All-Purpose Guru

racerhomie3 said:

montrosemacs said:

racerhomie3 said:

Idiotic activism.

Does love scare you?

No but putting out ads that leave 50% of people triggered is not a good thing for Apple.

You are not using the specific term "triggered" properly, nor do your views represent anything near 50% of people's opinions. Apple embraces these views among their employees, customers, and people at large. If a large quantity of people objected to these views I find it hard to believe they'd still be the largest and most successful company on the planet.

airnerd said:

Looks good. Needs a banana for scale.

Is there some reason why every single review of this thing doesn't show an item next to it for scale?  I find it really odd that I've read 3-4 reviews of this thing but I have NO idea how big it is because every single review shows the device by itself.

Take a picture of it with an iPhone sitting next to it, or a business card, or *something*.  Even a banana would work, yes, but they come in different sizes, but it would at least give us an idea.  

Good article, Mike.  

There are a few caveats to this situation, however.

1) This only works for apps you have already purchased.  If you try to purchase an app from the store that is new to your iDevice, you will get the error "This app requires iOS x.x" and it won't let you buy it, EVEN IF THERE ARE OLDER VERSIONS OF THE APP AVAILABLE.  This is a bug in the App Store that has been around FOREVER, Apple *knows* about it (I put in one of the Radars myself when I was a developer), and it has never been fixed.

It used to be that you could get around this by purchasing the app in the App Store on iTunes on a Mac- which put it in the "Purchased" list on the device, allowing Mike's instructions (above) to work.  Unfortunately, Apple removed THAT capability last year when they "improved" iTunes  by taking the iOS app store out.

2) As Mike listed above, many times you will download an App that immediately says "ooh, you should upgrade", or it just doesn't work.
The Starbucks, Walmart and Overcast apps are some of these.  

Usually this is driven by changes to the back-end of the app, where the developer either deliberately broke backwards compatibility or didn't bother to think about it. This isn't Apple's fault-- if the older apps don't work any more the developer should remove them from the store.  

douglas bailey said:

Hey, I think it would be worth rewriting the article since, you know, 13 weeks vs 14 weeks.

There you go assuming that anybody in the media gives a SHIT about accuracy.

If you were to rewrite the article you'd have to get rid of the clickbait and nobody in the media cares about anything BUT that.

Holee crap, Star Micronics is still around?  

I remember when they were competing against Epson's MX-80 dot matrix printer.

I'm oooooold.