MBCook

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781.
by MBCook 10mo ago
The Ultra isn’t always faster. Apple’s spotty record on the Ultras (they haven’t released one every generation) makes things harder for comparisons without looking at benchmarks.
782.
by MBCook 10mo ago
The Apple Card has a lot of sub-prime borrowers because Apple pushed to approve almost everyone. Plus Apple had things structured for fewer fees to be charged than normal cards for late payments, foreign transactions, etc. That combination
783.
by MBCook 10mo ago
The savings accounts are through GS as well. The transition page basically says “nothing to announce yet”, in a way that implies they may move somewhere as well.
784.
by MBCook 10mo ago
It’s today’s 3D TVs. It’s something investors got all hyped up about that everybody “has to have“. There is useful functionality there. Apple has had it for years, so have others. But at the time they weren’t calling it “AI“ because that wa
785.
by MBCook 10mo ago
I’m not sure I hear people call MacOS X 10.10 “ten ten ten”. I think I remember them calling it “ten ten” verbally. So you’d say “MacOS ten ten”. At least that’s what I’m used to, it is entirely possible that’s what other people said and yo
786.
by MBCook 10mo ago
I’m not saying it’s a smart use of space. Just that it absolutely happens.
787.
by MBCook 10mo ago
Apps like that often contain (many?) short high resolution videos to show how to do an initial connection or something that can take up a ton of space. Gmail has no such excuse.
788.
by MBCook 10mo ago
Right. MacOS X was the marketing name. But it was pronounced 10, just a stylization with Roman numerals. The version number the OS reported always said 10.whatever. Exactly as you said.
789.
by MBCook 10mo ago
Wasn’t built in OCR an amazing feature? We probably could have done it years earlier. But when it showed up… wow.
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by MBCook 10mo ago
I can’t comment on that. But at least you always know an A7 is better than an A6 or an A4. The M4 is better than the M3 and M1. The suffixes make it more complicated, but at least within a suffix group the rule still holds.
791.
by MBCook 10mo ago
Don’t bigger batteries allow faster charging because they can absorb current faster? Perhaps the problem is the size of the battery being limited in a motorcycle.
792.
by MBCook 10mo ago
That’s true. You’d have to be a little picky. I know you can plug in a KB and mouse but… why? Still there are a huge number of games from indies or small publishers that may not make it to console but would still work fantastically with a c
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by MBCook 10mo ago
> Several of my friends own Steam Decks which is pretty wild to me given they are just normie gamers. I would say that’s absolutely the most normal gamer way of playing PC games. As someone who is mostly given up on playing games on a co
794.
by MBCook 10mo ago
Wasn’t it mandated for 4G? Or at least 5G?
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by MBCook 10mo ago
> at least 75% of the Internet traffic is IPv6. > Nobody cares about [that]. What matters is if my device has an IPv6 address assigned. This seems to be the weird dichotomy in these comments. Some people are arguing from the position
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by MBCook 10mo ago
It was? Isn’t it what all the cell phones networks use these days? And most ISP’s? They may hand the end user device a IPv4 address but don’t they actually use IPv6?
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by MBCook 10mo ago
We all think of them as Google but let’s face it, they’re DoubleClick. Google feeds DoubleClick. Gmail does too. YouTube is a pure ad play. Drive/Docs/etc. I’d say drives Chrome and undercuts competitors. And Chrome? It drives Goo
798.
by MBCook 10mo ago
I love Safari. I’ve used it since the day I bought a Mac not long after it was released. Back when they still bundled IE 5.5. I don’t think they can compete. Apple doesn’t release Safari on Windows (any more, god it was bad) and that basi
799.
by MBCook 10mo ago
I think that would’ve good. But… 1. The US isn’t doing this. They have a case but aren’t calling for breakup 2. We all know howling anti-trust and appeals take If Google gets handed the web (let’s say) this year by Apple being forced to all
800.
by MBCook 10mo ago
Do you see them doing that on a short term? The best I saw was the case against Google in the US and they decided not to call for breakup. I don’t see the EU trying to unbundle everything they do.
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by MBCook 10mo ago
> They don’t make their software available to anyone who isn’t using Apple’s hardware. Why should they? When did this become a rule? If Atari survived would they be required to make Windows software? Be? Commodore? Where/why does&#x
802.
by MBCook 10mo ago
We are helpless now in the near term . It’s not trolling. What can we do in the next two years (let’s say) that would accomplish both letting other browsers on iOS and preventing Chrome from taking over everywhere? I don’t know of anot
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by MBCook 10mo ago
I would argue that the root of the problem is that Google was not broken up. I don’t think one company should own all the stuff that Google does. It gives them way too many perverse incentives over the web. I’m not saying it’s smart we got
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by MBCook 10mo ago
Microsoft didn’t control the number one search engine, the number one email client, the number one video site, probably the number one online office suite, the number one smartphone platform… It was possible to rip people away from Microsof
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by MBCook 10mo ago
And it’s trying to get them to run away as fast as possible. Firefox is not going to save us again. It’s arguably part of the problem in a different way.
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by MBCook 10mo ago
It’s INCREDIBLY rare I see that. Phone or desktop, lots of surfing, all day long, for two decades.
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by MBCook 10mo ago
Or just get buggy. I have absolutely run into sites that work on mobile Safari but not on desktop Safari. Because they don’t test it and don’t care. You HAVE to use Chrome or possibly Firefox. We’ve always seen what Firefox is doing, they’r
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by MBCook 10mo ago
That’s what should have happened long ago. As far as I can see there are only two possibilities on any kind of near term: Apple can lock Google and everyone else out, or Google can take over the web fully. Those appear to be our only choi
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by MBCook 10mo ago
It was the default on the Mac and it’s nowhere near the most popular there. Google pushes Chrome HARD.
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by MBCook 10mo ago
I’m not going to say I think Apple should be able to lock out competing browsers, I know this is going to happen. But God I don’t want this. The iPhone is basically the only thing stopping a total Chrome/Chromium hegemony from ruling t

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