jeffythequick

red oak said:

Evidently, completely fucking up mobile including the failed Nokia merger and Windows mobile,  the failed MIcrosoft retail stores,  weak Microsoft Surface device sales, failed wearables efforts, failed content services including MS App Store and music, …

Evidently, it all does not matter  how badly you fuck up

Kind of like Thomas Edison, who fu..messed up thousands of times, and still had 1,093 patents.
Ted Williams failed 656 times out of 1000 times at bat, and is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Apple failed with the Apple III, Lisa, Newton, Pippin, and a bunch of other things, and is still the has the highest market capitalization of any company (except the East India Tea Company in its day, but that's another story...)

Your last statement is so true, but there's something missing:  It's what you do after you mess up that defines whether you're a success or not.

The point is when we deal in failure, it's easy to build a case against anyone.  It is those that fail, learn, and move on who are the successes in the world. 

Beats said:

But everyone keeps telling me police are divine saints who do no harm???????

Also the a find My story is funny how they used a stolen iPad to find the location but couldn’t actually find the iPad that led them there. He must have hid it good! This is why you need a new iPhone to help you find your items. It has accurate tracking down to the foot. 

...and in 9/9 of these stories, the police are the ones that collect evidence of the wrongdoers, including the Trooper that did wrong, and was fired, convicted, and has two years of probation.  Police aren't divine saints, and I have been on both sides of the police story, as a person needing the police and someone that had the police called on me, which leads me to your second point...

On 9/11/19, my stuff was stolen from where I work, and here's the synopsis of what happened.
4:50pm - Found my backpack emptied, my work laptop askew (it was tethered to the desk), and my stuff gone, including an aviation headset, my iPad, and later, I found out charge cords and my wireless mouse (the nano dongle was still in my laptop, so it was evident it was a "grab and go" activity.  Note that this is a open area of a factory, with lots of visibility.

5:10pm - After calling the security at my company, and filing a report with them, I called the local police, and they said they'd "send someone over to take a report."  I told them I'd wait outside the gates of the company, so to make it easier.  I took pictures of the area with my work phone, where the stuff was stolen.

5:12pm - on my way to my car, I realized that my iPad was cellular, and I could use Find Friends on it, and discovered it was about 2 miles from where I used to live, in an apartment building.

5:13pm - called 911 to let the police know I was on my way over to where the iPad was, as it hadn't moved.  I checked a few times on the way over, and it didn't move, so I felt safe in the assumption that my stuff was in the apartment building.  I was told not to "get my stuff back" and "someone would be with me in a 'few minutes'"

6:00pm - arrived at the place where my stuff was, and parked outside a mini-mart.  I was thirsty, so I went inside to get something to drink.  After returning to the car, did another Find Friends to see that the iPad had moved to the corner of the street, where I saw a car with two people, a large well built 6'2" man and a woman, approximately 5'2" and about 110lbs at a car with a bunch of backpacks in it.  I called 911 to let them know that I think that these are the people, and asked where the police were.  They told me they were busy, and would get back to me "real soon".

6:45pm - my phone is going dead, and after the two people going through all of the backpacks, they decide to push the car to a gas pump.  I move my car to where they were, and get out of the car to get a charge cord.  I was pretending to be on the phone arguing with my wife about how she beat me up, so that when the police come to talk to me, it doesn't seem like they're there for these two.  I walk around talking loudly about how she threw hot soup on me and beat me with the pans, and how I'm afraid to come home.  I did all of this while taking pictures of these two.  Note to self:  Next time you try this, do a video.  All of the pictures looked like "bigfoot pictures".

6:50pm - on the way out of the store, the young woman stops me and asks for gas money.  This is too funny.  I apologize to her, and told her I didn't have any cash.  Then I yell into the phone that "this isn't my girlfriend.  You cheated on me!!!"  The young woman apologizes, and I cover the phone and apologize to her, and that "she (my wife) is crazy."

7:00pm I call 911 again from the car, and let them know that they're out of gas, and if they get there, they can get them.  I'm told that the police will get back to me "right away".

7:15pm  They get money, and start pumping gas.  I call 911, who patches me through to the police, who then interrogate me:  
"Did you see the things that were stolen?"  
"No, I was told not to confront them."  
"Well, if you didn't see it, file a police report."  
"You know if you come to me, I can make the iPad say, "Arrest these people, Officer Worthless (not his real name)", but I thought if I made it make all kinds of noises, then the tracking feature would be rendered useless when they tossed it out of the car."  Wait... they're leaving."
"Do not follow them"
"They're going the same direction as the place I live.  And look, my iPad is tracking along with them.  Who'd have thought?"
"Well, you need to file a police report."
"You're worthless.  You have the easiest crime to solve, and you just sat on your a@#$ when you could have done something about it.  I'll file the report, and have a wonderful night."
"Well. " *click*

8:00pm  I get home, and go online to file the police report, and discover my flight log, with about $12,000 in flight records is missing.  This increases the value of my items to >$15,000 ($12000 for the logbook information, $1500 for the headset, and $1500 for the iPad)

9:00pm I call the police department with this information, and they tell me to come down there.  I ask if Officer Worthless is there, and they tell me he has gone home for the night.  

10:00pm The police get the information from me directly, and it turns out my iPad is dutifully reporting that it is there, about 2 miles from my home.

11:00pm  The police let me know they have my stuff, and I can pick it up at 4am the next morning.  I am asked about a computer they had from my company, and I tell them I'll look into it.

4:00am  I go to the police station and get my stuff back

6:00am  I go to work and become the stuff of legend.  Everyone laughs at the detail I took.

The guy was arrested on possession of stolen property, possession of controlled substances, and possession of a stolen vehicle.  In gratitude, they returned all my stuff unharmed, and included things I didn't realize were stolen, but were mine.  I didn't get anything that wasn't mine, and didn't notice anything else missing.

about a month later, a detective calls me, and after the initial interview, starts laughing as we are going through the report I gave them.  He asked what I did, and understood my frustration when he read back the 911 call.  He said this was one of the easiest cases he had to put together.

Note to AI:  I can give you all of the case details, if you like.

seankill said:

urungus said:

IPhone13 might consume more power, for rumored 120Hz display, always on display, or some other new feature
So larger battery may not mean longer running time.

I’d turn the always on display off. Stupid feature IMO but I understand people will have different thoughts.  

Plus, like my Apple Watch 5, I get much longer battery life than my wife, who has that feature on.  But for those that like it, great.  For me, I'll just keep using the phone as I always have.

a hawkins said:

heli0s said:

I joined Facebook in 2006, back when it was a completely different experience. Finally left all of their platforms in 2020 and never looked back. My mental health has been significantly better since.

I envy you to be able to do that. Facebook is majority platform in my country and is the major channel to promote and sell things. So if I leave this platform it means the end of my income. Also every friends are on Facebook and even don't communicate via other platform. So unless you move to nowhere and do some agriculture there is no escape (and even so you may even have to use Facebook to find fertiliser vendor).

A few rules I live by:
1.  If it's free to you, you are the product being sold to someone else.
2.  Our church had everything on FB, and when I, and quite a few parishioners told the leader that we won't be attending any events, since we jettisoned FB, they went to a dual notification method:  FB and E-mail.
3.  I feel for you on the financial part, but in 5 years, there will be something else,  It's the nature of tech.

Here's the strategy:

Give them away to any company that wants to track the user's data
Offer a discount to the customers and say their partners will give a discount if you wear this 24/7.  the discount goes down with each hour they don't wear the watch.
Keep the initial pain point way down deep on paragraph 35 of section 43 of the ToS.
Harvest every bit of data from the person wearing it and sell, sell, sell it! 

1. Heart rate
2. Location
3. Activity level
4. how many times they look at it
5. If they have transactions on it, what they're buying
6. What they're saying, who they're saying it to...
7. What they're looking at on the Internet