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iPhone 11 -- hands on and first impressions
I did the maths, it's pretty much the weak AUD vs USD.... bad timing for the keynote but there you go.Jordanf1 said:All I can say is 2500 Aud for the 11 pro max is outrageous cost
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Portrait mode's 'bokeh' was a risky and massive quest for perfection
I remember spending waaay too much time on my iPhone 4s in iPhoto (remember that?) manually painting masks around people to achieve the same effect. Amazing you can do it now instantaneously.
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Google to ban Adobe Flash-based display ads, go 100% HTML5
vagrant said:
I work at Google.cali said:Whis is Giggle doing this?!!!?!?!?
For years fandroids have been telling us it's a special feature that Apple's hardware/software is too weak to handle!!!!!!!!1
Wow. Just wow. I had heard about the Reality Distortion Field, but I never really believed it until now. Do you guys ever read the rest of the Internet, or do you just stay on this site and jerk each other off?
1) Google hates Flash and has been working to destroy it for at least as long as Apple has, if not longer. Google doesn't own the entire eco-system, like Apple does, and can't make such just universal edicts as Apple can, or as quickly.
2) The reason Jobs cut Flash was not because Flash is ugly and has security holes. Jobs cut Flash because Adobe, which got it's start from Apple, was only focusing on the Windows version of Flash and the other versions of Flash were crap.
3) This is not the first action Google has taken against Flash. The iSheep are acting like Google just woke up this morning and suddenly saw the light. Google has been hacking away at Flash for as long as Apple has. Flash makes it much harder to index the contents of the Internet and Google has forever been pushing HTML5 over Flash. Google is just not willing to suddenly take the decision making away from its users. Apple is. And there are pros and cons to both approaches.
4) Google publicly bought the Android company and set out to get into the mobile phone business long before Apple announced the iPhone and long before Eric Schmidt was on the Apple board. Apple knew that Google was working on a phone long before Google knew that Apple was working on one. The first Android phone was announced shortly after the first iPhone. Saying that Android copied Apple because it was released a few months later is as ridiculous as saying that Apple copied the LG Prada because it was released the year before.
There's nothing in the iPhone that hadn't already been done before on some other phone. The brilliant thing that Jobs did was line up all the parts manufacturers and make the phone that people had been asking for, rather than taking the safe route like the moron MBAs at mobile hardware companies. I bought the first iPhone and I loved it. Not because, "OMG I never imagined a phone could be like this!" but because, "Finally someone manufactured the phone we have all been asking for!"
5) No one ever said that Apple hardware/software was too weak to handle Flash. The Flash player for OX S and IOS just sucks because it was poorly written by Adobe. More than half of the engineers at Google use Apple product and love them.
6) The only people who like Flash are the people who write apps in it.
Wow. I mean wow. You people really need to get out to the rest of the Internet more often and learn something.Well actually...
1) Google loved Flash because it was good for ads.
2) Jobs cut Flash because it wasn’t designed for touch/multitouch and it would be silly to rely on the Flash feature set to define what Apple’s next-gen device could do. Also the hardware inside iPhone was designed to hardware decode h.264 video. Flash video would chew up battery, which aside from security affected Macs too, laptops especially.
3) Google has kept flash in action as long as possible in their ad landscape alongside your ‘hacking away at Flash’ which brings to mind their attempt to rule the video codec universe with the patent infringing webm inside of HTML5.
4) Apple was working on their new breakthrough device long before Google acquired Android.
There were many many things in the iPhone never before done. High-res touch sensor, highly accurate accelerometer, ambient light sensor, mated to software to create multitouch, and a new GUI for very intuitive to control with inertial touch scrolling and adaptive software keyboard, auto switching wifi networks… just to name a few.
5) It was a big selling point of rival mobile devices that they could run Flash.
6) There was so much Flash out there. Government websites relied on it etc, etc. The point people used to pick up on in regards to iOS was Steve promised the full internet… but Flash wasn’t a good future technology. The writing was on the wall - not many knew that back then.
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NYC subway commuters get creative rescuing AirPods dropped on tracks
CloudTalkin said:
C'mon man. Give the persecution complex a rest for at least one thread. Sweet Jeebus.lkrupp said:Another huge failure for Apple. So where are the Samsung ads making fun of AirPod users?I’ve been reading AI everyday for over 10 years - articles and forums, and I have to say Lkrupp is easily my favourite poster and is one of the reasons I enjoy reading the forums, often with a smile on my face. There is no way he deserves the previous comments in this thread. Lkrupp’s comments are valid and you have to understand AI reports on every Apple related article that has gained traction around the tech and mainstream media world - these frequently include a slice of anti-apple bias. This article begins with transit service employees and the WSJ explaining AirPods are falling out in droves and then ends with an analyst predicting increased sales because of the fact… his {lighthearted} evidence…he’s lost 10 pairs and a charging case! Lkrupp has a right to point out that a report gaining traction is showing how ‘bad’ the design of AirPods is. Others might take it as AirPods are winning. I reckon Lkrupp is mentalising the average Joe and Jill reading on their news feed contemplating a wireless bud purchase.
