Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week

Post by Retric » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 2:13 PM UTC

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FYI: Apple’s pinch to zoom lets you rotate and drag not just zoom. This kind of subtle differences matter quite a bit from a UI perspective. You could have a punch to zoom system where a pinching motion always resulted in fixed changes to zoom levels. You could describe both implementations as “pint to zoom” but one is a lot more user friendly than the other.

I can't rotate web pages in Safari, there's plenty of situations in Apple's first party apps in iOS where pinch to zoom is purely a zoom thing. In any case, the rotation thing is also just pretty rudimentary trigonometry/linear algebra.

Post by throwaway290 » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 2:18 PM UTC

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Why is it scummy? Hiring people to produce goods or services and compensating them based on the value of their knowledge and abilities is sort of the entire value pitch of capitalism, and it's unlikely anyone would have moved over to Apple if the compensation wasn't more worthwhile to them.

It's like meeting a friend's girlfriend and then asking her out later behind your back.

Post by rickdeckard » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 2:43 PM UTC

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The point is not that employees left. The point is that Apple had Masimo describe their tech, the issues and methods they developed to solve them, and Apple walked away to rebuild Masimo's solution. They succeeded, but unfortunately for them the methods were already patented IP of Masimo, that company which explained this whole field to Apple in first place. The fact that Apple hired Masimo staff to do so is just the…

It should be noted that we're taking Masimo at their word here -- scummy as described, yes, but for all we know things may have actually gone another way: they may have tried to hold Apple over a barrel, may not have actually revealed all that much, etc.

Post by nradov » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 3:03 PM UTC

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Or leasing a new Mercedes every few months so that you never have to have a license plate and register your car like the rest of us plebians...and can illegally park in handicapped parking spaces because cops can't issue a ticket to a vehicle with no plate.

Why on earth can you drive without a registration of the vehicle. This simply indicates the law is broken. Still scummy behaviour but fixing the law so you have to get a plate before driving would solve this (like it's in many places of the world).

Post by DiggyJohnson » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 3:19 PM UTC

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The researcher individuals will be paid their salary and their jobs' existence depends solely on ability of the shareholders to protect their investment.

Exactly, and that's my point! The individual who does the invention gets a normal salary which they would've gotten anywhere doing anything (or, at best, a slightly higher salary than others doing similar work), and the people who reap the reward are the shareholders and executives.