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  • Initial failures of Apple's butterfly keyboard doomed it from the start

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    I’ll go to my grave thinking this was intended as a stepping stone. To condition us to some kind of dual screen device where the “keyboard” side had an advanced haptic engine in it.
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  • How Apple owes everything to its 1977 Apple II computer

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    Fatman said:
    Always wanted a IIe, too expensive, went with a Commodore 64 - a tremendous value with great integrated graphics and sound for the time ... tons of software ... apparently Commodore sold 15 million of them.
    We started with a Vic 20. I wanted an Apple so bad because that’s what we had in school. For obvious reasons the Vic was soon replaced with a 64. At least Commodore did it right. All of the accessories; printer, Data-cassette, and 300 baud Vicmodem, worked on the 64.
    sgordon said:
    Not all those first were first... commodore pet had basic in rom and was released before the Apple II
    Came here to say the same. People forget what a competitor Commodore was back in the day. 

    Unfortunately they sat too long on the success of the 64 before moving on to the Amiga. Makes you wonder what the computer landscape would look like now if Commodore management and investors were as smart as Steve who knew it was time to move on to a new platform. A lot of the early CGI you see in early 80’s shows and movies was done on Amiga’s. They owned that market at one time.
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  • Elon Musk uses iPhone email bug to illustrate the importance of software innovation

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    cgWerks said:
    tmay said:
    The Taycan was the first indication that you should not have any worries, as it actually has a two speed transmission. Ford has already sold out its first year/50,000 unit Mustang Mach E, and there is a project with Rivian for an F-150 EV, plus of course the Rivian R1T Pickup and R1S SUV coming later this year.

    Elon pushed Autopilot because he needed to increase his margins, and wow the tech crowd, but there are likely huge legal liabilities from the fact that Autopilot was in fact not close to being autonomous.
    Yeah, I haven't looked at those vehicles enough as I'm not the target market, but that sounds good.

    I hope the liabilities catch up with Elon, but so far, it seems the government and such agencies are quite all-in on the autonomous thing. Unless they better understand it, he could probably just give them his sci-fi pitch, and they'd believe it.

    digitol said:
    ... Apple fails to make software or hardware anywhere near complex enough to handle use in most mission critical industries; i.e. medical, flight, automobiles. Tesla by contrast does this in spades. 
    You missed the part about running people into semi trucks and highway dividers, apparently?

    GeorgeBMac said:
    You may be over focusing on self driving cars --  which are being held back by government regulations.   If he were allowed to Musk would, I am sure, have already moved ahead.   Plus, he is developing MUCH more than just self driving cars.   As for fatalities, my understanding is that even in these early stages, self driving cars have a better safety record than human driven cars.
    Yeah, I'm sure Musk would go even more wild than he has if he weren't being held back a bit (which isn't very much), given the claims he has made. He couldn't care less how many people die to achieve his dreams, I guess. (Should we mention he's been completely wrong so far on his projections about where the tech capabilities are at?)

    I wish I could find the article, but no, they aren't already better than human drivers in terms of safety. You're being tricked by the media hype. Basically, human drivers have a fatality about one every 100 million miles. We don't know about AI cars, as they haven't driven that much yet, and certainly not under conditions the average human deals with.

    Here is one study that talks about it a bit: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1478.html
    Exactly One thing the media leaves out is how many of those human driver fatalities are from driving in bad weather? I’d wager to say a very high percentage. How many autopilot miles have Tesla’s logged driving in blizzards and downpours? Considering where most of them are sold I’m going to say not many.
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  • Apple will miss quarterly guidance & iPhone sales estimates because of coronavirus

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    lkrupp said:
    k2kw said:
    tmay said:
    This is an important statement to make at this time, not just for financial reasons, but to acknowledge that Apple will be acting with appropriate caution in reopening its retail and manufacturing operations in China.
    This just shows that Cook should have diversified the Apple Assembly supply chain years ago.   
    Fire Cook, right? Shove your anti-Cook drivel. If Cook didn't diversify then neither did any other manufacturer. Cook has long been acknowledged as the supply chain guru of gurus. 
    Have to be honest. You two pretty much said the same thing, and I agree with both of you.
    lkrupp

  • Ricky Gervais roasts Apple as Golden Globes snub 'The Morning Show'

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    larryjw said:

    Football players weekly put their health and bodies on the line for our pleasure. They do so publicly and often endure criticism from nobodies who never worked that hard in their life. 
    LOL, there isn’t a football player out there that cares about your pleasure. At one time it was about winning a championship, then in the era of free agency it became about personal bank statements. In the era of social media it’s about their personal brand.

    They get criticized. Boo boo, cry me a river. You play a sport you get criticized. That’s the way it works. I coach and play hockey and live that almost every day. Certainly after every game.
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