auxio

dewme said:

For whatever reason, the tvOS 17 update is brutally slow
...
Must have been an electron clot or something like that.

Likely the update servers were getting slammed, some network operation timed out, and it never recovered. Typically why I don't jump on major OS updates for a day or two.

Roderikus said:

USB is such a ehhh….standard. 

Tim could have adopted it in 2009 if he were a visionary

Asking for a friend: how much does Google pay to troll Apple sites?

dave2012 said:

I'm not making any points, simply that I'm struck by a few odd similarities between the country of China and Apple:

 - one leader - Xi, Tim

 - Apple board has seven members

 - China's Politburo Standing Committee has seven members

 - Dissent is not tolerated
 - Secrecy is highly valued

 - Economic growth phenomenally successful

Wow, I'm "not making any points" but here's my bizarre conspiracy theory which is attempting to make a point. The mind boggles.

avon b7 said:

auxio said:

sirdir said:

If apple had done what they originally promised and opened iMessage and Facetime, there wouldn’t be a problem. 
I’m not a big fan of EU sticking their noses into businesses either, but if they need to be forced to do the right thing… That’s what’s going to happen. It’s the same as with USB-C. If they’d done the obviously right thing years ago, there wouldn’t be a law now. 

Where was USB-C again in 2012 when Apple introduced Lightning?

This was the convoluted state of USB at that time:



It took Apple to show the USB group how to design a connector "right". But pride and/or poor long term memory would never allow people to admit that.

To be fair, everyone already knew how to design a reversible connector. The designers of the original USB variants deliberately ruled out a reversible connector because it would have increased manufacturing costs and it was important to get industry onboard. 

Once it had established itself as 'universal' the reversible connector could be planned. 

It wasn't the costs, it was mainly that there were so many competing interests and they were trying to make everyone happy. Different power requirements for different devices, form factors, etc.

I worked on both the Firewire and USB drivers for Linux and the USB communication/bus control protocols were far far more complicated. Not surprising that, even still with USB-C and having learned from the past, there are still all sorts of bugs and quirks in the driver stack on most OSes. The complexity of USB is part of the reason Apple went in their own direction at the time.

sirdir said:

If apple had done what they originally promised and opened iMessage and Facetime, there wouldn’t be a problem. 
I’m not a big fan of EU sticking their noses into businesses either, but if they need to be forced to do the right thing… That’s what’s going to happen. It’s the same as with USB-C. If they’d done the obviously right thing years ago, there wouldn’t be a law now. 

Where was USB-C again in 2012 when Apple introduced Lightning?

This was the convoluted state of USB at that time:



It took Apple to show the USB group how to design a connector "right". But pride and/or poor long term memory would never allow people to admit that.