greg uvan

I don't like Google Maps because of privacy issues. I mostly only use Apple Maps. But then, I visited a small city in Quebec, and Apple Maps basically pretended like it didn't exist. The satellite imagery was super blurry, and all in black and white. There were very few points of interest marked. 

I bit the bullet and installed Google Maps, because I needed to find a place to eat breakfast with my kids. It blew my mind apart, to see how far ahead Google is than Apple. Considering the absolute poverty of Apple's data in this city, Google had street view of every street in the town. AND, it had 3D models of many major landmarks, such as the main cathedral. 

I love Apple, and I am super glad to hear that they're still putting their shoulder behind the grindstone and are committed to improving Maps, because compared to Google, they have a very long way to go. Maybe that's not true in big cities like San Fran or New York, but in smaller places it is very much the case.

This feels to me like one of the strongest reasons for why jailbreaking should be possible. If you own the CPU, and you want to install your own unsupported version of the core software, with some personal technical prowess, you should be able to do that. Then you can run your cryptocurrency mining software, but you also can't come back and sue Apple for battery issues, overheating, slow performance, or anything else. Otherwise, it makes sense for Apple to ban some forms of computation within their ecosystem. Cryptocurrency mining is by definition a bottomless pit of running all CPU cores at 100%, for as long as possible. Unless someone steps in to limit it, it does not align with the goals that ordinary users have of, cool running, long lasting, responsive performance from their phone. Even the thermal realities of a phone means running it hot for prolonged periods of time would likely shorten the life of the hardware. And all of that comes back on Apple in the form of class action lawsuits.

Hm. I don't use facebook, but I rather liked the Twitter and Vimeo integrations. 

It was kind of a sign that the Twitter integration remained limited to 140 characters. 

anantksundaram said:

What’s Canadian English, eh?

Not whatever you just said. That is not how a Canadian uses Eh. Eh is used to request affirmative confirmation after making a statement of opinion. 

"Siri will now support Canadian English.[can't use "Eh" here.] That's pretty cool, Eh?" I opine that it's cool, and request your confirmation with the question word, Eh.

This has been today's lesson in how to speak Canadian English.

I know what it's like to have a pet bug that's annoying, and then to eagerly await an update in hopes that it'll get fixed, only to discover that it hasn't been addressed. 

(Heh, like, how about all the little things in the Finder that annoy me, and haven't been addressed ever.) 

But, I try not to let those minor disappointments overshadow my appreciation of the things they do work on. The features that are added, and the improvements that are made in innumerable other small places.