analogjack

BoneDoc said:

As a photography enthusiast, I love the potential that a dual camera may bring, namely proper bokeh (shallow depth of field from a large aperture with big sensors).   Properly spaced, you can even recreate and move your focal point like the lycos camera. 

Bokeh is not 'shallow depth of field', it is the particular patterns that form in the highly out of focus area on a shallow depth of field. Two lenses can have identically shallow depth of field if they have the same focal length and and aperture, but they can have elegant bokeh or ugly bokeh. And the biggest effect on bokeh is the pattern made by the aperture blades.

Dan, this is the most brutally hilarious and incisive article you've ever done (that I've seen anyway). I'm loving your new "pull no punches" sarcasm onslaught, especially at the fawning sycophantic Android phone apologists in the press. 

rogifan_new said:

I'm glad Spotify is doing this. Apple should allow subscription apps to offer a redirect to the browser to sign up. There's no reason Apple should be taking 30% of someone's monthly Spotify fee. They're not hosting any content. And it certainly doesn't cost them $3 to process the credit card transaction. Google allows alternate payment methods. Apple should do the same. How hard would it be for Spotify to have a link in the app that takes you out to Safari to sign up? It wouldn't be. This is all about $$$ for Apple. 

Apple built a shop and they charge people a commission to put stuff in their shop, pretty standard practice if you ask me. Imagine if I sold hand made leather bags in a street market, but I convinced a large high profile retail store to stock them and the store wanted a 30% commission. Do you think the store would be willing to put up a sign near the bags telling customers that they can get the bag cheaper from the market?

Spotify simply needs to spend some money advertising the fact that customers can purchase direct from them and save $3. Maybe there are a lot of people who simply don't want to take a chance on an app that was not bought on the App store and that is fair enough because Apple has spent a great deal to make it an experience that people are willing to pay extra for. Apple is the most valuable brand on Earth, and they charge for it's use. 

Eric Berne pointed out in his 'Games People Play', that 'criminals' are amongst the least studied of all the tribes, why? because the ones who are in jail are overwhelmingly not the actual criminals that psychologists would like to study, they are just the ones who get caught, in other words, the fools. The point I'm labouring to make is that only faux terrorists are going to use an iPhone if it has a built in back door, serious genuine dangerous terrorists will simply use the best safest encryption that it is possible to buy.

Samsung and Tidal, it will be like two drowning people holding on to each other. Quite a clever logo though.