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> "services" is where you still have growth. Cloud storage, music, video streaming Too bad Apple is still so, so very bad at this. Their services are barely fu

> "services" is where you still have growth. Cloud storage, music, video streaming Too bad Apple is still so, so very bad at this. Their services are barely functioning, at best, with multiple WTFs daily. When they work, they are not even magic. They are the bare minimum of what you expect them to do (like, for example, to quickly and correctly sync photos between me and my family).

WJW 4y ago
Well, seems like it would be relatively easy to make growth happen then. Imagine if Apple properly applied itself and brought the magic from the early iPhone to its cloud services.
- dmitriid 4y ago
  I would give them all the money then. And I'm only half-kidding.
- conradfr 4y ago
  Just need to resurrect Steve Jobs to belittle everyone until it's good.
BearOso 4y ago
Tim Cook said under oath that they don't need to differentiate themselves because they don't have to compete.
- ladyanita22 4y ago
  Sorry to bother you, but I read this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31101384 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31101384) and I was wondering myself: how did XP managed to have the transparent rounded corners? AFAIK, it doesn't use any compositing, yet the system is able to tell what should be "behind" the window to whatever that was in the transparent regions of the corners. The same thing applies (I guess) to the shadows of the right-click menus.
  - Jasper_ 4y ago
    The transparency is a 1-pixel mask bitmap. There's no partial blending required. Shadows of right click menus are different -- Windows actually had a secret, weird compositor ever since Windows 2000 called "layered windows", but the app has to be rewritten to use them.
    - ladyanita22 4y ago
      Thank you for your great explanation, it's super interesting. I read Raspbian has a patched openbox that has aliased rounded corners. I believ it uses this patch https://github.com/dylanaraps/openbox-patched https://github.com/dylanaraps/openbox-patched

WJW 4y ago

Well, seems like it would be relatively easy to make growth happen then. Imagine if Apple properly applied itself and brought the magic from the early iPhone to its cloud services.

dmitriid 4y ago
I would give them all the money then. And I'm only half-kidding.
conradfr 4y ago
Just need to resurrect Steve Jobs to belittle everyone until it's good.

BearOso 4y ago

Tim Cook said under oath that they don't need to differentiate themselves because they don't have to compete.

ladyanita22 4y ago
Sorry to bother you, but I read this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31101384 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31101384) and I was wondering myself: how did XP managed to have the transparent rounded corners? AFAIK, it doesn't use any compositing, yet the system is able to tell what should be "behind" the window to whatever that was in the transparent regions of the corners. The same thing applies (I guess) to the shadows of the right-click menus.
- Jasper_ 4y ago
  The transparency is a 1-pixel mask bitmap. There's no partial blending required. Shadows of right click menus are different -- Windows actually had a secret, weird compositor ever since Windows 2000 called "layered windows", but the app has to be rewritten to use them.
  - ladyanita22 4y ago
    Thank you for your great explanation, it's super interesting. I read Raspbian has a patched openbox that has aliased rounded corners. I believ it uses this patch https://github.com/dylanaraps/openbox-patched https://github.com/dylanaraps/openbox-patched