Soli

I'm excited for what this could be even if I never felt the series were compelling novels.

MickeyKelly said:

There is no "southern" Ireland. Troy Studios is not in "southern" Ireland. Troy Studios is located in Limerick, Ireland.  That other place is part of England.

Note that they use a lower-case 's' for southern. It's not a proper name like for Northern Ireland. You can have a southern West Virginia, an eastern South Africa or countless other terms relating to a location. This is done on purpose, not by Occident, you just have to re-Orient your thinking. Granted, saying that Limerick is in southern Ireland isn't as geographically correct as it could be. If this was Cork would you not agree that it's located in southern Ireland?

philboogie said:

At the time I preferred the iPad instead of firing up my desktop or laptop. Because the iPad was 'instant-on'. But with todays laptops with SSD instead of a slow HDD I don't use the iPad anymore. A MacBook is so much easier because I don't have to hold it up. That could be a reason for the declining or should I say plateauing in iPad sales.

I'd argue that the iPad's sales plateaued so quickly because it was such an amazing device out of the gate. Not only did it grow faster than either the iPod and iPhone upon launch, it's a device that doesn't need replacing as often as other primary computing devices. I know countless people whose primary PC device is the iPad, will be the iPad for the foreseeable future, but also who don't get a new iPad very often because of how long it lasts.

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coolfactor said:

Meanwhile Amazon and Microsoft are up.

Why wouldn't they be?  Amazon deliver things, which people need a lot right now, and Microsoft provide digital services which people need a lot right now.  Apple are far more exposed because of their supply chain in a hard hit area and their premium market which will be hit more by the almost inevitable recession/depression.

FWIW, which is not much, Microsoft is the last remaining US member of the $1T club.

And that's only because people are more confident about MS because of their long history of dealing with countless viruses.   

TravisV said:

Jus one huge problem that Find My has and I discovered yesterday.

If you have your Mac hardwired (and don't use WiFi) and have secondary router hardwired to your ISP router that you have the rest of your peripherals wifi'ed intyo the secondary your Find My doesn't work (at least on my configuration).

I discovered that limitation a long time ago with Find My but you can still enable WiFi when using Ethernet as your primary network interface.

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bigtds said:

I'll stick with cash and credit cards.

ApplePay is more secure than a credit card and a hell of a lot more convenient.

I use Apple Pay wherever I can but I’ve never had an issue wit my credit card. 

In the 45+ years I've used credit cards I don't ever recall losing even a penny to fraud on one.

Now has my card provider? Most likely. My AMEX has been replaced at least three times I can recall due to some online compromised transaction (not ever from a brick and mortar at least yet) but even if the provider never saw a loss do you think their rates charged to you would be any less? Extremely doubtful. They might get a bit richer, maybe or maybe not even give bigger executive bonuses, but the savings won't be passed on to you.

 These "secure payment" systems aren't primarily designed to benefit the consumer AFAICT. Anything in that regard is simply a byproduct.

That's not accurate You can even look at buying and trading stocks to see that modern technology has benefited the consumer. First we had low cost trades that didn't require a physical broker to make, and now free trades are commonplace You can use any number of technologies as examples, but if using an *Pay system means that theft is reduced considerably, then companies will leverage that savings to help increase consumer interest to then increase company revenue and profits.

So have the CC providers lowered any of your rates because you use Apple Pay? You're saving them money so they should.

Companies will nearly always attempt to maximize profits, and only when nudged or prodded by competitors "pass some of the savings on to you". 

Yes! The Apple Card directly rewards users with additional cash back for using Apple Pay.

Then there will be benefits you’re not seeing like newer card offerings being more competitive with interest rates or offering additional services because loss from theft is decreasing, but chances are we’re not at a threshold to where that’s moving the needle enough to make a difference with all their transactions.

Every card I carry rewards me. For example Amazon Visa rewards me for using their card to shop on Amazon. It's not because the transaction is more secure if I use it.  Apple's card is not unique in that regard. 

And why do you think they do that? Your answer should be that they offer incentives to customers to use their cards which in turn benefits their bottom line, but that's oddly not what you believe since you stated, "They might get a bit richer, maybe or maybe not even give bigger executive bonuses, but the savings won't be passed on to you."

As shown, savings are passed onto consumers in a free market. If technology creates a larger amount to savings there is a void that will get filled by companies exploiting that reduced cost. Apple Card is simply the first to take advantage of it, but others will follow.

It's like when people complain about how much a MBP costs, yet even without accounting for inflation the cost was much higher in decades past for something much worse in every regard. I really can't believe that your defense is that technology doesn't benefit consumers when everything points to the contrary.

LOL... We're not discussing technology Soli, much as you might prefer to.

Of course we're talking about technology. Not only is modern technology and how we use technology in society making *Pay systems possible, it's backed by technologies that allow instant banking possible, which itself is built on markets, institutions, gov't backed currencies, and the even the notion of currency itself is a technology.

Even within banks I use costs have shifted drastically From being limited to the number of times per month and charged to see a teller over an ATM to online brokerage firms having lower and now often free stock trades. These saving are definitely being passed onto me because it would leave too much money on the table to not compete when technology gives them a new revenue path.

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Phobos7 said:

True Depth was the better choice.

Truedepth isn't really needed for things like measuring the depth of a room, so why add (probably considerable) cost to something that doesn't need a finely-detailed 3D map? Tables and walls and furniture just aren't as complex as faces. Take a look at the Apple Maps "look around" to see a demonstration of more complex LiDAR.

So he's correct. If Truedepth is indeed better than we can be sure it will be added to later models as it compliments AR.

Maybe not. TrueDepth might be better for details when looking at a predisposed object that it's expecting to verify with a map and at a close, predetermined range expectation (well within an arm's length), compared to another use of lidar* that is designed for mapping countless objects in significantly larger area (a room). Kind of like having a macro lens for taking a picture of a mountain range and then arguing that that macro lens is better because it can get higher detail of a specific object.


* I keep seeing LiDAR spelled this way. Just stick with lidar like we have for radar, laser and the uncommon maser (even though it predates laser and follows its pattern).

Probably because the lower case "i" has been all the rage since the early 2000s. I still cringe when I see knockoffs use it though.

It's not an Apple thing. It's because the 'i' isn't it's own word, but part of the word light, just as you could've once found RaDAR as it uses the 'a' from the word Radio along with d(etection) a(nd) r(anging), for both acronyms.

I'm still unsure what's stopping Apple from making their lidar system more accurate or Truedepth have wider range.

Why are you assuming Apple is "stopping"? Clearly their years of work with lidar is being applied to devics to make them better, faster, and more accurate with every iteration. Because they didn't call it TrueDepth and it doesn't have the exact same feature set as lidar being used with other sensors for a very specific use case on the front of the camera? You don't want the system on the back to work for Face ID and you don't want Face ID to map a room. That should be clear.

Truck Access
Unlock the trunk only

Looks like a typo when paired with the other options. Seems dubious to me.

spice-boy said:

oh boy, the adults have left the space ship. 

No. This is a patent. This is nothing more than a patent and you shouldn't look at this as anything else. However, if you really think there are no longer any "adults" at Apple then your path forward seems clear. I, personally, can see a lot of application for a display that be contoured around and over severe curves.

ElCapitan said:

Some people here have the same type of reaction the Chinese had with the COVID-19 outbreak; ban, block, suppress and eradicate any criticism or discussion of missing functionality, performance or interoperability experienced for the holy Apple products. 

Fact is, Apple have largely forgotten there is something called Enterprise or even small business out there, and excluded them from their testing and use cases. Unless it fits precisely in their shrinking and increasingly locked down ecosystem, shut it or cut it out. 

1) You really think Apple's ecosystem is shrinking? A year ago it was reported that Apple's installed based for iPhone had tipped 1.4 billion. You really don't think that has grown since then?

• https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/apple-reports-first-quarter-results/

2) It's foolish to claim that "Apple have largely forgotten there is something called Enterprise" when they're (usually) the world's most valuable company making a 1/4 trillion dollars a year and employing 137,000 people. I don't see how any of that is possible without using enterprise-level applications for their day-to-day business. If you honestly believe that Apple's data centers are just Mac minis or Mac pros you should google their data center efforts. They also rent virtual space from various vendors, like AWS and Azure.

Or, perhaps you didn't actually mean that "Apple have largely forgotten there is something called Enterprise" and actually meant that you're upset that Apple focuses on  designing products for the consumer market, not for the enterprise market. You have every right to be upset by that, but you might as well get upset with Ruth Chris's Steak House for not having a low-cost fast-food option with a drive-thru or with any number of businesses for choosing to focus their efforts on a particular business model.