msuberly

This is a load of crap.  The problem is with one company.  If the author took the effort to actually view the numbers of complaints instead of being lazy and only looking at the Downdetector graph he would see that the complaints of AT&T this morning dwarf the low numbers at Verizon and T-Mobile.  That backs up Verizon's and T-Mobile's statements that their networks are fine and the complaints are because their customers cannot reach AT&T customers.

I know Apple won't ever do it again, but I very much prefer a mechanical scroll wheel to gesture scrolling on a mouse. Gestures are fine on a trackpad that stays in one place but on the mouse it doesn't work for me.

tht said:

I thought the business prospect of FSD was that you can let your car be part of a rideshare program - Uber, Lyft et al - while you aren't using it and make a lot of money.

Me: "Siri, why does my car smell like weed and have stains in the back seat?"

Sir: "My 10:07am rideshare customers had three-way sex in the back seat." "My 1:17pm rideshare customers passed around a joint." "Would you like me to search for a custom detailer?"

Some business prospect.

A man gets robbed at gunpoint and AI cares about his choice of phone?

rogifan_new said:

lord amhran said:

Not totally surprising. The iPad, while nice, isn't something I'd want to use long-term in a classroom setting. I need a full wordprocessor, spreadsheet among other things and for that my MacBook Air is vastly better for me.

Seems to me these weren't deployed properly if students were playing games on them. Calling the iPad a toy is ridiculous. And if the need was word processing and spreadsheets why did they choose iPads to begin with?

Because schools jump on the iPad bandwagon without understanding how to use them.

What is Apple supposed to do, hand out iPhones to everyone in Israel and Gaza so they can shoot text messages at each other instead of guns???  Make a statement so a group of employees can feel good about themselves as they go to work within the United States???

If the employees don't like their jobs, they should look for alternate employment, or maybe travel to Gaza to fight.

One could already look at the calendar on Apple Watch and determine when one was going to be sick: day after the Super Bowl, day after a birthday, day after any other day.

It’s always a good day to be sick and not go to work. 

robin huber said:

Smart move. Actions have consequences. Though I suspect the Britons will not rise up in outrage. They tolerate a much lower bar for privacy than Americans—camera tracking in the public space in the UK is second only to China. British cop shows often feature sequences where folks are tracked continuously on monitors using a combination of CCTV and cell phone signals. 

No. A real consequence would be Apple pulling its entire product line and support from the UK. Then 67 million people could decide if this action by their government is warranted. “You will lose all Apple products” carries way more weight than “you will lose end-to-end encryption for various features”, knowing most consumers have no idea what this means. 

Not possible you say? Why not, Apple did it with Russia for reasons that had nothing to do with any of its products.

teaearlegreyhot said:

That is, assuming the UK continues to admit travelers from the US.

Why wouldn’t the UK admit travelers from the US?

I have had two kids issued iPads by two different schools. Neither was an effective learning tool. The only benefits I saw were: (1) fewer books for the kids to carry around and (2) marketing ploy for the schools (both private).

When my kids had to do real work they had to switch to a full computer.