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  • AirPower wireless charging pad allegedly stalled until spring by heat and interference iss...

    derekcurriederekcurrie
    Steve Jobs: "Real artists ship!"
    This is why Steve Jobs never (mostly) announced anything publicly before it was real and ready.

    Andy Hertzfeld:
    Real Artists Ship

    Shakespeare, Macbeth act 1, scene 7:
    "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only
    Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
    And falls on the other."
    badmonkmac_128

  • Verizon throttled California fire department's data as it fought wildfires

    derekcurriederekcurrie
    Verizon's customer support credibility: Zero.
    Oops, you abused the wrong customer. Now it's a meme.
    Q: What's more important? Coordinating citizen emergency services? Or abusing customers with bandwidth throttling?
    A: Throttling of course! It's the corporatocracy thing to do!

    Shameful.
    tmayolsdavgregbshankdoozydozendysamoria

  • Apple held secret meeting with developers in 2017 to push app subscriptions

    derekcurriederekcurrie
    If a service/app offers ongoing provision of new information/data/research etc., then subscription makes sense. If the service/app is simply static, occasionally updated software, then never does subscription make sense. For example, I'd never see any sense in subscribing to Microsoft Office 365 or Adobe Creative Suite/Cloud. They're dead to me. Instead, I am far happier with buying permanent licenses for equivalent software. That makes sense. I pay subscription fees for rolling media streaming services and news sources.

    Whether currently Apple gets this or not isn't clear. What is clear is that Apple is to blame for their own ridiculous concept that a user pays for an app once, then never again. If Apple bothered to take the time, there is NO reason an update fee system for significantly updated apps can't be instituted. They only have to DO it. Their reluctance is irrelevant. Apple is acting as a service and conscientious protector. They have no role to play as authoritarian dictators to the developers and customers they serve. If Apple is going the way of Fearless Leader overlord of all it surveys, they've driven their future off a cliff like so many corporatocracy clowns in our current era of parasitic biznizziz. Historically, Apple has striven to be the opposite of parasites.
    command_fwatto_cobra

  • Researchers find loophole that extends USB Restricted Mode's hour-long timer

    derekcurriederekcurrie
    ♬♬ Jonathan Zdziarski, where are you? ♪♪♩♩

    Are you wasting his time Apple? Isn't figuring out this stuff ahead of time the point of hiring security experts?
    cgWerks

  • Apple slapped with patent suit over Siri's natural language abilities

    derekcurriederekcurrie
    Problem: Apple doesn't own the speech recognition software used in Siri. It's owned by Nuance, derived from Dragon, licensed by Apple. Dragon's patents are far older than the patent troll's.

    The applicable part of Siri is database traversal and response technology. From what I can tell, that's not part of the lawsuit.

    Get lost patent troll.
    watto_cobra