lordjohnwhorfin

Guess they had no backup plan…

WTF! The HomePod is awesome! If anything I wanted a bigger one, a subwoofer and multichannel sound! The HomePod mini is cute and sounds great, but it doesn’t play loud enough. This is disappointing.

The arrogance and entitlement are laughable, but their belief Saint Jobs would have been on their side really shows how clueless they are. He would have sacked their sorry asses faster than they can say “Tesla” or “LaCroix”

The system was released at a time when no vaccine was available as a privacy-respectful way to notify people they could have been exposed and should quarantine.
Saying that money and efforts should have been directed to vaccination campaigns when no vaccine was available is just flatly wrong on its face. This was a great early tool which combined with masks and distancing could have helped stop the virus, if irresponsible morons hadn’t turned it (and still are) into a political issue. The absurdity of it all is staggering. I could almost understand early reluctance to the vaccine, but how incredibly stupid does someone have to be to reject mask wearing in the middle of a pandemic? Mind boggling.

So that’s what merrick garland has been doing instead of putting trump in jail. Criminal.

European regulators have a history of shooting their citizens in the foot, I think it’s really interesting to compare their approach to web site tracking (forcing each web site to implement an infuriating, often time consuming dialog for each new site you visit where most of the times the only way to turn off tracking requires reviewing a bezillion options, forcing most people to give up and choose the easy one click solution where you agree to being tracked) to the one implemented by Apple, where one simple click resulted in wiping out 2/3 of Meta’s ad revenue.
Check it out next time you visit Europe (or if you have access to a EU-based VPN). Mind boggling. But hey, at least now they forced all-USBC on phones (filling up landfills with billions of Lightning cables, well played)

It’s worth mentioning that ARM (not Arm, it is an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines or Acorn RISC Machines) was started in 1990 as a joint venture between Acorn, VLSI and… Apple.
Also, the PPC to Intel transition was not the first heart transplant for Apple; back in 1994 it abandoned Motorola’s 68xxx product line that it started using 10 years prior with the Macintosh and transitioned to PowerPC, and that transition was incredibly smooth and well executed. A 68k emulator was provided and legacy code was supported, and software makers were able to ship “fat binaries” that ran optimally on both architectures.
The transition to OSX/macOS, which is at the core a reskinning of NeXT OS, brought with it NeXT’s own experience in supporting multiple CPUs (it initially shipped on 68k but eventually supported Sun SPARC, HP and Intel) and made the transition from PPC to Intel painless. Apple’s know how in the field is unique and spectacular.

I’d like to have a display of what’s playing now and what’s coming up next, including videos, lyrics, animations, something customizable between the screens at Starbucks and the Shazam displays. And instead of a tiny screen on a speaker, it should be a “now playing” app that can run on an AppleTV, an iPhone/iPad, or a dedicated screen, or even better some third party inexpensive screen, why not.
Like @"slow n easy" said not everybody has a use for a screen that’s sitting on top of a speaker.

Of course improving the performance of AirPlay 2 would also be nice, because last time I tried to stream to three simultaneous targets it collapsed after 2 songs.

European providers charge their users a fortune for sending SMS to the US, anybody knows if RCS is subject to the same sort of fleecing? It’s one of the reasons that drove users to Skype and then to WhatsApp, in addition to rich messaging.

The immersive videos are absolutely completely incredibly mind blowing.