Eric_WVGG

lkrupp said:

You simply cannot use the words Google and security in the same sentence. it's anathema and it's a shame you don't understand that.

How am I to inteprete the fact that google has a relatively low security breach statistics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches )

How good is Google's know-how in security sector?

How much can we benefit from their knowledge and tools?

I think he's maybe conflating "security" with "privacy."

Google has one of the best records of FAANG companies for security tech, I think that's undeniable. But I wouldn't exactly trust them, either. 

My MSIE 5 story:

Back in 2001 I moved from SLC to Portland, OR. I moved without a job lined up, but it was still dot-com-boom and with four years experience under my belt, thought I would be a shoe-in at any graphic design firm.

This did not go well. I shopped around my resume — with a prominent link to my online portfolio — to every design firm in the city. Did not get a single call-back. My savings and my mood dwindled. Then 9/11 happened, the world went crazy, and I sank into a six-month long depressive funk.

Eventually got a job working on front end for a shipping company, and noticed that they had some Macs for testing ("we don't bother, nobody uses Macs"), and I decided to load up my portfolio site for fun. 

Crash-ola. Not just the browser — the OS, everything. Every single time. 

Turned out that there was a CSS bug in MSIE 5 that could trigger an OS crash. For months, I was handing out a URL to design firms (still majority Mac) that would not just crash their browser, but take out all their unsaved work with it. 

As soon as I had $400 to spare I bought a 400mhz Indigo iMac, which (once upgraded to OS X) I found to be more enjoyable to use than my DIY 1.2ghz speed demon PC, and that’s how I came to be yammering on an Apple fan site twenty years later…

Just pretending for a moment that they had the UI acumen and industrial design necessary to design the device, there's still the problem of the Apple S6 CPU. There's nothing else like it on the market. The best performing Qualcomm CPU in that watt range has nowhere close to the performance. Personally, I think this is why Google has more or less ceded the market… they literally can't make an equivalent wearable without hardware that they can't design and money can't buy.

tpurdy said:

Will it mess up my iPad Pro if I use this base with USB-C on both ends? Would be nice to keep it plugged in and use for both the laptop and iPad. 

Or the other way around, can I use the iPad charger safely on the new MBP?

1. Nope, that'll work great.
2. Sort of… as I understand it, if your laptop has an active draw of say 60 watts, and you have a 30 watt charger installed, then instead of charging, you'll be actively draining your battery (albeit more slowly than if the laptop were fully unplugged. This negative-charging of the battery could potentially be damaging.

It is safe, as far as I know of, to charge your laptop with the iPad charger if it is asleep or turned off. So if you were traveling and wanted to bring the lighter, smaller, charger, and was only charging the laptop while you were sleeping overnight, no problem. 

there’s one really unexpected drawback to the Mini 6 that i haven’t seen anyone write about yet: loads of websites and apps use 768px wide (“screen points”) as the starting point for tablet UIs. The Mini 6 is 744 wide. 

Websites like Digg.com are rendering with this awful stretched out phone view. The Overcast pocast player is missing the sidebar, again looking like an oversized phone app instead of a tablet app. 

i am very worried that developer ambivalence is going to lead to a crummy experience for the future on the ipad mini. 

I for one am relieved and thrilled that the folks who have been bitching about the SD slot for the past five years still have something to keep themselves occupied with.

Hobbies are really good for mental health.

I'm also on the 12 Mini.

If there's no 14 Mini, then I'll be in the awkward position of buying a new 13 Mini when the 14's come out this fall. If this is the phone I'm gonna be using for the next five years or so, I'm at least gonna need the model with the better battery.

future man said:

I think that the progression of time has passed the Kindle device as an all-in-one iPad device offers so much greater device utilization!

You can throw a kindle in a beach bag, get sand all over it, no worries.

Shove it in your jeans pocket, don't worry about sitting on it, not even a huge deal if it gets stolen

I am definitely an iPad reader as well, but I can't deny that the Kindle has a strong niche.

Every Macbook Pro design has had roughly four major releases (a fifth here and there for an extremely minor spec bump) since the 2004 Aluminum G4. Usually these design changes coincide with a major screen change (retina, micro-LED + notch).