svanstrom

avon b7 said:

YouTube is my go-to option for many things.

In my case, at least so far, ads are not a problem. 

It enjoys a dominant position for providing what users and content creators have wanted. That swings both ways though and alternatives will be ready to step in if over monetization becomes a deterrent to enjoying content. That applies to the content creators too. 

YouTube is a business and restricting PiP might be a purely business decision. iOS users still have access to the content. It's not a big deal. 

As Apple develops its streaming knowhow it could even enter direct competition with YouTube. 

Competition is good and with the GMS/Huawei situation I am already testing the Google free world (free of GMS requirements). The only way competition can take a hold is if users give it a chance. 

Also, Apple could possibly choose to make any video content playable in a floating window if it needed (via iOS updates). 

Competition is good, he said… after competition just made a third party service go out of their way to cripple a native, universal, feature of a major OS.

rob53 said:

22july2013 said:

Maybe the future of all apps is through a browser, especially if HTML starts supporting app-like user interfaces. And since streaming apps already exist, then maybe that's our window to the future of desktop apps, not just games. That may be the approach for big companies that dislike Apple's App Store interface. I suspect Google and Facebook are discussing whether they can bypass the App Store by using streaming for all their apps for Apple Silicon. Just a guess.

Disagree. I’d rather have local apps that have been security tested than having to rely on the browser to protect everything. I don’t trust websites and don’t trust running their apps. Already seen abuse on medical and commercial sites that just don’t want to run on Mac browsers. 

The "abuse" you see in browsers is often also in apps, just hidden from your eyes, and enough part of the functionality of the app that it easily passes through the security tests.

So… yeah… I can just imagine the awkward "we've realised that people don't care about us"-meeting where some executive came up with the "can't we get some of those influencers the kids like nowadays?"-idea. 

Because Epic and Samsung are down with the kids, and know what's hip.

dewme said:

mike54 said:

With all that fancy circuitry in there, I guess there is no room for just a simple on/off switch.

I'm hoping for a much cheaper version, that sounds decent, with the same level of ANC, H1 chip, but without the spacial computational audio stuff, no gyro's  and I don't even need a sensor in each ear cup to pause sound.

I was thinking the same thing about the on/off switch, but then I started to look at Apple's other headphones and realized that many or most of them don't have an on/off switch.

Not just headphones…

Unless we're talking a very rare reboot I don't even (manually) put anything into sleep mode; I simply just use my stuff, and put it down when I stop using it. At most I in a public environment lock the screen of my MBP (by moving the cursor to a hot corner) when leaving it.

People for some reason just have this irrational fear that headphones with a 20h battery will stop working midday if they don't fiddle with a switch when putting it down; and it's just silly. It's like fearing not having ended a modern smartphone phone call simply because you didn't physically put down a receiver on a physical rotary phone.

radarthekat said:

lkrupp said:

svanstrom said:

Truth is that Apple would be f*cked if they straight up just left China; and if they don't leave China they will keep on finding human rights issues.

So what to do?

At what point will we consumers walk away from Apple if they don't move more of their production out of China?

Aaaaand… even if they move their production out of China, does that really help if the factories are still owned by Chinese companies. (Like with the AirPods Max: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/12/10/apple-airpods-max-are-made-in-vietnam-but-still-by-chinese-firms.)

So what other manufacturers are you willing to walk away from in addition to Apple? Nearly all manufacturing worldwide happens in China now. We were in the market for a new vacuum cleaner and I read the list of American brands, almost all of which have moved or are going to move manufacturing to China.

So don't you think you’re being hypocritical by singling out Apple for abandonment? As I said in another post, neither you nor anyone else is going to walk away from Apple because you have no other manufacturer to go to. All you are going to do is cluck your tongue, shake your head, and continue to buy Chinese manufactured goods.

Oh and the vast majority of prescription drugs are manufactured in and imported from China. Will you be walking away from your life-sustaining drug too?

You post brings up a good point.  A lot of folks seem to be castigating Apple not because they aren’t doing what they feel is enough, because if that were the case they have to be shouting even louder about the many many companies manufacturing in China that are doing far less.  They are castigating Apple for setting a very high bar and not quite clearing it.  While others just say nothing and shamelessly walk under the bar.  

For me this is like when I for ethical reasons started to go vegan…

I had no problems with that I for a number of reasons in all kinds of situations had to deviate from a vegan lifestyle, sometimes just because I was really craving a meat based product that I loved and had to keep my mood up for an event; or I bought the occasional piece of clothing with a leather detail (that I just removed and threw away).

Today I don't compromise when it comes to most things; but I sometimes buy chocolate with a bit of milk in it, and occasionally I give in and have a pizza with regular cheese. So still not completely vegan.

Is it perfect (as compared with what I would prefer)? Hell no! Is it better than if I hadn't tried at all? YES!!

Phasing out Chinese made products from my life won't be easy, and I'm lazily deep into the Apple ecosystem; but if I don't start with the mentality of me (indirectly) supporting these things being wrong, then I will never change. So that's how I approach things. And if I'm choosing between two almost equal products I will go with the one most in line with my moral compass. So hopefully I will in the future see more and more locally produced alternatives to Apple's products.

But… yeah… if a company tries to gain the PR advantage of branding themselves as being "better" in some aspect, then I think they should be judged harsher by the public if they don't live up to their self-assigned standards. They can't do things like have a zero tolerance of underage workers, and then keep funnelling money into suppliers that repeatedly get caught having underage workers. Either straight up be a greedy ass and just refer to local labor laws and guidelines, or actually enforce what you say you stand for.

ITGUYINSD said:

Common sense not withstanding, it seems that those who originate or post themselves participating in these deadly "games" and "Challenges" should be held accountable for anyone that dies from such games -- Accomplices.  Why are these even allowed to be put on the internet?  Videos of people practically suffocating themselves for others to duplicate?

So you want to do things like hold 12yos accountable for the death of a 10yo that copied what they did?!

What you did there was nothing but a type of victim-blaming. You completely ignored the often old men making millions upon millions in profit, and headed straight to wanting to punish children for other children copying them.

And then you went on to some generalised "shouldn't be allowed"-thing.

So your shown priorities went:
1. Blame children.
2. This isn't good.
3. *nothing*

Don't you think that if you talk about holding anyone "accountable" (a word you even used) it should be the ones profiting from all this? The ones that actually could do something, but don't want to use their profit to actually make the product safe? Don't you think that that should have been the first thing I read in your comment?

james_hays said:

I had stopped using Facebook over their privacy policy. Now that I have a choice, maybe I’ll start using it again. Probably not, though. 

They've kept using you, though; which at its core is what fb is complaining about right now, that they will be forced to ask for permission rather than just straight up collect data about people without people having a say about it.

A bit… wonky.

The functional design is quite good, though; so I hope these will be the bar when other make (vegan) copies.