Dan_Dilger

RS232 said:

I just wanted to know why LiDAR is an important technology. I don’t think I got it because 80% of the article was editorial Android hate speech. Please keep the opinions about other competitors to at least articles marked “editorial“. 

Android is not a protected class, no matter how delicately thin your skin might be. And if you think some accurate comments about sales and ROI is "hate speech," come now, that's ridiculous.

seanismorris said:

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"consumers just don't see anything they want yet' in the field of AR

This is a true statement.  The key word is “yet”.  

Paying for AR before it’s useful is a waste of money.  It’s no more useful (at the moment) than a folding screen.

Why spend $1000 for something, when you can spend $500 and get an already overpowered device...

The market answered that for you. It's not a hypothetical whether hundreds of millions of consumers will spring $999+ for an iPhone, driven in part by TrueDepth and AR technologies. If you think nobody is using ARKit yet, look at the enterprise and education markets, which are significant. Also merchants who sell online report AR is boosting sales by a massive figure - 300% is nothing to scoff at. There are also many applications of AR that users don't even realize are AR, with Animoji, Portrait Lighting and various Snap/IG filters being a few examples. Brands investing in AR to reach customers is just as significant as people going out to specifically buy an AR game or getting an iPhone purely to do AR. There is obviously a lot driving AR for Apple to make it a significant focus of its development plans over the last few years. How on earth do you imagine that Apple is funding so much effort in AR if it is not benefitting from it at all? Really!

frantisek said:

My list of necessary and deliverable 2020 fixes included things like Apple working to radically revamp its language tools to fix the increasingly glaring and frustrating errors in QuickType autocorrect—which seems to have devolved from being nearly magical into an annoying hindrance over the past few years.

It was bad in in iOS 12 but even worse in iOS 13. I was happy when Apple announced bilingual typing without switching keyboard. First it supports just some language and second it just make more errors. And so weird typos i experience in iOS 13 I never saw before. And you have prediction, something we can dream of. It can even happen I type proper word or its case and iOS overwrite it with another. Very frustrating. And id it able to to it several times in row.

But much worse is that iOS and many apps behave like dumb stupid lemon when it comes to keeping track what language/keyboard was used in each conversation, text field. note or so. Why am I carrying supercomputer in my pocket that can do AI when it behave like I said. I do not care about LiDAR, 2TB iCloud, Arcade, TV but about things doing 200 times a day, it is typing.

Yes suggestions are definitely downgrading, but that's not related to Lidar, Arcade, etc. I notice often with two keyboard languages, I will only get words suggested in German when typing in English with the English keyboard, which is irritating. Spellcheck is also not well. I certainly agree, there definitely needs to be a focus given to "minor" aspects of the environment that you use all the time. These kinds of problems have a big drain on overall productivity and "user sat."

red oak said:

The number of ratings submitted on Apple Arcade is very low.   And, the ratings themselves the games are receiving are low.    That is an indication to me that usage and the number of subscribers are low.   

What makes you think it has been an "incredible success?" 

If you believe the bloggers who think Services is a "pivot from hardware" then yes it is not successful in matching iPhone revenue. But that's insane and stupid. 

The point of Arcade was to rescue casual gaming from the generic shovelware of App Store, creating new titles that are not Android-class copy and paste dreck generated by a game engine and monetized with ads or in app purchases, in order to make iOS clearly different and bring new titles to the Mac and Apple TV. That's the context of saying it is already a success:

"Arcade has barely been around for several months, yet has dramatically improved the quality of games parents can put in front of their kids without having to worry about security issues or ringing up a big bill of loot boxes and virtual coins. It's an incredible success, delivered simply by identifying an ambitious goal and then working to achieve it with development partners."

gatorguy said:

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knowitall said:

I think, not being able to locally produce goods, was a self fullfilling prophecy of asshole (it) managers back then driven by squeezing the last penny out of almost loss making products.

But we have several examples of attempts to build in America that failed. It wasn’t because of profitability or margins, it was because of product quality and expertise in manufacturing, which the United States lacked because it refuse to invest in people and plant. Granting massive tax breaks clearly wasn’t enough. The US should have invested in tech and it didn’t. 

It should have invested in 5G but it didn’t. And now it should be investing in clean energy and it isn’t. Imaging how that will work out. 

Wouldn't that be the job of private enterprise rather than the "gubment" to invest in plant and people?

FWIW I think you're ignoring the valuable tech that our government has funded: Siri, GPS, the internet, Unix (Multics) to name some major ones, and the US agencies were early in on things like maps, the TOR browser, even a company who mitigates the damage from DDoS attacks.  Heck the US government had a hand in funding nearly all the root technology that makes the iPhone a smartphone from location (GPS) to its touch display, search and communication thru the internet, and creation of what became Apple's voice-activated assistant.

Well you kind of answered your own question. If the USA hadn’t invested in internet tech and software, funding university work on OS, browsers, IP, etc, it likely wouldn’t be leading Internet and software everywhere but China (which blocked US software firms like Google, Facebook, etc).