StationGrey

I find the concept of putting a man that probably can't even spell his own name in charge of these things to be totally baffling.

His stupidity is breathtaking.

I wouldn't buy a car unless it has wireless CarPlay. I actually own a 2011 car that I love, and recently spent £1000 having CarPlay fitted.

I have this discussion regularly with a Tesla-owning friend, and he argues that Tesla provide all the apps you could need instead. And that would be absolutely fine, except of course they don't.

'How do I play my music on Deezer?' I ask.

'Oh. Well it has Spotify.'

'Well I have Deezer.'

'Can't you change music providers to match Elon Musk's whims?'

'No. But I also listen to audiobooks. I assume the Audible app is good?'

'Ah. It doesn't have that either. All you need to do in either case is just buy a phone mount that sticks to the windscreen, pair your phone with Bluetooth and generally pretend it's 2009.'

Ah, Tesla. The least up-to-date tech in any car available today.

With incompetent narcissistic billionaires in charge, everyone suffers apart from them.

Who could possibly have foreseen that happening?

fastasleep said:

StationGrey said:

So... there won't be a 27" iMac at all?? 

I was wondering about that — I think they killed it in favor of the Studio.

I'm not 100% sure what I feel about that. I've had 27" iMacs for the last, er, *counts fingers*, 10 or so years and was waiting for the new one.

Except of course this makes no sense whatsoever as all phone lenses are already 'wide open' only, ie. they already use the least depth of field available to them.

The ability to reduce the aperture would minimise even further the 'creamy bokeh' effect, which is already all but non-existent on tiny phone lenses/sensors anyway.

The only possible benefit would be a very small potential increase in image quality on a sunny day when you *didn't* want to have that nice effect, perhaps for a landscape. It's marginal though.

Cool_Bananas said:

Other countries have tariffs on us, but we don't have any on them..

Yes, that is the lie you've been fed. In reality, all countries have tariffs, including the US. And the US's have usually been much higher than other country's. Even before last week, the weighted average tariffs that the US imposed on China were 3.7 TIMES what China charged. And for the UK is was a mere 2.5 TIMES. So anyone that tells you that the US didn't charge them, or that they charged less, or that anyone other than the US was being 'unfair' was either grossly misinformed or, in almost every case, lying through their teeth. Beware of bright orange compulsive liars pretending not to lie to you.

Man's a dick.

timpetus said:

Professional photographer here, chiming in to say StationGrey is correct. 

Thanks for the confirmation and approval of my explanation!


(Also a profesional photographer btw)

apple4thewin said:

To be honest not many people (at least the people i know) use any form of carplay. Only recent cars have came around to it and it will probably take another 5 years for it to go mainstream when people finally upgrade their cars

I don't think you can accurately represent 'many people'.

CarPlay has been around since 2014, that's 9 years! No, not everyone has a new car, or even one less than 9 years old, but many millions of people do. I think it's probably mainstream by now.