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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
They don’t need to do that. First, Adobe doesn’t see Affinity as meaningful competition. Adobe sees Figma and Canva (and Blackmagic and Avid in the NLE space) as competition, but a company doing £30m a year in revenue is barely a blip on th
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
>So it doesn't seem like they needed to sell. They probably didn’t need to sell (but who knows) but an offer of a buyout at a 20x multiple (based on the Bloomberg report) when the core business faces competition from Adobe and Can
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
The fake bags definitely have packaging. Fake documents, fake dust covers, fake Hermes boxes. They go all out in some cases. Usually not for the $30 hand bags sold on the street (though you’d be surprised as to the fake documents some of th
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
My colleagues at the GH Security Lab saw this and made this thread/response [1] I’ll paste: Why does GitHub Security Lab do research like @mmolgtm’s recent work on bypassing MTE on the Pixel 8? This question was asked on Hacker News an
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
The counterfeit/replica market for electronics, especially Apple stuff, has gotten really, really good. You often won't be able to easily tell just from the sealed box if it is a fake or not -- though opening usually offers some c
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
oh that is super cool! Yeah, Microsoft did the OS for Dreamcast so I guess it makes sense that there could have been an attempt to port the WebTV experience to the console. Also, this sent me down a rabbit hole that makes me want to try to
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
I never had a WebTV or MSN TV, but I always liked to watch the stupid infomercial, which I frequently did as a little kid. Then I got a Dreamcast, which had similar technology built in if you used the “internet” disc or whatever (I even had
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
From my past discussions with car executives (that are ~10 years old so grain of salt), I really do think it’s as simple as that recurring infotainment subscription revenue. The small margin GM gets on its cars is buffered by the revenue sp
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
> I wonder if in 20 years something from apples car project changes the industry in a way we never expected. Time will only tell. I hope so. That would be a great result, even if the consumer product didn’t land. That said, I would argue
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
Oh, this I could also see. Apple hates to partner with others, for the most part, which is why I don’t think that happened. And some of that is for good reason. The awfulness of the Motorola Rokr is what convinced Steve Jobs that Apple had
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
But I guess my question is, why would you bother with only making 4,000 cars a year, if you’re Apple? Especially if the initial cost of making that $100b market cap (which a solid iPhone quarter alone will net you) is more than $100b (not a
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
Cars are different both for sales and more importantly for support. Apple is best in class for a turnkey consumer experience. But if you’ve ever had to deal with Apple Care Enterprise, which is a lot more similar to the sort of support you
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
Good. This was an idea that never made any sense to me. It’s high overhead/low-margin and requires infrastructure, sales and after-sales support that just aren’t aligned with how Apple does business. It’s one thing to create a new car
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
Maybe. But in my experience, there are a lot of technical things that I value that the rest of my family just doesn’t. And losing access to things that I would consider priceless, others might just be happy to find workarounds for or recr
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
Yeah, I agree. I rolled my eyes when I bought the Studio Display because of the price (I got the VESA option so I also had to factor in $200 for an Ergotron LX just so I could use it the way I’d want) and I’m annoyed by its lack of power bu
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
> When iMessage launched as part of iOS 5, free unlimited SMS was still not a normal thing. It wasn’t universal on all wireless plans, for sure, but by 2011, in the U.S., it was definitely more common that at least for smartphone plans,
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
She is literally a co-founder of the project, foundation and corporation, was the original CEO of the corporation (before stepping down in 2008 before coming back in 2019 as CEO) and has been executive chairwoman of the board for both the f
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
I mean, if we're talking right now -- it absolutely has not. IDC predicts ~12 million AR/VR headset shipments in 2024, which is up 46% from 2023 (which was down 8.3% from 2022) but the Apple Watch, even though it had massive sales
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
>but I see Apple having no trouble selling as many as they can make. But right now, supply-chain analysts suggest that they can only make 160,000 or something this year. Apple could sell literal boxes of dog shit to 160,000 people, so I
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
Fitbit was a fitness tracker that later adopted more smartwatch features -- but things like Pebble (early 2013), Android Wear (now Wear OS) (spring 2014), Samsung's Galaxy Gear (fall 2013) all already existed. Now were any of them as g
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
I’m not at all convinced about the inevitable success of the Vision Pro (which I maintain is in its current form, a dev kit being marketed as a mass-consumer device), but this just isn’t true. To use a few examples that have happened after
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
14,000 out of their total number of employees is such a drop in the bucket though. If you can get hired as a Wal-Mart trucker, from what I understand, you're the best of the best. Also, consider there are like 3.5 million truck drivers
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
+1 to everything you say here. The store manager track is very much a Corporate vs Retail (hourly) thing at least at the big chains. I worked retail in high school and college in the same era as you mentioned and even 20 years ago, a store
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
Things like the PinePhone and the Librem 5 are cool on paper but if you can’t use it reliably as a phone, it can’t reliably work in standby, the camera sucks, the battery life is anemic, notifications suck, you can’t stream music from it, a
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
That already exists. It’s called Scalar[1] and it has been built-into Git since October 2022[2], dates back to 2020[3] and is the spiritual successor or something Microsoft was using as far back as 2017[4]. 1. https://git-scm.com
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
Yes and no. The Android Market was only a few months behind the App Store (paid apps took another year) but when Android started to take off, lots and lots of developers started to try to come to Android in a big way and some even experimen
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
> It's funny how on the desktop, Windows has more apps and developers generally target it before MacOS. I would say this is true for certain types of apps. Games, indisputably are Windows-first (and no matter what the Apple Game P
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
HoloLens is a different category but it’s also been almost exclusively B2B based since HoloLens 2, which usually means there is a different support structure. No idea on the current status of the project/product, however. * I used to w
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
I also learned HTML in 1996 (when I was also 12), in part from a cover story in I wanna say PC Magazine. I had a modem and had access to an unlimited AOL account thanks to my school’s computer lab teacher not doing a great job of hiding the
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by filmgirlcw 3y ago
Absolutely not. In Seattle, cyclists already abuse the sidewalks when there are dedicated bike lanes everywhere. And the cyclists on the sidewalks are the worst of the worst who will plow over pedestrians without even pausing. No fucking th

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