now FB doesn't have much competition in the US fo…
I sometimes like to think of it as not so much a benefit of competition as a risk for monopoly holders.
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I think most people know competition is good for the consumer. I'm saying, competition is also good for the companies themselves. Often in tech you see one company, its employees, or its users lambasting the competition. It is self defeating to wish away all your competition. It is a rare company who can continue to innovate in the face of having no competition. Right now FB doesn't have much competition in the US fo…
I don't think everyone realizes the benefits of competition for the companies but many of us do, a and it wasn't clear that this was really the point you were making. I sometimes like to think of it as not so much a benefit of competition as a risk for monopoly holders.
For sure. It is also a risk for state-favored companies that hold monopolies inside authoritarian regimes. Their growth will probably be limited to their own country. Without local competition, it may be difficult to make the leap to global competitiveness. This is very theoretical as I have no experience. But I think you can draw some parallels to the way politicians cut their teeth. They begin at the local level and work their way up.