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Post by jasonlotito »

t8sr wrote: post #248

I have never said and rarely thought this before, but I really hope the person who came up with / approved this idea got fired for it. It’s rare that you see something so unbelievably stupid and destructive of the shared pool of trust, which Apple spent 30 years building, only for one self-interested PM to blow a chunk of it up for no gain. If the person who came up with this reads this site, I hope they see this com…

Tim Cook is in charge. This wasn't decided in a bubble. A single person can't do this. It takes a lot of people to do this. A culture that allows this. This wasn't a mistake. It wasn't malicious. It wasn't even the first time.

Tim Cook did this, and anyone that can't put the blame on him is lying to themselves.

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Post by fireflash38 »

roody15 wrote: post #335
pas wrote: post #324

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> resistance to growth at all costs is futile humans want to improve their (material) conditions, it's pretty much the thing we do at this point (that other species don't really) the issue that was a bit of an inconvenience, a mere side-effect of our culture is nowadays burning down the whole shebang we overvalue short-term gains (thus we have serious agent-principal and integrity issues), we have a laundry list of c…

“ we overvalue short-term gains (thus we have serious agent-principal and integrity issues),” Agree and would even make the argument that Chinas rise in some is a response to short term with patience. China is willing to move mountains and allow western corporations 8-10 years of ridiculous low labor costs and promote incredible profits. They then learn the process and the tech and now companies like TP-link, Huawei,…

Do you think that strategy is from their rulers? And do you think that when the rulers die, that strategy will live on?

I think it will pass like every other empire/business: ruined by future generations who did not toil for it and who will trade it for short term gain.

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Post by lapcat »

diskzero wrote: post #286
keiferski wrote: post #40

Apple without Ive and Jobs increasingly has a taste problem. Everything from their ads to things like this are just in really poor taste, and aren’t something that they would have done 15 years ago because they would have thought it was beneath their brand. I like Apple, so I’m really hoping they bring on someone to solve this. Otherwise they’re on track to be the same as every other tasteless tech company. More on t…

Apple employee pre, during and post Steve. I was in a lot of meetings with VPs whose tasteless suggestions were shut down immediately with the usual Steve critiques attached. My recollection is that Eddy Cue got the most critiques, Phil Schiller the least and the rest were in between. Eddy would push back and still get shut down. When Steve left the last time, it was knives out between these guys with Scott Forstall…

> I was in a lot of meetings with VPs whose tasteless suggestions were shut down immediately with the usual Steve critiques attached.

Was it common for lower-level employees to take part in C-suite meetings and arguments?

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Post by roughly »

yomismoaqui wrote: post #333
keiferski wrote: post #40

Apple without Ive and Jobs increasingly has a taste problem. Everything from their ads to things like this are just in really poor taste, and aren’t something that they would have done 15 years ago because they would have thought it was beneath their brand. I like Apple, so I’m really hoping they bring on someone to solve this. Otherwise they’re on track to be the same as every other tasteless tech company. More on t…

> Apple without Ive and Jobs increasingly has a taste problem Sorry, having seen the sappy photo of Ive & Altman I cannot trust his taste. https://in.mashable.com/tech/94502/sam-altman-taps-worlds-gr...

Nor should you. OP should’ve said Apple without Jobs - Ive had artistic taste, but not product or human taste.

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Post by ta1243 »

Fade_Dance wrote: post #300
ta1243 wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure why I'd want USB-C and then have to spend a fortune to replace all my existing charger leads with the highly unreliable USB-C ecosystem.

Frankly, you might as well. It's an inevitability that you'll have to do that. If you're talking about charging a phone, the usb-c ecosystem is literally never going to give you even a single instance of annoyance. If you're talking about lightning and laptop sized power delivery then, yes the cables need better labeling, but all of those cables are going to work for charging a phone.

I have several USB-C chargers and cables, some of which work to charge my headphones, some of which don't.

How they managed to convert the simplicity and reliability of 20 years of USB-A into this mess is anyones guess.

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Post by somenameforme »

ceejayoz wrote: post #290
AlecSchueler wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do either of those facts point to increases in iPhone sales?

The second source’s first paragraph says “with total sales expected to surpass previous records” for 2023, at least.

Sales are accounted for in $ terms, not units sold. It's the same thing with Hollywood. You might think movies are more popular than ever thanks to record breaking sales (pre-COVID at least). In reality, we reached peak movie, in terms of tickets sold, in 2002! [1]

Back to iPhones, this [2] page shows their stats by units sold (about half way down). iPhone is essentially treading water if those data are correct (with a peak in 2015 overcome twice since, but by ~1% each time), but I strongly suspect that that's showing units shipped and not units sold, as iPhone sales declining has been universally reported.

[1] - https://www.the-numbers.com/market/

[2] - https://www.demandsage.com/iphone-user-statistics/

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Post by vinceguidry »

roody15 wrote: post #335
pas wrote: post #324

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> resistance to growth at all costs is futile humans want to improve their (material) conditions, it's pretty much the thing we do at this point (that other species don't really) the issue that was a bit of an inconvenience, a mere side-effect of our culture is nowadays burning down the whole shebang we overvalue short-term gains (thus we have serious agent-principal and integrity issues), we have a laundry list of c…

“ we overvalue short-term gains (thus we have serious agent-principal and integrity issues),” Agree and would even make the argument that Chinas rise in some is a response to short term with patience. China is willing to move mountains and allow western corporations 8-10 years of ridiculous low labor costs and promote incredible profits. They then learn the process and the tech and now companies like TP-link, Huawei,…

> China will patiently build the largest Navy and infiltrate the political landscape of Taiwan until they just peacefully transfer back into the fold.

I don't think this would work, they can't manipulate a sophisticated Western political system without actual sovereignty over the land. Western soft power is just that good.

If China had a playbook that could accomplish that, they would have used that instead for assimilating Hong Kong instead of what they ended up doing. They tried, but HK resisted Chinese influence HARD. So China stopped offering carrots and brought out the stick.

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Post by surgical_fire »

hshshshshsh wrote: post #56
keiferski wrote: post #40

Apple without Ive and Jobs increasingly has a taste problem. Everything from their ads to things like this are just in really poor taste, and aren’t something that they would have done 15 years ago because they would have thought it was beneath their brand. I like Apple, so I’m really hoping they bring on someone to solve this. Otherwise they’re on track to be the same as every other tasteless tech company. More on t…

Yeah. One thing I learned working at a Big company is that companies are full of parasites who are there to get their promotion or salary increase and don't give a cat shit about users or mission or values. Honestly it sucked any joy out of my life but I am stuck here because of visa.

You described any regular workplace.

You are not supposed to find joy in work. Work is something that you do so you can afford to find joy elsewhere.

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Post by mzajc »

drdaeman wrote: post #309
mzajc wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Applications can interact with notifications on the user's behalf via the accessibility permission - I do this with KDE Connect. I don't know what the limitations are.

On iOS? Last time I've checked, kdeconnect-ios was unable to read any third-party notifications, not to mention doing anything to them or modifying their text or appearance in any way. Project readme still says "Notification syncing doesn't work because iOS applications can't access notifications of other apps" ( https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-ios?tab=readme-ov-file#kno... ) so I think it's still a thing.

On Android, I forgot to mention.

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Post by ta1243 »

Spunkie wrote: post #303
ta1243 wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure why I'd want USB-C and then have to spend a fortune to replace all my existing charger leads with the highly unreliable USB-C ecosystem.

With USB-C you don't actually have to pay the apple tax on cords or chargers, so in no way should it "cost a fortune".

I was in my local store on Friday looking for a new torch and had a quick browse of the chargers. USB-C cables were more expensive than lightning.
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