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Obnoxious overhyping is not normal in most cultures around the world.
What is a company that doesn't do obnoxious overhyping?
Casio
Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
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Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
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And what will I be able to do with that performance bump? I use a tablet mostly for taking notes, email and looking at websites. I can’t see how the former can get any quicker. The latter is slow mostly because of the websites themselves. Will games or office apps get faster or have new possibilities?
Apple has kind of disappointed me with the software situation on iPads. I have an iPad Pro that I use as a laptop, but the reality is that the processing power available is underused. It has a 120Hz screen, but websites can't render to the canvas at 120Hz. There is no CAD software (which is nice when you design something and head to your makerspace to actually manufacture it -- I just print plans out on paper, but it…
> I think Apple's problem here is that they don't want to cannibalize OS X sales with tablets…
This seems unlikely. Tablet sales are way more of their business than the Mac. My guess is they’d be happy to Tablets consume the Mac altogether.
> …by letting people type in code to solve their problems.
You must have missed the announcement that Swift Playgrounds will be able to build complete apps and submit them to the store.
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Every single company that sells things does this. You are talking about an Apple event and promo page where they are quite literally giving a sales pitch for their new products. That they (over)hype their own products is not only not notable or interesting, it's entirely expected. It is a bit bizarre that your comment, or variations of it, appears for every single Apple release. For those people so jaded and annoyed…
Apple also lies Steve Jobs with his distortion field used to say RISC was better than Intel right up until they switched to Intel, then the story switched. They acted like they invented the omnibox for safari browser… Also they used to tout the size of their phones as perfect, then unceremoniously eliminated that size for nearly a decade (until this year!) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AptLR1gS-Pg
> Steve Jobs with his distortion field used to say RISC was better than Intel right up until they switched to Intel, then the story switched.
He generally made specific claims which were true — for example, when they added AltiVec they talked about media processing and other SIMD-friendly tasks — and then let the press/fanboys generalize that. Towards the end they also started talking about things like battery life or software features when there simply wasn't a compelling comparison like that.
Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
#154What do people use devices like iPad mini for?
I use it for reading pdf's. Sometimes for gaming. Sometimes for kindle books, but prefer a kindle for that.
Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
And what will I be able to do with that performance bump? I use a tablet mostly for taking notes, email and looking at websites. I can’t see how the former can get any quicker. The latter is slow mostly because of the websites themselves. Will games or office apps get faster or have new possibilities?
Of course not. We all know that there have been no functional improvements to software enabled by processor speed increases since the 8081. Everything since then has been programmers slowly using up their "wait()" calls placed in code in the 70s to fake it.
"The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry."
— Henry Petroski
Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
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Especially weird (though understandable) because it's basically "Doesn't scan your device and send the information to a corporation and the government" when Android basically does that everywhere, all the time. But Android does it for profit, Apple does it "for the children."
Would you be down to write a blog post about how a "degoogled phone" still scans your data and sends it to Google? Let's say a Pixel 5 with CalyxOS? I didn't know thats the case. Tbh, I'd even love to see a current blog post on how much and what data a "semi-degoogled" random OEM phone with the shipped Android sends. Or maybe there is one that I don't know of, would love to see it.
You're the only one talking about a "degoogled phone."
Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
And what will I be able to do with that performance bump? I use a tablet mostly for taking notes, email and looking at websites. I can’t see how the former can get any quicker. The latter is slow mostly because of the websites themselves. Will games or office apps get faster or have new possibilities?
Apple has kind of disappointed me with the software situation on iPads. I have an iPad Pro that I use as a laptop, but the reality is that the processing power available is underused. It has a 120Hz screen, but websites can't render to the canvas at 120Hz. There is no CAD software (which is nice when you design something and head to your makerspace to actually manufacture it -- I just print plans out on paper, but it…
I completely agree with your point but just wanted to note that iSH is available on the App Store (and hasn't been booted out as of now by some miracle) and love it to bits.
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Their still having two connectors is even more annoying than I thought it would be. We have lots of iDevices from several generations and even brand new ones—but only some of them, though, significantly, all the iPhones—are still shipping with lightning, years after they should have gone to USB-C. Given how long we're able to keep these things around and in use, that means we'll be dealing with stupid lightning cable…
Not only do they have two connectors, they have two different Apple pencils too. Need to make sure you buy the right one.
Well, the first one was a mis-designed piece of crap, so I don't mind that as much, though keeping it in use on some newer models after v2 was released does suck.
(source for assertion about them being crap: I own one—the bad part's entirely the terrible charging/connector design, but that part's nearly parody-levels of bad)
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#160Everyone commenting about bezels being huge :-/ people, bezels are there so you can hold the tablet more comfortably.
Anyone who made extended usage of tablets with and without bezels can quickly figure this out. It is more ergonomic, it reduces accidental touching and screen occlusion.