Soli

rob53 said:

Soli said:

rob53 said:

Soli said:

1) Not surprising at this time. If you use Apple Pay and you go to Starbucks you're probably using the app to both pre-order and to reload your card on the app via Apple Pay. Those points add up.

2) I doubt their growth is sustainable, but *Pay adoption will continue to grow as vendors accept Apple Pay (or vendors realize they've been able to accept Apple Pay ever since the got a chip card reader).

I keep telling merchants this but it’s the owners that don’t want to do anything about it. I guess it’s too technical for them. 

Get three stickers that Apple gives out and then give them the stickers or just start putting on the doors/windows and registers of those that take Apple Pay.

I have told them they can get a free sheet if stickers from Apple but most haven’t the faintest idea what I’m trying to do with my phone even though android phones can do similar payment techniques so it’s not just Apple Pay they don’t understand. 

It work worth that. It may never even work if you give them decals. You may to put them on yourself.

CheeseFreeze said:

entropys said:

Technology aside, Apple has been strangely quiet on how augmented reality can be practical. They just leave it to external devs. Almost everything has been gimmicky stuff as of now. 

When introducing amazing new technology Apple should always release it with a killer app to prove it is amazing. Also, work with developers to make sure there are a heap of killer apps in short order.  Over and over again Apple just release something cool and then there is no follow up, so it just withers.
The touchbar is another recent example.

I totally agree. Technology is just an instrument, a means to an end. If there is no ‘end’, technology is useless.

3D touch is another thing... it’s been totally gimmicky and they haven’t convinced the end user of any real use for it, other than app icon shortcuts. Removing it makes the interface more simple and production cheaper.

I use it all the time to move the cursor around within a text field. I can't imagine having to go back to the old way of editing a text window.

claire1 said:

So what are Tidals numbers?

By the last count they're effectively a tide pool compared to the other major players. Unfortunately for them, this is an industry that needs a minimum threshold of paying customers to support the infrastructure costs, which is probably why they're late on their royalty payments.

To their credit, they do have incredible mindshare for being so tiny. Does anyone even use Deezer? How many know that Napster was also now in this business? Also to their credit is they pay better than other services per play (or, rather, when they do pay).

I have no reason to want Tidal et al. to fail and several reasons why I'd like them to find a viable niche, but it looks like Tidal will continue to be on the ebb.

auxio said:

Soli said:

10GigE is a head scratcher, to me. It’s slower than both USB and WiFi, by costa more and is much bulkier, despite GigE being a longstanding standard that faster than both for a very long time.

It also supports much longer runs of cabling than USB, which makes it more suited for wiring up large buildings.  Different target markets.

They each have their pros and cons. I'm not suggesting that USB or WiFi be used where CAT-x cable a needed. My point is about how it hasn't evolved as well as other standards, or even in its earlier days from 10BASE-T to 100BASE-T, to 1000BASE-T. All the way to 40GigE with copper wire has been an IEEE standard for 2 years, but without 10GigE having been adopted like previous generations have for consumers is that something consumers will ever see?

If my point still isn't clear, look at a USB-A/3.0-to-GigE adapter and look at this USB-C/3.1-to-10GigE adapter and the cost. Something seems unbalanced about the technology growth for Ethernet.

gatorguy said:

nunzy said:

Apple is beating Google on this. Tesla too.

Apple has yet to even apply for a full driverless permit in California AFAIK while others have already moved on to other states and regions including winter snow testing, and operating fully driverless vehicles. At this point they are not "beating" the companies who already have driverless vehicles on the road and preparing for commercial use this year.  But that does not mean Apple is necessarily behind either. It's still early. 

He's trolling (poorly). He's been making simple, ridiculously pro-Apple comments on nearly every thread for awhile now.