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  • Apple's iPhone XR will launch with an official clear plastic case

    patchythepiratepatchythepirate
    Way to undo all of that hard work being environmentally friendly. 
    jesus. we get it, you are a super, environment warrior. you are a remarkable human being.

    Now for the rest of us, it's prudent to realize that >95% of all the plastic that gets into the ocean comes from Asia and Africa. Plastic phone cases and Californian straws are not the problem. And, as another commenter pointed out, the case will be recyclable, and likely made from some proportion of recycled plastic.


    davgreg

  • Apple planning to ramp iPhone XR production to 'over 50 percent' of new iPhones

    patchythepiratepatchythepirate

    I remember that I pretty much totally blew off those early rumors last year about the LCD version being the most popular, but it looks like it's going to be true!

    Unless you're a techie, want to show off, or you're a die hard Apple fan (me), there's not much of a reason to go for one of the Xs's (unless, of course, your main priority is screen size). Xr has the best battery life, big screen, nearly identical performance and camera, relatively lighter, and comes in a bunch of colors.

    In retrospect, I even feel a bit silly going for the Max, but (thankfully) I can afford it, I love the new gold color (usually not my style), and I want to finally (N.B. I'm using the word "finally" in keeping with proper Gruberian parlance) give in and give the Max/Plus phones a try.

    albegarc

  • Apple's Tim Cook drops to 96th place on list of CEOs most popular with workers

    patchythepiratepatchythepirate

    dysamoria said:
    So, is "divisive" the new euphemism to throw at people who stand for humane and ethical positions, just because they anger the status quo socially conservative/hostile corporatists?... or is that term also applied to the "world leaders" who are overtly hostile to humanitarian social issues?

    How are Cook's social politics negatively impacting Apple's bottom line? I'll tell you: not at all. I don't think we or Apple should walk on eggshells to appease the indignation of people turned off by a CEO who supports ethics and humane ideologies. Such people are on the wrong side of history... repeatedly. One would think that looking at the [slow and incomplete] progress on social equity, a business-minded individual would want to support a company who's leadership is aligned with inevitable progress, not those aligned with callous disregard or active opposition to social equity. If they think social equity is a threat to capitalism, they're likely doing capitalism wrongly and are part of the problem.

    Tim Cook's social politics are the only thing I like about him at this point. I don't like anything he's doing with Apple's business. I don't care about stock market gambling or profit margins. As a customer of their product, I only care about the quality of the product and it is not where it was years ago.

    I think Cook is driving Apple into a path of deep self-injury by focusing all efforts on feeding shareholder lust / Wall Street pathology.

    I'm not in any position to benefit from Cook's social politics; I just respect him using his position to promote humanitarian and ethical ideologies, rather than being callously "neutral" like most corporations. I find it hard to support the notion of kicking him out, even with his poor product leadership, because I value society over my own personal product usage experiences.

    *CO2 caused climate change is a gross exaggeration at best , if you look at the data, which show correlation, not causation. Not to mention, man-made CO2 is beyond minuscule, only 4% of the 0.04% of the CO2 in the atmosphere; do the math: man-made CO2 is 0.0016% of the earth's atmosphere.
    Hey, you should get in touch w/ Neil deGrasse Tyson and him know they got it all wrong on Cosmos, and that greenhouse gases don't really trap the sun's energy inside our atmospheric envelope.

    As TS mentioned, appeal to others is not an argument. Looks like you're referring to the black body effect. Even assuming CO2 is at an impact level in the atmosphere, and assuming that humans contribute more than 3-4% of this CO2.. CO2 is only capable of absorbing 8% of the total black body radiation emitted from the earth's surface.
    tallest skil

  • Apple's Tim Cook drops to 96th place on list of CEOs most popular with workers

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    Sorry, Patchy; I edited my post above yours with a question to you, so you probably won’t see it otherwise. Can you give your thoughts on what you’d like to see out of a “social media” platform for music, particularly in relation to how Ping failed?
    Hey TS. I'd be happy to. As for Ping, I feel like Steve knew it would fail without connecting with FB, which unfortunately Zuck declined to do after they had their walk through the neighborhood. I use social media, and the Music app, all the time, mostly the big 4: snapchat, facebook, instagram, twitter. They're all interesting/fun in different ways, but all 4 share some very important qualities which make them successful, NONE of which are shared by social features in Apple music:

    1) easy ability to express personal tastes, qualities, and values
    2) easy ability to connect with others
    3) easy, practical methods of communication
    4) and most, particularly snapchat, are just fun to use

    I can't think of a single Apple social app that as ANY one of those qualities. Messages comes close, but not quite, still mostly operates in a practical sense, where it is just convenient to text/message people. For other, more personal/fun/expressive interactions, most of that is done on the big 4. Stickers are fun and fairly easy to use, but I'm the only person I know that uses them for whatever reason. Apple Pay should be nice, but it's more practical than social. Animoji, as I mentioned above, while technologically very impressive, and may be fun to just try out, are not personal enough (just a watered down version of your facial expression only), expressive enough (expressiveness seems limited to me), and not practical (no one wants to communicate by sending recorded messages back and forth; with the exception of straight video messages). Mimoji only addresses the personal part, not practical, and actually not all that expressive (look at snapchats Bitmoji as a contrast).

    For Apple Music to improve, and take advantage of it's unmatched social potential, it needs to:

    1) have a highly customizable , personal homepage that allows for pictures, ability to organize songs and playlists, ability to add descriptors to these elements,
    2) adopt ability to easily cross reference and drive interest using hashtags and ability to tag peers (like fb, ig, and twitter do); should be able to share posts from or share posts to other social media platforms; facilitate connectedness within Apple Music itself by having personalized groups and allow others to create their own personalized groups (public or private)
    3) provide a UI and composing tools that make it easy to create creative, expressive posts (snapchat is the best at this, so easy to add words, Bitmoji, and even AR characters in your videos and pics; it's really fun actually).
    4) have elements that are fun; again, snapchat excels at this. snapchat creates fun pre-made expressive elements that you can place into your media, or even incorporate your own personal bitmoji character into. Apple could *easily* do this with a better and more comprehensive application of their mimoji (which are basically their version of Bitmoji).*

    *Bitmoji are much more fun and expressive than Apple's mimoji, which are more realistic. It's hard to say at this point which method is ultimately going to win out, more expressive/fun vs more accurate. I think ultimately people will use both, just in different contexts. It's also not hard to see that Apple likely has significant ambitions with mimoji, that will include full body characters, and incorporate AR/VR. But how long is apple going to take??? Animoji was a baby step, 1/20th to where snapchat is. Mimoji, an entire year later, brings us to about 1/10th of the usefulness/entertainment value of something like snapchat (primarily hamstrung by lack of practicality of sending videos as the method of engagement). I'm sick of Apple taking baby steps, esp when they've already done 90% of the hard work with FaceID/expression mimicking; a few software tweaks is all that's needed to make it very, very popular, useful, and fun:
    -ability to make full body mimojis
    -ability to freeze personal expressions (impromptu facial expressions plus manually selected body poses), save them, and be able to easily access them on the fly to use in messaging (which is how you use Bitmoji if you have it installed in Messages, which I do)
    -create pre-made expressive themes (again, like Bitmoji), that are creative and allow for instant, fun, personal expression. For example: a mimoji laying in a bed with sheep jumping overhead is much more fun and engaging than typing "goodnight" to someone. Here's an example of how Bitmoji automatically plugs my character into expression suggestions:


    tallest skil

  • Apple, Oprah Winfrey sign multi-year deal for TV programming

    patchythepiratepatchythepirate
    Odds are, if your post was deleted, its because it got caught up in a sweep after an early post got deleted.

    That said, it might be time to brush up on the forum guidelines. Don't start a partisan fight.
    C'mon.. you deleted my entire post? Seriously? I was just stating my opinion, and not antagonistic towards anyone on the forum at all. In fact, I was even defending and complementary to AI's reporting. Perhaps I jumped the gun on that one. You're letting Nunzy troll away on every thread, but when I put out a thoughtful post, it gets taken down just because it might offend a few politically sensitive people??

    Is there a way to at least get the content of my post back. I spent a few min writing it..
    nunzySpamSandwich