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Apple still has a lot of secret apps for Vision Pro in the works
Pretty sure that the question “But, do you really believe the average Joe is going to sit around for hours doing X?” has been asked and answered affirmatively many times.M68000 said:I guess I’m shortsighted as user Cg27 says. Certainly, the device is high tech. But, i find it hard to believe it’s going to replace my iphone and large screen TV among other things as some have said. The device may be great for special use cases. But, do you really believe average Joe user is going to sit around for hours wearing this ski goggle device? LOL. Wearing this thing for long periods of time may be bad for people’s hair too?
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EU law requiring easier iPhone battery replacement inches closer to enactment
The only thing I’d like to see is an option where a manufacturer can take full responsibility for recycling a unit (in compliance with the reclamation figures), and perhaps a financial incentive to offset the device’s lack of serviceability. Basically turning something in to get cash or credit for a replacement.My concern here is that serviceability and recyclability should be severable issues.
If a glue process makes it easier for automated recapture vs a mechanical friction retainer, but impedes the ease of repair, recycling should supersede repair.I’m not an engineer and haven’t done any research on this, just wondering out loud about the trade offs.
I do know that for a building, because of the sunk energy costs, prevailing theory is that you try to rehabilitate the existing structure as much as possible rather than tear it down. Even if that’s less cost-effective for the owner. Because it’s more effective for the environment. (Although there’s still a fair bit of debate on the trade-offs, and that’s a good thing.) I’m also unaware of whether the EU mandates a specific remedy vs leaving it to local concerns. However, the EU tends to come off as 100% prescriptive in these matters vs trying to develop new methods of accomplishing similar aims. Whether that’s objectively true or not, I can’t say.Regarding the perceived anti-EU bias, the EU protects many of its industries and businesses (and jobs) to the detriment of consumers world-wide. This is why you get push back from a lot of North Americans. They’re fully aware of the hypocrisy. The pro-EU gang come off as willfully ignorant of this, and a dash of humility wouldn’t hurt. North Americans need to more forgiving in that this is a messy, uneven process towards desirable goals, one that will always involve trade-offs. We’re prone to offering up way to much whataboutism in order to avoid responsibility. A dash of humility wouldn’t hurt here either. (Also, being mindful that Europeans aren’t any more monolithic than folks from the States wouldn’t hurt. Nor would an acknowledgment that the U.S. has at times force-fed Europeans its own solutions, leaving some lingering resentments.)
Much of the friction here revolves around differing philosophies and political concerns. It puts us way too far apart on way too important an issue. It’s unfortunate in that we’ll all be taking a gamble on the outcome over the coming years and decades.
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Apps Apple Sherlocked at WWDC23 in iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma
No I understood it quite well. You didn’t. Each iteration of an idea or form supplants what came earlier, i.e. “taking market share”. It's called competition. Upstarts dethrone market leaders, and market leaders seek to maintain their lead. (IBM/MS tried to kill off Apple’s graphical interface head start, and in turn PC cloners killed off IBM’s lock on x86 computing. Your logic would have us living in a world where only Apple has a GUI and only IBM makes BIOS compatible x86 machines.)Xed said:
There's nothing wrong with the article. Regarding AllTrails, during the keynote for iOS I specifically thought to myself if I'll ever have to purchase AllTrails again for offline topography and trail maps. If I don't, how is that not Sherlocking the app since I won't need AllTrails for its core functionality any longer?freeassociate2 said:Could we maybe stop perpetuating effing this b.s.?
I mean an app that doesn’t exist anymore? That's how far you need to reach for an example?
Topogrophy? Really? Have you even used AllTrails, do you really think that’s its core functionality? Did AllTrails Sherlock map makers?
For every one of these examples, there’s something else that either has already used the ideas previously in a different form OR is a feature of another app or operating system. Stop acting like using ideas is theft.
I mean, are we going to say Apple “sherlock’d” the phone industry because it took preexisting ideas and came out with a phone that competed with some of its partners (at the time)? How far back do we go with this?
Sometimes it's pretty clear AI is... let’s put it politely... repurposing content first reported elsewhere, and not always with attribution. Are you sherlocking those original sources? Or just adding your take on ideas being widely discussed? (And not at all interfering with someone else’s ad revenue. Or making their paywall superfluous.)
If we want to read anti-Apple slop, there’s still plenty of PC sites (and people) who will offer up an ample supply.
Do better.
You also say, "for every one of these examples, there’s something else that either has already used the ideas previously..." So what? Another app or service using an idea doesn't mean it and others can't lose marketshare because Apple has decided to add that functionality into their OS. In fact, it's the definition of Sherlocking.
No, you wouldn't say Apple Sherlocked the phone industry because that makes no sense. They are not the killing the phone industry as the phone industry is not a 3rd-party app or service that has grown out of void in Apple's ecosystem that Apple is now filling internally, like they did with Sherlock. The iPhone is simply a paradigm change to the smartphone market.
You also asked, "did AllTrals Sherlock map makers?" which tells me you really don't have a grasp of what this term means for Apple developers. Karelia Software has had it done twice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)#Sherlocked_as_a_term
Apple isn’t “killing” the market for trail apps. It’s adding functionality and competing. AllTrails has plenty of other functions, and ample opportunity to compete. If they substantially impact the market share of paper maps (or competitor’s apps), by your definition they’ve supplanted or obviated the features of another product.
You do understand that you live in an economic model where this type of logical enhancement not only happens all the time, but is encouraged, right? Particularly in disintermediation. No one at Apple is sitting down and saying to themselves “who can I bankrupt today”? You ascribe malicious motivation where there is none.
Karelia could have easily improved Watson into something like Alfred or Quicksilver. Both of which seem to have no trouble competing with Apple’s search or launcher. Instead, Dan Wood sold the tech to Sun. Karelia wasn’t driven out of business. It’s languished because it has sub-par products. (Site specific browsers weren't even a novel concept at the time. You sure didn’t bother reading the whole Wikipedia entry along with supporting material — just cherry-picked supporting opinions.)
As for the phone situation, I think Nokia, RIM, and Windows phone would beg to differ.
I think you said it best here with “Apple’s eco-system”. If you were to compare the amount of apps and services that Apple has enabled by building out technology that fills a void, or they have fostered through cooperation, to the amount allegedly driven out of business due to Apple’s actions (and solely their actions, not ineptness or changing markets), it would be a rounding error.So the article is fundamentally flawed in hyping up the odds that big bad Apple might come steal your lunch.It seems fashionable these days to flog issues that are statistical non-issues, but carry emotional weight and get people in a tizzy. It’s shitty journalism and fear-mongering.
“Sherlocking” is a buzzword perpetuated by lazy, self-entitled devs, businesses (who’d do the same thing to a competitor in a heart beat), and sloppy thinkers that regurgitate misplaced outrage that supports calcified preconceptions and bias. You see the same dynamic in Epic’s hypocritical and self-serving arguments over payment options.
But like all boogeyman, i’m sure the term will live on, helped along by propaganda like this article and your comments.
Think different, buddy. Think different.
PS - The fact that the author has to spend the first few paragraphs explicating the terms and the rationale behind the article is damning in and of itself. It’s actively arguing for both the concept and its continued extension into unrelated cases.
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Apps Apple Sherlocked at WWDC23 in iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma
Could we maybe stop perpetuating effing this b.s.?
I mean an app that doesn’t exist anymore? That's how far you need to reach for an example?
Topogrophy? Really? Have you even used AllTrails, do you really think that’s its core functionality? Did AllTrails Sherlock map makers?
For every one of these examples, there’s something else that either has already used the ideas previously in a different form OR is a feature of another app or operating system. Stop acting like using ideas is theft.
I mean, are we going to say Apple “sherlock’d” the phone industry because it took preexisting ideas and came out with a phone that competed with some of its partners (at the time)? How far back do we go with this?
Sometimes it's pretty clear AI is... let’s put it politely... repurposing content first reported elsewhere, and not always with attribution. Are you sherlocking those original sources? Or just adding your take on ideas being widely discussed? (And not at all interfering with someone else’s ad revenue. Or making their paywall superfluous.)
If we want to read anti-Apple slop, there’s still plenty of PC sites (and people) who will offer up an ample supply.
Do better.
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All the Apple subreddits set to go dark in protest of Reddit's API charges
No you really don’t. One could go down that rabbit hole endlessly. You’re just here to be a knob.ChrisSalvatore2003 said:Oh I get it, but the principle of what they "whomever" removed based on the fees Apple charges is hypocritical. Everyone need to make business changes, as such Reddit in this case. So yes Apple set a standard of high fees, and it should be OK for others to follow - fundamentally.
