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Re: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

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Post by e12e »

alpaca128 wrote: post #517
e12e wrote: post #287

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> ... and window management has too much friction. So, you don't use macos?

I use it with a couple tools like Rectangle which make it usable enough for me. Half the time I'm managing "windows" in Vim and tabs in the browser, and in those the OS doesn't really matter. The thing that annoys me most is that there's no global shortcut for new terminal windows. It's possible with some weird hacks but never really reliable or fast.

> The thing that annoys me most is that there's no global shortcut for new terminal windows.

Did you look at skhd?

https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

I found it through the yabai window manager - but I'm starting to think I might be better off with something less ambitious - as macos apis are restricted and yabai needs a lot of privileges to work with screen/desktops :'(

But skhd is very simple and powerful - it can run commands and also insert text (I rebind some keys for brackets and tilde which are annoying on Mac intl layouts).

Eg:

    # open terminal, blazingly fast compared to iTerm/Hyper
    cmd - return : /Applications/kitty.app/Contents/MacOS/kitty --single-instance -d ~

    alt - k : skhd --text "~"

Re: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

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Post by mcphage »

crazygringo wrote: post #124
mcphage wrote: post #109

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> They replace these devices about every 2-3 years. Some people do, but definitely not “almost every adult in the developed world”.

Statistically yes, the average is between 2 and 3 years, you can look up the stats from multiple sources. Obviously parent meant an average, not that almost nobody goes for 1 year and almost nobody goes for 4. And heck even if you mean to keep it for longer, they're small semi-fragile things that are uncommonly easy to lose and break.

You’re right, and that came as a real surprise to me. My current phone is 5 years, and I’m into tech, so I assumed that the average people was at least as long as what I usually do.

Re: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

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Post by tcmart14 »

mywacaday wrote: post #478
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I switched to my first iPhone last year and for me the determining factor was not feeling I had to constantly be on the upgrade path. I've has my iPhone SE (2020) and haven't been happier with a phone. A taken care of iPhone can theoretically last 7-8 years since that is how long an iPhone generally gets OS and security updates. Android is getting better on flagship phones, but still not as good. By some none flagshi…

I got the Galaxy Note 10+ over 3 years ago and I can't imagine a a phone without a stylus now. The ability to take a note in a second without opening the phone is worth its weight in gold to me. As soon as somebody makes a foldable with a stylus I'm all in, just wish there was more options than Samsung.

The Galaxy Note with the stylus is one of the few that have panned out and stood the test of time. When it first came out, it was a bit gimmicky, but now that it has stood the test of time and isn't going anywhere, today it definitely is not a gimmick.

Re: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

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Post by MichaelZuo »

krzyk wrote: post #391
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It can't work unless Apple is allowed to sell phones without a warranty, which is illegal in most countries.

EU will force them to open up. Just like with usbc.

It doesn't matter what the EU wants, it's not legally credible that a company can be forced to support a product with a warranty when the end user can modify it enough to brick it.

The courts would almost certainly rule against such a law, that forces both a warranty and openness, if challenged.

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Post by seabriez »

soderfoo wrote: post #296
seabriez wrote: post #72

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M1 saved my marriage, and before that it saved my life as well. My mom loves M1 more than me.

If you don't mind, I'd love if you could share a bit about how it helped your marriage. Serendipitous solutions enthrall me, and broadens my thinking for when I'm faced with a condondrum.

After I bought M1 for my wife, she doesn't even need to be in the same state as me. It's truly a marriage saver.

Re: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

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Post by dumpsterdiver »

sumedh wrote: post #337
dumpsterdiver wrote: post #311

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I used to blame Tim for design decisions that lead to the keyboard fiasco and the touchbar (I just felt like it never would have happened if Jobs was still there). After seeing the tremendous success that he's lead the company to my view has softened a bit. Even if those atrocities might have been avoided if Jobs was still around, there's no denying at this point that Tim was the right choice for CEO.

> I used to blame Tim for design decisions that lead to the keyboard fiasco and the touchbar Was that Tim or Ive?

Tim was CEO when I personally noticed the keyboard issue on my own devices, and I admit I wasn't paying much attention before I started having problems. I really don't know if Tim made that call or not, I only know that he was around to blame when it affected me.

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Post by graeme »

mrkramer wrote: post #217
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You can also view the $15 billion as a bribe to prevent apple from trying its hand at search. Apple already has a substantial search effort behind the scenes

$15 billion makes no sense to me as well; why would you give that huge amount of money to some other company no matter how big and important they are if you believe that you search engine is the best in the world. That makes me conclude that Google has doubts in their own search engine and they are indeed afraid of Bing or some other search engine replacing them pretty soon and pretty quickly in the future.

Nono. It's largely because defaults are powerful. A lot of people simply don't change what they start with. If google has the default they get more money, more than $15 billion, plus they blunt competitors.

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Post by graeme »

alphabetting wrote: post #106
graeme wrote: post #86

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You can also view the $15 billion as a bribe to prevent apple from trying its hand at search. Apple already has a substantial search effort behind the scenes

That doesn't make sense though. If they are already working on it why would Google fund that. Doesn't really make sense as a bribe. Additionally, I don't think Google is worried about a search competitor. It's all about the default search eyeballs. Microsoft has invested an insane amount to Bing and after 13 years they have 3% market share.

Sure it does. Apple isn't short of funding. If they think a search engine would be profitable they have the capital. Whats the $15 billion does is this:

1. Controls the default. Lots of people never change it, so Google gets more customers, worth more than $15 billion 2. Starves potential competitors of revenue such as Bing 3. Reduces Apple's incentive to go full tilt into search engine development. They now have to give up $15 billion

Apple's new ads business changes the calculus though and they may have more incentive to deploy a search engine in the near future

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Post by lab14 »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #502
lab14 wrote: post #492

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Did you really compare having an iPhone with abusing your wife and heroine addiction?

It implies that people on HN are intelligent enough to understand that analogies are not meant to be a one of one match instead of using it as an excuse to prepare for a twitter like outrage.

Ahh yeah, the good ol' "you're too dumb to understand my spaghetti analogy". My hero.

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Post by dillondoyle »

RC_ITR wrote: post #515
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'only' for a middleman, who doesn't even do the bare minimum job of saying: hey, we're shipping more opiate pills to this zip code every month than there are people x 100

Of all the links in the chain for the Opiate Crisis, you're going to blame the distributor of the pills? I get it, hindsight in 20/20 etc., but those pills were prescribed by highly-trained doctors and fulfilled by highly-trained pharmacists who thought they were doing the right thing and you expect some non-M.D. to have the foresight and understanding to say 'Sure, CVS is ordering this amount from us because they ha…

there were HUGE amounts of MDs purposefully not doing the right thing and running pill mills.

And yeah, distributors for sure have experts and resources to hire experts. And they were repeatedly warned/directed to stop the insane volume. They knew of this. They weren't ignorant, even on purpose.

The opiate lobbyists slyly got the law changed so the DEA couldn't enforce with stop notices.

IIRC In Gibney's documentary they interviewed some of the Congresspeople who voted for it and they thought the bill did the opposite.

pharmacists also had the right to refuse and some did! but Purdue often intervened and pressured them to fill the scripts. I think that was shown either in gibney or maybe the great hulu purdue miniseries?

wapo "THE DRUG INDUSTRY’S TRIUMPH OVER THE DEA"

https://archive.ph/VYOeM

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