georgie01

SoundJudgment said:

Just wait. You know the Luddites are going to scream and cry "Hack! Fraud!", as is their want, to prevent this from moving forward.  And we will all be stuck back in the 20th Century for the next 200 years.

Yes it’s so Neanderthal and inconvenient to use a very small paper passport. I’m all for progress but changing for the sake of something new that feels ‘high tech’ is foolish.

Once upon a time it was cool and fun to have your passport stamped in other countries, or have interesting visas affixed to your pages.

Why do you think there is a push for a centralised electronic repository for information? I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but it also doesn’t take any intelligence to understand where it is headed. You just need to take your head out of the sand.

Uh ... the author of the article needs to buy a macOS computer.

People trying to transform the iPad into what they consider a ‘proper’ computer are expressing their lack of understanding of the iPad’s actual benefit.

When the iPad first came out I loved that it wasn’t like a normal computer. I loved the simple file management (and I hate the current Files app). I did actual serious work on it. No it’s not as feature comprehensive as a full computer but the simplicity made for a new valuable computing experience.

A Pro version should be focussed on pro apps and hardware. It shouldn’t be focussed on making it more like a macOS computer.

I agree with InspiredCode that running Xcode and developing right on the iPad would be an excellent Pro feature. But not if it works exactly like the macOS version and requires a mouse and keyboard—if I wanted that I’d just use my MacBookPro.

A solution in search of a problem. Apart from a tiny minority of extremists, who out there was really suffering in emotional pain because they weren’t given the option to choose to not have a female voice by default while hypocritically not wanting to actually acknowledge the gender of their Siri voice?

It’s literally absurd, and I’m surprised Apple has become so unthinking in their attempt to be ‘woke’. There’s nothing sexist about having a female voice by default—female voices are generally more pleasant to listen to than equivalent male voices, and we should celebrate differences instead of trying to eliminate them.

Discrimination happens all of the time and for an infinite number of reasons. It’s just the ‘woke’ crowd that wants to pretend it’s only against women, or black people, etc. In reality, we discriminate against others in varying degrees every day—because their personality rubs us the wrong way, or because they look or dress funny, or because they have bad breath, or because they make stupid jokes, etc.

Maybe this lady is just an annoying person and interprets people’s response as discrimination. People see what they want to see.

flydog said:

For many apps, the business model of selling an app for a one time fee, then supporting that customer forever is unsustainable.

The assumption you have here is that the developer deserves to stay in business ‘forever’. Of course it would be nice if everyone had the work they need, but that’s a pipe dream which will eventually ruin any group which tries to make it happen.

We need to focus first on what’s fair within the scope of the service being offered. We can purchase cars and rent cars. But what if car manufacturers decided to stop selling cars and only offered cars as rentals in order to make more money?

It seems to me the issue of fairness comes from the reason for offering it as a rental. If the developer is exploiting the rental service—using it as a means to force a user to have to keep paying—that doesn’t seem fair. But if the developer genuinely wants to make their otherwise expensive software accessible to more users through a lower rental fee with temporary access (like a car rental), then that seems ok.