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Apple hid a secret message in its latest YouTube video
- rasse 7y agoInstead of rapid firing spacebar to catch the frame, you can use [.] and [,] to advance and go back a single frame when paused.
- cyberferret 7y agoThis was my biggest takeaway from that article. As someone who like to dissect guitar instructional videos on YT, I wish I had known this earlier!
- King-Aaron 7y ago2X faster than the 'best selling PC' What then is the 'best selling PC'?
- erk__ 7y agoThe raspberry pi of course.
- King-Aaron 7y agoI was going to suggest the Commodore64, which I'd hope would be at minimum twice as slow as an iPad
- saagarjha 7y agoProbably a $500 HP laptop that Best Buy puts the most discount stickers on.
- raverbashing 7y agoAnd the most crapware (that takes a bit off the price) on as well
- diebeforei485 7y agoWhich is pretty good considering this iPad is $329.
- benj111 7y agoWhat's the market like for low end laptops? I'd expect the big retailers to get their own 'exclusive' skus to prevent price matching etc.
- dannyw 7y agoNah. HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer, etc make cheap laptops. They usually have the cheapest components, slow eMMC as storage and no HDD or SSD, and come with the locked down version of Windows 10 S where you have to use IE, Bing, and can’t install apps outside of the windows store. I believe Microsoft actually pays OEMs for the S version, instead charging. Technical users can opt out of S but it’s not obvious and I think comes with warning signs that mislead average Joes think their warranty will be void if they do that.
- benj111 7y agoMy point was that if each retailer has their own unique skus, no one cheap laptop would end up achieving high sales.
- mjlee 7y agoTheir claim refers to the top selling PC laptop in the USA during the first half of 2019. Not sure what exactly it is - on Amazon the best seller is the Acer Aspire 5.
- martin_a 7y ago> Their claim refers to the top selling PC laptop in the USA during the first half of 2019. What a broken metric. But yeah, it's hard to keep up with those superlative narration if you broaden your metrics.
- romanovcode 7y agoI also didn't get it. What exactly is this PC they are talking about?
- teddyh 7y agoExtracted from meaningless fluff article: The fake blue-screen in the Apple video is: Error 09102019 This is just a thought. But it might be nice to have some sort of easter egg message in here for the hard core Apple fans that will stop the video. 01010011 01101111 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110100 01101111 01101111 01101011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00111111 00100000 01010111 01100101 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00101110 The binary encoded message reads: > So you took the time to translate this? We love you.
- trevyn 7y agoThat’s about as corporate-speak blasé as you can get for a hidden message. Impressive work.
- holy_city 7y agoI was hoping it would be 0101100101. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4TPlwwHM8Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4TPlwwHM8Q
- Fricken 7y agoBe sure to drink your Ovaltine https://youtu.be/zdA__2tKoIU https://youtu.be/zdA__2tKoIU
- dzhiurgis 7y agoOh the irony. Closing that video got Safari into some weird headless mode that doesn't show tab content. This bug has been around for 2-3 years (usually when you have ~100 tabs open and close playing videos). https://imgur.com/a/x9qP4uv https://imgur.com/a/x9qP4uv
- londons_explore 7y ago
- vekker 7y agoDespite how much I love technology and innovation, that 2 minute video made me a bit nauseous. It reminded me of the last part of the Koyaanisqatsi movie.
- duncanawoods 7y agoI do love Koyaanisqatsi. The last part is so tragic and poignant that I'm not really feeling that as a comparison. For those who don't know, this is where the music for the Dr. Manhattan origin sequence in The Watchmen comes from. Works even better here though. Instead, for me, that apple video is a good match for the middle section i.e. breathless human industry and I think it is sorely missing the end sequence to reveal that this industriousness has forgotten something important. It is empty, futile and ignorant and will return to dust.
- temptemptemp111 7y agoBS... i in gematria = 9, Phone version 11... And on 9/11, not 9/10. For $999. Numerologists think they're so clever. It is annoying. T. Boone dies at 91. Melania is wearing a dress with a literal picture of a plane crashing into a building on it... Dozens more. Satanic materialists are such losers.
- mosselman 7y agoYesterday evening I had Friends on and saw the following scene of which I was reminded when I read this 'article': https://youtu.be/agtJ6M0cj4M?t=16 https://youtu.be/agtJ6M0cj4M?t=16
- gadders 7y ago"Steve, sorry the new phone is so ugly. Please forgive us."
- gchokov 7y agoUlgy to some, beautiful to others. I am from the latter.
- gadders 7y agoDo really think so? I mean it's not completely awful, but I don't think Steve Jobs would have liked the camera cluster that looks like it has just been stuck on the back.
- sdan 7y ago+1 this. They literally put a camera bump on top of a camera bump. I'd imagine in 2019 they'd at least have no camera bump like the revolutionary iPhone 4/5 design? I love my SE for that reason primarily (not to mention form factor).
- rimliu 7y agoFrom what I saw on reddit it looks much nicer in person.
- gchokov 7y agoThis has never bothered me.. I always have a case, which evens out the back surface. I'd get the small camera bump for good photos. I realize that this may not be acceptable by everyone, so speaking more as a personal choice. I love the design of iPhone 4 with this gorgeous glass too.
- dannyw 7y agoHow about a phone that’s 2mm thicker, comes with 30% longer battery life, and no humps?
- kaycebasques 7y agoCool idea. I personally found the meaning of the hidden binary message a bit of a letdown.
- 1011_1101 7y agoEven as binary aficionado I have to say this "secret" message is pretty weak.
- cyberferret 7y agoIt can be tricky to fit a meaningful message in a limited space. We had a hidden easter egg of the blog post header images of our blog at one stage. The background of the header image was an IBM punched card, with the message "<Our SaaS App Name> is the greatest HR app for small businesses" (or something like that) punched out. Given the non techie audience of our app and blog, nobody detected the hidden message, much less decoded it in the 12 months we had them up there. We've since changed the header graphic style to something completely different.
- onion2k 7y agoMy favourite easter egg of all time is in the brilliant BBC scifi comedy series Red Dwarf. In one episode the team end up in a dimension where everything is backwards. If you take one of the backwards sections and play it forwards there's a great easter egg... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNWGcYcBklE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNWGcYcBklE (first part is backwards, second is the same scene forwards).
- martin-adams 7y agoYep, I remember recording and reversing the audio from that when I was a kid. I recall being slightly offended
- IronBacon 7y agoSlightly related, but I'm only aware of Gstreamer based video players that allow reverse playback: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/tutorials/basic/playback-speed.html?gi-language=c https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/tutorials/ba... Gnome Totem video player, at least last time I tried, could play a video with audio backward after pressing the comma key, it's an hidden feature as it wasn't mentioned in its keyboard shortcut page...
- bechampion 7y agoThey should express their love to tech people openning up osx instead of these lame attempts.
- nullc 7y agoThere was a binary background in Silicon Valley season 5 episode 5, I paused it and spent a couple seconds decoding the first letter. Moments after I said it, my SO read out the entire message. I had no idea she knew how to do that, much less do so in freeking real time.
- grenoire 7y agoShe probably saw it/had translated it beforehand. Not a bad prank.
- nullc 7y agoI thought this was a really good point, but it doesn't seem like the sort of prank that she'd make. So I printed out "01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100100 01101111 01110010 01101011". It took slightly longer than I recalled, but she read it again pretty much right away (and also responded asking if this was news to anyone). I think this just goes into the totally useless superpowers category.
- IronBacon 7y agoI think it was in the Silicon Valley series where one of the t-shirt had a print in binary ASCII with 'bitcoin' in it, don't recall the episode right now... I didn't translate it real time tho, man ascii and a couple of minutes... ^__^;
- delfinom 7y ago>The frames jab at the classic Blue Screen of Death that you might see when something goes real wrong on a Windows computer You know Apple is a cult when they bring up the BSoD which doesn't exist for 4 years now. Now you get the Sad Face of Death.