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  • Samsung exec says Galaxy Fold finally 'ready to hit the market'

    jeffythequickjeffythequick
    Good on Samsung!

    The road to innovation is not a smooth one.  It's rocky, has cliffs on either side, and is narrow.

    or, from T. Roosevelt:

    It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

    The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;
    who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
    but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
    who knows great enthusiasms,
    the great devotions;
    who spends himself in a worthy cause;
    who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
    and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
    so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.


    muthuk_vanalingamAppleExposed

  • Apple investigating move of up to 30% of production out of China

    jeffythequickjeffythequick
    This has been going on for a while...
    Putting all your eggs in one basket is a bad strategy.
    donjuan

  • What to expect at the 2019 WWDC from iOS 13 and watchOS 6

    jeffythequickjeffythequick
         I’d like to see complications on the Apple Workout app.  I’m a Type 1 diabetic, and having my blood sugar on my Apple Watch is great, but riding a bike, stopping to switch screens while on the workout app to check it is just cumbersome.  Being able to just look at my watch, see my heartbeat, miles ridden, blood sugar with trending information, and time worked out and other info would be ideal.  Plus, who know what other health information could be put there.  Blood sugar while working out is one of those critical things.


    How are you getting blood sugar on your phone?  Do you have dedicated hardware and a dedicated app?
    The Dexcom sensor and app do it nicely.  There's a sensor that goes through the skin, and broadcasts to my pump and phone.  After that, it goes to the Watch.  The Freestyle Libre won't work for me, as I don't want to have to tap my phone or transmitter to it.  I've seen people do it (in passing), but I've never asked if it does it automagically, like the Dexcom does through bluetooth.

    The Dexcom G6 (and G5) compare pretty closely to finger sticks.  G6 doesn't require them, but I still check anyway.
    beowulfschmidtiqatedo

  • Snapchat employees abused company data access tools to spy on users

    jeffythequickjeffythequick
    djames4242 said:
    dysamoria said:
    frantisek said:
    My experience with Snapchat is just short but o am surprised it’s allowed on AppStore. It’s just social network for PornHub and transgender girls selling their nudes.
    1. I see countless examples of Snapchat usage that’s not porn. Maybe you’re only familiar with the porn angle because you’ve seen Snapchat images a lot while browsing for porn, but it’s not remotely “just a social network for pornhub”.

    2. If no one is being harmed, and it’s all consensual, what should anyone care if people use the tool for sexual purposes? Give humans a tool and some of them will use it for sexual purposes. We are sexual beings. Its just what people do. Do you have a problem with human sexuality?
    This is all very off-topic, but my issue with Snapchat is the disappearing messages. What possible reason for this feature to exist could there be other than for kids to hide their conversations from their parents. It's horrible, and for that reason the app should be restricted to adults-only.
    My daughter found out the hard way that with screen shots, things never disappear.
    Her phone has been taken away, as we were naiive in thinking that "good kids don't have to worry about this kind of thing".
    watto_cobra

  • What to expect at the 2019 WWDC from iOS 13 and watchOS 6

    jeffythequickjeffythequick
    Things I’d like to see:
    1.  Mouse support for the iPad.  Just because you don’t want one doesn’t mean I don’t want one.  Using Excel on an iPad is a nightmare for me, as I select multiple cells, and I feel like I’m wearing mittens and eating M&M’s when using it.  Bluetooth would be preferred.
    2.  While still using an Apple Watch Series 0, and in the market for a new one (battery life at 15 hours with no workout, 6 with a 30 minute workout - now use Strava on my iPhone for bike rides because...
         I’d like to see complications on the Apple Workout app.  I’m a Type 1 diabetic, and having my blood sugar on my Apple Watch is great, but riding a bike, stopping to switch screens while on the workout app to check it is just cumbersome.  Being able to just look at my watch, see my heartbeat, miles ridden, blood sugar with trending information, and time worked out and other info would be ideal.  Plus, who know what other health information could be put there.  Blood sugar while working out is one of those critical things.
    3.  Yep, having the ipad as a 4th screen on my setup would be great, especially when using my flight sim.  It’d make a great flight panel.  Or better yet...
    4.  xR technology on the mac.  Having AR to use instead of 3 4K (OK, 2 4K and 1 5K) monitors would be a lot less drain on my iMac than an AR system, but then again, it would have to send it all wirelessly, which doesn’t really thrill me.  Maybe have it attach to the iPhone... but then the controls I have would have to attach somehow.  They’re low data bandwidth devices, so maybe a Bluetooth to USB box could accommodate the yoke/throttle/radio/switches, but that’s a very small sliver of the computing world, so I doubt this would be a “go”.

    cgWerks