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Post by gosub100 »

SlowTao wrote: post #556
steveBK123 wrote: post #459

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I’ve dabbled in a bunch of those. Kindle. Remarkable. Daylight. The problem is it’s always a great 3rd or 4th device. Not sure there’s a high margin high volume demand for it.

Things like Daylight could be really great if the software was more tailored to the device. And even then, you are right, I don't think it will ever be anything more than niche. It is the kind of product that if it absolutely struck a chord would be 10% of the market absolute tops. Nothing wrong with that though. It is good to be a part of stable but solid market rather than trying to dominate it and fail.

What would be awesome is to have a double screen device. OLED on the front, eink on the back. So you could operate in simple mode if you want or use the sharp screen for photos when needed.

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Post by carlosjobim »

gosub100 wrote: post #611
SlowTao wrote: post #556

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Things like Daylight could be really great if the software was more tailored to the device. And even then, you are right, I don't think it will ever be anything more than niche. It is the kind of product that if it absolutely struck a chord would be 10% of the market absolute tops. Nothing wrong with that though. It is good to be a part of stable but solid market rather than trying to dominate it and fail.

What would be awesome is to have a double screen device. OLED on the front, eink on the back. So you could operate in simple mode if you want or use the sharp screen for photos when needed.

I believe the manufacturer Sharp is working right now on displays which will have both modes in the same screen, so no need to flip your device around.

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Post by troupo »

SlowTao wrote: post #561
Fade_Dance wrote: post #305

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I agree about project titan/cars. That was a behemoth of a failed experiment experiment. As for vision pro though and I guess even to a little extent the car exploration, it's sort of "safe" and derivative conceptually. Steve's experiments were often seemingly directly at odds with profitability. Like, one day he may have looked at the extensive lineup with the "Pro Max" etc, and made the call to cut back down to one…

Yep, the fundamental design of the iMac hasn't changed much since the iMac G5 in 2004. Yes, it is thinner, a new material and more refined but it is still a box on a stand with a screen. They are either turbo sensible or doing silly things like Titan/Vision.

> Yes, it is thinner,

And this has been the only design style they have been going for for 15 years at least: it's now thinner. There are almost no other considerations.

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Post by hshshshshsh »

rewgs wrote: post #464
surgical_fire wrote: post #426

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Starving is worse. Try to find a job that is tolerable and devote your free time to things that make you happy - family, friends, hobbies, etc

You're both not wrong. What @surgical_fire is describing is the "minimum viable product" for a career. It's the thing that serves the basics on Maslow's Hierarchy. What @hshshshshsh is describing is anything past that. We briefly exist sandwiched between two eternities -- shouldn't we care about the quality of our time during the thing that takes up the largest quantity of our time? The problem is that, the issue tha…

You should consider doing standup comedy. That made me smile.

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Post by account42 »

croes wrote: post #117
ksec wrote: post #51

The problem isn't sending an Ad to Wallet. It is the fact that Apple openly attack Ads, condemns Ads, talk about privacy as fundamental human rights, and then have targeted Ads, in a place / software / services where no body expected it to appear. And not everybody has the Ad, so by HN / Reddit / Internet definition that Ad is targeted. The thing I used to like about Apple, even if you disagree with some of its decis…

They attack ads they are not getting paid for.

Similarly, they "solve" privacy problems by routing traffic through their services.

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Post by account42 »

FredPret wrote: post #398
komali2 wrote: post #274

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Google too. I wish the fact that every company enshittifies in the end would wake us all up to the fact that rampant unregulated capitalism just doesn't work before it's too late to make any changes at all.

It's rampant unregulated capitalism that feeds the whole lifecycle: - company started in garage - makes first sales - gets popular - gets investors - becomes huge , changing the world of computing - enshittifies - gets replaced by the next company that was started in a garage somewhere A good system is not one that preserves Apple or IBM or Xerox. A good system is one that allows these companies to come and go, becau…

A better system would be one where you never need to rely on one of only a handful corporations to talk to your friends. The way to achieve this is regulations that require interoperability - then companies have to compete on service rather than coasting on their locked in user base.

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Post by vinceguidry »

labster wrote: post #431
vinceguidry wrote: post #402

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The limiting factor to Chinese soft power development is its need to remain authoritarian. Folks will accept living under one if that's all they know. But if you didn't grow up with the brainwashing nobody will trust you and everything is transactional. You see Chinese attempts to exert political control over its diaspora and it never works as well as they would like. Where the West's soft power essentially comes fro…

I don’t know man, I would have believed this wholeheartedly ten years ago. But people are choosing true authoritarianism in droves. People just keep voting for Trump, Orban, Erdogan, and Le Pen. Trump is extremely transactional. All of which is great news for China, and a great victory for their ‘do nothing: win’ policy.

Orban just tried to ban the yearly Pride parade and inadvertently turned it into the largest protest against his rule ever. Trump barely took the election and may have even stolen it, if recent news is to be believed.

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Post by account42 »

JimDabell wrote: post #24
jb1991 wrote: post #4

Did they learn nothing from giving everyone a free U2 album that nobody wanted, and the backlash from that?

I think this is a lot worse than the U2 thing. Operating systems bundle free stuff all the time. Even the Windows 95 CD had a Weezer music video on it. The U2 album wasn’t spammy it didn’t interrupt people, it was in an appropriate place, and it was easily removed. Even if you didn’t want it, it’s reasonable to not consider it a problem. This was outright spammy. It was trying to sell people something. It was in a se…

> Even the Windows 95 CD had a Weezer music video on it.

Lol I had completely forgotten about that, thanks for reminding me. Going to have to find a copy with that lovely MPEG blocky quality.

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Post by account42 »

fwip wrote: post #187
earthtograndma wrote: post #152

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If I'm reading all this correctly, it sounds like Apple has a system that will automatically play unintended music at various times from the music library. The only way to prevent this is to completely wipe out the entire library. And the chief complaint is that there is an album in the library.

If I'm reading correctly, the bug is in the car's audio control system.

Most cars work this way so phone makers should design around that.
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