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  • Sorry, Netflix support isn't coming to the Apple TV app

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    StrangeDays said:
    It’s striking that the biggest apps (YouTube, Prime Video, Netflix, Max) are all among the worst, most poorly implemented video players out there. YT and Prime are simply god awful, ignoring native UX paradigms and using their crap non-native interfaces. Max has regressed and now doesn’t even support “what did he say?”, or rewind captions; hell, even edge-click to rewind is non-native there now, requiring two clicks to activate instead of one, and other weird anomalies and departures from the native player. 

    The bigger the company, the more their app sucks, seems to be the rule. 
    Why is that surprising?
    it follows the poor standard of all tech
    worst communications companies are the biggest even all of them are bad at communicating. Windows biggest and chock full of bad and outright stupid interface elements. Outlook has the dumbest conventions that some reason doesn’t just follow windows dumb but takes it up a notch. Biggest Cad-BIM vendors are there by inertia not skill. The bigger the news organisation the less demanding they are on facts and more just content to fill the void. 

    Bigger just isn’t better 
    lolliverwatto_cobra

  • Apple Maps renames Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America after official database update

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    tzterri said:
    From what I understand, it's only for American devices the rest of the world will still see the Gulf of Mexico.

    As this is an executive action it will disappear with the next president. 

    Are we great yet because I'm just embarrassed
    So anyone using a VPN to avoid porn bans and other measures will still see the correct name. 

    How long till a conservative politician publicly scolds Apple for not following the proclamation and outs themself?
    9secondkox2mike1tiredskillswatto_cobra

  • UK secretly orders Apple to let it spy on iPhone users worldwide

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    dutchlord said:
    I bet Trump will sign a decree claiming the UK as 52nd state and will transform the whole country in a golf course. Game over.  :D
    Except he’ll write England in the order not realising the difference and effectively make Scotland and all that oil independent. 
    Alex1Nwatto_cobra

  • UK secretly orders Apple to let it spy on iPhone users worldwide

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    Stabitha_Christie said:
    Xed said:
    Apple could also just pull out of the UK entirely, fire all their UK employees, and stop buying UK goods and services.  I know they won't, but feck all fascist governments.
    By that logic, they need to pull out of the USA immediately. 
    Because Apple is in the US that means they should prop up fascism and a police state?
    Not directed at you personally, but people need to learn what fascism is. Fascism is a type of authoritarianism but not authoritarianism is fascism. 

    Fascism is a far-right system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

    The U.K. is capitalist, and we can certainly argue that this would be a stringent movement control the rest of the definition doesn't fit at all. There U.K. isn't governed by the far-right, it isn't a dictatorship, there isn't violent suppression of opposition and the list goes on. So, yeah, not fascism at all 
    As a member of a follow commonwealth country i’d like to point out that a monarchy is in fact a dictatorship and the spy powers requested then probably back doored to friendly media companies is a form of suppression that is still domestic terrorism even if not directly violent. 

    Even if the monarchy is useless, feckless and gormless.

    given this is coming from the supposedly left wing party it would suggest the right wing religious faction is in command of the party. 

    It would seem you are at least proto fascist 
    Alex1Nwatto_cobra

  • Apple is working on a 'lifelike' robot lamp, and it's just as cute as you'd expect

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    entropys said:
    At first I reckon that would be extremely cool to play around with but I suspect very creepy about 3.14159 seconds into doing any work.

    as said earlier, Apple would produce something effectively invisible.
    If it makes pie then it’s welcome in my house. 
    apple4thewinAlex1Nbyronl