nicholfd

tmay said:

nicholfd said:

tmay said:

designr said:

tmay said:

ps10405 said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

ps10405 said:

"SpaceX has a group of Starlink satellites that its using to use for its own brand of internet connectivity. The company has hyped this product for years -- and there are on-the-ground installations in Ukraine -- but the overall roll-out has been slow."

What is this paragraph trying to say? That there is a subset of Starlink satellites providing some sort of different service? Because there are over 500,000 Starlink subscribers across the planet--hardly "hype"

There is no argument to be made that Musk has hit his promised targets for the roll-out when the reality is that he is behind by years on his targets. That is the literal definition of "overall roll-out has been slow."

I have no idea what his announced targets have been, but by describing the current subscriber base as simply consisting of stations in Ukraine and ignoring the reality of a half-million subscribers is just really odd. Honestly I think the author is completely unaware of Starlink's subscriber and satellite count and is working with 2021 numbers. 

Oh ffs. The rollout has been slow.

Apple has a billion iPhone user base and growing, so half a million subscribers to Starlink to date looks like a rounding error to Apple. 

Seems like an apples and oranges comparison. No pun intended.

Seems like you failed to mention that there are today, and will be tomorrow, competitors to Starlink, including Amazon, and hence, why Apple isn't moved by a mere half a million subscribers in a nascent market.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/starlink-here-are-6-of-spacexs-biggest-rivals-for-satellite-internet-dominance

Those "competitors" may never make it off the ground.  Amazon/Blue Origin has NEVER launched ANYTHING into orbit to date.  And if they ever do, they will always be YEARS behind Starlink.

Some of the others are bigger players and have sats in orbit now, but they are still way behind Starlink, and will probably always be playing catch up...  Again, probably a consistent couple of years behind Starlink.

Sounds like wishful thinking on your part, same as the wishful thinking that Tesla is going to conquer the world of EV's. Elon benefits from first mover advantage, but he tends to get distracted by the next "great thing" and drops the ball.

Sill waiting for "FSD" to exceed Level 2 standards, and there are many promises that Elon has made that haven't and won't likely happen.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/01/amazon-takes-on-spacex-in-the-satellite-internet-with-project-kuiper.html

tmay said:

designr said:

tmay said:

ps10405 said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

ps10405 said:

"SpaceX has a group of Starlink satellites that its using to use for its own brand of internet connectivity. The company has hyped this product for years -- and there are on-the-ground installations in Ukraine -- but the overall roll-out has been slow."

What is this paragraph trying to say? That there is a subset of Starlink satellites providing some sort of different service? Because there are over 500,000 Starlink subscribers across the planet--hardly "hype"

There is no argument to be made that Musk has hit his promised targets for the roll-out when the reality is that he is behind by years on his targets. That is the literal definition of "overall roll-out has been slow."

I have no idea what his announced targets have been, but by describing the current subscriber base as simply consisting of stations in Ukraine and ignoring the reality of a half-million subscribers is just really odd. Honestly I think the author is completely unaware of Starlink's subscriber and satellite count and is working with 2021 numbers. 

Oh ffs. The rollout has been slow.

Apple has a billion iPhone user base and growing, so half a million subscribers to Starlink to date looks like a rounding error to Apple. 

Seems like an apples and oranges comparison. No pun intended.

Seems like you failed to mention that there are today, and will be tomorrow, competitors to Starlink, including Amazon, and hence, why Apple isn't moved by a mere half a million subscribers in a nascent market.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/starlink-here-are-6-of-spacexs-biggest-rivals-for-satellite-internet-dominance

ihatescreennames said:

AppleInsider said:

Brazil's Ministry of Justice has fined Apple $2.3 million and halted iPhone 13 sales until the company once again includes a charger in the box.

Does the charger actually have to be in the box or just available with the purchase at no extra cost?

If I had the choice I would choose no charger or cable since I have plenty of both already. However, my BIL just switched to an iPhone and needed to purchase both separately. 

fastasleep said:

nicholfd said:

spheric said:

Mail merge!? 

It took them A DECADE to reinstate this? 

It used to be that you could just drag a contact group directly from Address Book and drop it into an address field in any Pages or Numbers document, and - presto! - it would auto-generate a mailing to all of those recipients, including the proper salutation. 

No, I'm not imagining this — they removed the feature (along with super easy trackpad-based resize and rotate) back when they feature-synced iOS and Mac versions of iWork. 

So cool that they finally re-implement this essential functionality, years after it has almost entirely ceased to be useful, as paper mailing lists have long died for anything except weddings and funerals… 

You must not realize that mail merge is also used for e-mail, not just paper mail...

I haven't used it for paper mail in ages.  I do use it periodically for e-mail.

Why would you be mailing personalized documents generated in Pages via email? Can Pages send emails? I'm confused. 

tht said:

Right now, in June 2022, it looks like the release of Web Push in 2023 will be good for users and developers.

Hopefully Apple will have a flag to turn off Push notifications from web apps and web sites.   

I've taken quite the dim view of these "pro competition, pro business, pro consumer" rationales. GDPR pop-up notices are like a modern rendition of ActiveX pop-ups, and it didn't do anything to actually protect people. This Web Push stuff sounds like it is going to amp up notification marketing by increasing the surface area of who and what can send a push notification by orders of magnitude. Eventually a few "bad" players will blow up all the goodness and just trash everything. Like, all it takes is one "web app" to mess up your phone or PC and you will have to go through some cleaning activity.

Every single communications medium we have eventually just turns to shit. My mail box is 99% advertisements, and probably 99.999% by weight. Just the thought of the gas and diesel used to deliver that shit pisses me off. My landline phone is nothing but telemarketing and basically shit calls. My cell phone is getting there and I really should just turn on the flag to only allow my contacts to ring the phone. Email? Our email apps have the work of multiple PhDs to filter that stuff out, on multiple nodes of an email's path to your input. Text messaging? I think text messaging costing money way back when actually delayed the inevitable, especially now that regulators want "compatibility".