JamesBrickley

The use of the Apple logo is ballsy.  Pretty sure Apple could nail them in court on that one.  

The detailing of specific tech specs is a cheap shot. The entire holistic experience of an iPhone is far superior to any Android.  Samsung has touted all these ridiculous features that no one uses because they do not work.  Their facial recognition was horrific especially compared to FaceID.  Samsung has a lot of quality control issues with high failure rates.  The Snapdragon was smoked by the A11 Bionic CPU.  Yes, the Intel radios suck compared to the Qualcomm and perhaps the S9 is slightly better on LTE but most people don't hit max speed anyway.  Yes, there is no headphone jack but if you use the AirPods they are remarkably excellent.  If you must use wired headphones use the lightning dongle, big deal.  So what if you have to charge the iPhone and who cares if need to buy an iPad charger to quick charge and a 2.1 amp car USB adapter.  Already got them.  

Samsung ads, meh... 

Not only is real leather expensive but it's heavy and unless they added padding, not much impact protection.  Would rather have a neoprene foam sleeve with a waterproof liner.

lorin schultz said:

lkrupp said:

[...] Remember that Steve Ballmer predicted the iPhone would fail would fail because it didn’t have a physical keyboard and therefore could not be used for business.

Balmer was wrong. It isn't the absence of a physical keyboard that's the big problem (though I admit I don't care for typing on a screen), it's the lack of convenient cursor control! Trying to edit text on a touch device is annoying enough to me that I will put down my phone and go to the computer just to post a comment here.

FYI, this is real and it's coming.  I have one of the test units. It works as advertised. It has been a long time coming, that is true but they really care about making it perfect.  It is going to make a lot of people very happy. It can move the cursor, select, copy, cut, paste, adjust volume, etc., etc. https://waytools.com

The idea that Jobs was resistant doesn't ring true because the SDK for iOS 2.0 was released 18 months and 2 days later.  That's not possible without the SDK already being written at the time of the iPhone launch.  Apple was clearly not ready to release the SDK so they didn't tell anyone about it.  Apple just doesn't discuss future plans ever.  The solution at the time of launch was to write Safari web apps.  Of course, Jobs knew about the SDK coming in the future, he just wasn't even going to hint about it. Writing an SDK/API is extremely complex and difficult.  You cannot just wing it.  It has to be perfect or you'll break an enormous number of apps when you change it radically.  They ported the kernel and base from OS X but replaced the GUI with what is now called UIKit because it was entirely touch-based and there was no mouse.

The last WWDC was rather radical as they discussed the rumors about UIKit on macOS.  That's how they ported the News, Stocks, and Voice Memo apps.  They have yet to release the tools to do this on your own and they said they are coming in 2019.  This is a very rare thing.  Apple really never talks about future tech like that.  But they must have felt it was important to dispel the rumors that were out of control.  UIKit on macOS is a good thing.  It will mean apps like Slack can be ported over so you don't have to use the crappy Electron version.  There are many more developers on iOS than macOS and for them to port an iOS app, re-writing it for AppKit is very difficult.  Porting UIKit to macOS makes a lot of sense.  But it's going to take years for it to potentially replace AppKit.  There is a lot of cruft in AppKit that dates back to NeXTStep/OpenStep.  Replacing it with UIKit over time as it evolves is something I can see happening.  Phasing it in slowly over time so there will only be UIKit and eventually, AppKit will die.  Perhaps with a change from Intel to Apple's custom ARM processors on Macs.  The A11 CPU is very powerful and in future, we may see many cores. A series CPU's with enough power to replace Intel using a fraction of the power.  The A11 is already 10nm's we may see 5nm and 3nm becoming possible in the next several years. What if you had 128 cores in a radical new ARM architecture built at 3nm or even 1nm?  Can you say supercomputer laptop with all-day battery life?  Someday it will be possible.

This is exactly why Grayshift and others charge so much for their tools because they won't sell many as the functionality is a moving target entirely reliant on their engineers outsmarting Apple engineers.  No system will be entirely secure but it's getting quite close and that Secure Enclave is quite impressive.  

I would prefer they just always ask for the passcode when connecting to USB if you are going to do anything beyond charging.  But if it's required for charging, meh, I can handle it for the piece of mind.  It's not the police I fear it is the future abuse of government.  They already are doing too much and privacy is nonexistent.