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This is what Snazzy Labs said about Beeper Mini... hilarious: > This doesn't appear to be some easy thing Apple can just turn off. > It will require a complet
by KomoD 3y ago
This is what Snazzy Labs said about Beeper Mini... hilarious:
> This doesn't appear to be some easy thing Apple can just turn off.
> It will require a complete redesign of their entire authentication and delivery strategy for not just iMessage but Apple ID account access as a whole.
- znpy 3y agoThe guy is a fine youtuber but i think he was talking about stuff outside of his area of competence wrt to this specific matter.
- IMTDb 3y agoUsually the correct course of action is to just... say nothing then ? Or at least take some caution. But hey, it makes for a less sensationalist headline. The thing is that trustworthiness is typically something you look for in a reviewer, clearly not something that can be found there.
- acherion 3y agoSay nothing? They can't do that, what else are they going to talk about in the next video that they have to release to appease the Youtube Algorithm?! /s obviously!
- znpy 3y ago> Usually the correct course of action is to just... say nothing then ? literally yes, that is the correct course of action. the issue is that you cannot publish videos and make money if you refrain from talking about stuff you don't really understand. which is one of the problems with modern society, in general.
- aaomidi 3y agoTo be fair, this could be a heuristic based ban which wouldn’t be too hard to bypass. It’ll be interesting if beeper mini ends up bypassing it.
- dagmx 3y agoThis is why people shouldn’t listen to tech YouTubers who don’t actually work in tech as engineers. They’re tech fans, not experts but act like they know the domain space enough to make strong authoritative claims since that’s what gives them an audience.
- ShamelessC 3y agoThere were a number of similar comments on HN when they announced. The real lesson? The internet is a shit show.
- twodave 3y agoI don’t know about you, but I’ve worked with plenty of “engineers” who can’t even properly read a stack trace. Not meaning to offend, most software developers are unable to reason about a system even as straightforward as a messaging client with accuracy, especially a closed source one.
- sbuk 3y agoThis is true, we see it anytime a discussion around email comes up.
- dagmx 3y agoTrue, but there’s a difference in seeing a random anonymous account parroting things and someone with a following pushing it. Honestly many people here, myself too probably at points, tend to just repeat what they’ve heard elsewhere as fact. You can see it if you try and notice phrasing patterns repeating. My real lesson is less that the internet is a shit show (it is though), and more that people like to take a very strong opinion as fact, over a more nuanced opinion that requires understanding of a topic.
- wildrhythms 3y agoThe bar for 'tech journalist' is... none. There is no bar.
- prvc 3y agoOr for any kind of journalist.