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Re: Another Day Has Come

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Post by _d3p9 »

simonw wrote: post #78
_d3p9 wrote: post #75

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> The answer to my question appears to be "it's a secret, I'll tell you in private, everyone at Apple thinks like this". Because that is the truth. I have no intention of sharing confidential information publicly. Your take is "someone won't betray their previous employer publicly, so they must be lying." I offered to share my thoughts, work experience, and other details with you privately. I've lost all respect for…

Before I spend time talking to someone I like to be reasonably confident that it's going to be a valuable conversation. The vibes aren't great here.

What "vibes"? I do NOT like John as a person. That has no bearing on whether or not what I'm claiming is true.

I was an engineer at both Microsoft and Apple. I have extensive experience at both companies in how we shared information with 3rd parties and how we intentionally cultivated those relationships for specific purposes.

I'm currently building an interesting tool for macOS that Claude can't build on its own. I was considering reaching out to you because I was certain you'd find Claude's responses interesting. It is mind-boggling that this is how you interact with people publicly.

Re: Another Day Has Come

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Post by ks2048 »

throwanem wrote: post #16

Until now Apple hasn't addressed the mass market in nearly two decades. That's one human generation, and it is also the span of time between when something first hits and when it sees its first retro revival. That isn't a coincidence. I'm starting to get a little excited! This is going to be quite a decade.

People want another "iphone"-level impact. I would bet there never will be. A device that does everything that we carry with us will also be like an evolution of the smart phone.

The only possibility I can imagine is a home robot that takes off.

Re: Another Day Has Come

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Post by layer8 »

Robdel12 wrote: post #15

> “When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI.” I just have to call out how much this impacted my mom’s life. She’s 100% blind and has access because of her iPhone and iPad. Yes she learned JAWSs and literally took classes to do it. Every single windows update has made it so she’d have to retake this class. The iOS updates a rocky but she isn’t literally hamstrung. My…

I’m not blind, but I’m using accessibility features like Speak Screen, and the text-to-speech is pretty poor (mispronunciations abound, markup is ignored, punctuation is misinterpreted), usability is poor (can’t start at a user-selected location on a page for example), and it’s rather buggy, especially within Safari. It’s been that way for years, and it doesn’t seem like anyone at Apple is interested in making it a better experience.

Re: Another Day Has Come

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Post by ubercore »

tguedes wrote: post #54
ubercore wrote: post #10

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Didn't the Apple Faithful say the same for usb-c?

I'm not sure how they are related. USB-C was not really a technical challenge or had trade-offs. I'm not a hardware engineer but from what I've read, having an easily replaceable battery would degrade the water resistance of the phone.

Same type of concerns were raised about usb-c: more dust collects, worse connector design, would make the phones too thick, etc etc.

Re: Another Day Has Come

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Post by benoau »

jshaqaw wrote: post #72

Cook was an able steward of Apple. Under his leadership the hardware side continued to iteratively improve nicely. Apple Silicon is good stuff. I am firmly embedded in the entire Apple ecosystem and have no reason to leave. I do wish Apple used some of its massive cash hoard and market power to do better in software. The iPad remains my favorite form factor to use in lots of my day but Apple never invested in killer…

The TV shows and stuff were never in competition for their money, they spent over $700 billion on stock buybacks in the last decade that's where it went, and they certainly could have spent a miniscule portion of that to ignite the iPad and AVP software scene. It will be interesting to see if they change approach with the folding iPhone, the rumour mill says it won't support iPad apps so it is primed for the same problem.

Re: Another Day Has Come

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Post by ubercore »

alexjplant wrote: post #51
ubercore wrote: post #10

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Didn't the Apple Faithful say the same for usb-c?

Lightning is a superior physical design to USB-C (can't speak to the electrical part). Much like every major tech battle in history, however [1], the worse solution won because of ubiquity. I'm not particularly thrilled because I've had a USB-C connector irretrievably break off in a port once on a laptop but I'll make that trade for being able to use a single cable for all of my devices. - Not an "Apple Faithful" [1]…

I've never had trouble with usb-c, but have had lightning connectors short out and burn one of the leads, or stop working from dust. Not sure I'd say one is better than the other, but individual experience can really vary on these kind of things. Tough to say one is clearly better imo.

Re: Another Day Has Come

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Post by criddell »

simonw wrote: post #41
stetrain wrote: post #7

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As far as I know it should be pretty easy for Apple to comply with the regulation. The battery needs to be replaceable with standard or freely available tools and without adhesives. Many of Apple’s devices already meet this standard. Edit: I'm not sure on the adhesives part. Apple uses an electrically-releasable adhesive in some of their newer products. The MacBook Neo doesn't use battery adhesive at all. There are c…

I don't think any of the iPhone or iPads do. Their design is pretty tightly coupled to weird shaped, permanently attached batteries, from what I've heard.

I've read that Apple's products fall outside the scope of the regulation because their product batteries can do 1000 cycles and still hit the 80% benchmark.

Re: Another Day Has Come

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Post by simonw »

_d3p9 wrote: post #81
simonw wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Before I spend time talking to someone I like to be reasonably confident that it's going to be a valuable conversation. The vibes aren't great here.

What "vibes"? I do NOT like John as a person. That has no bearing on whether or not what I'm claiming is true. I was an engineer at both Microsoft and Apple. I have extensive experience at both companies in how we shared information with 3rd parties and how we intentionally cultivated those relationships for specific purposes. I'm currently building an interesting tool for macOS that Claude can't build on its own. I…

The vibes of starting a thread with "You've never met a more conceited asshole", followed by attacking my credibility with "you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about" and "I am supremely disappointed in your comments here" purely because I asked "what's the grift?".

It was mainly the "I am supremely disappointed in your comments here" thing that put me off, I didn't see how that was a reasonable response to what I had commented in this thread.

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