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If that's .93% over last year, then it's negative after inflation. So there may not be an expectation of exponential growth forever, but literally declining revenue vs inflation is a different conversation.
Are you suggesting that we had 7% inflation last year, or am I misunderstanding you?
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> For me, Google will always be the company that high-jacked scrolling to use for zoom. That still trips me up every time I have to use Google Maps or any other mapping service that copied them on a laptop with a trackpad. So you use that for vertical scrolling. How would you do horizontal scrolling on a typical mouse then? The default of holding left click and dragging the map across to move the viewport is far more…
I don't have an opinion on how this should be done on a "typical mouse", I haven't used a "typical mouse" for about 15 years. Unless you have some supporting evidence that clicking and dragging is more intuitive I would suggest that it's not and that you're just used to doing it because you use a mouse and not a trackpad. Two finger scrolling is used everywhere else on laptops. It handles horizontal scrolling perfect…
EDIT: I guess Google Chrome could go all `el.addEventListener('-webkit-pinch-zoom')` on us.
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True. But the iPod and iPhone were functionally very distinct from the Mac. The Apple Watch seems more like a convenient extension that eliminates the need to pull your phone out, but not much more than that, at least in its first few years of existence. Apple is clearly gearing it up to replace the iPhone, but that trajectory has been evolutionary, not revolutionary.
The iPhone was clearly not functionally distinct from a Mac laptop. There was nothing an iPhone could do that a Mac couldn’t do better, except for fit in your pocket.
They've been coasting since then. Difference sizes of the same product. The watch was about as far as they've wandered out of their comfort zone.
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Devs at our company are starting to flee to Dell/Linux. Nice keyboards, screens and 64GB of RAM.
It's bizarre to me that Apple has never understood that computers are a highly recommended product. The reason that Apple laptops are popular is that the tech crowd is highly loyal and recommends macs to all their friends, parents, grandparents, when asked. And the tech crowd provides every hardware forum in existence with lots and lots of free Apple advertising. It was never about Apple having better marketing. It w…
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There was no iPhone until there was, no iPad until there was - I don't see the big deal here.
That was when Steve Jobs was still there, and he isn't coming back.
No surprise. No innovation. All stopped around 2011. They've been coasting since then. Difference sizes of the same product. The watch was about as far as they've wandered out of their comfort zone.
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fucking cloud computing they should provide a cloud on which you can use Metal compute
How does that dovetail with Apple’s strengths as a vertically integrated consumer electronics company? What would they bring to the table that would help them compete with the other cloud players? Amazon had first mover advantage and Microsoft had a large enterprise base to draw from and an inside and outside enterprise sales force. Apple has none of that. Google is struggling in the cloud with large companies partia…
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They didn't remove it, at least not functionally. There's still an ESC, it's just on the Touch Bar now.
That's not an escape key . Please don't apologize for this. I use vim and switch between a butterfly/touchbar Mac (work machine) and a Thinkpad (personal machine). Using the Mac keyboard has actually negatively impacted my typing speed when I use other systems! I remapped my vim keybindings, and now my muscle memory has atrophied. This dumb machine has actually made me a worse typist. I am so frustrated.
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So what “category defining” successful electronic product has any company introduced since 2008?
The Echo.