jclardy

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by jclardy 7y ago
I agree with your thoughts on siloing being a poor decision by Apple, but I see nothing here that couldn’t already be done all on device using existing APIs. Apple already added drag & drop between apps, you can drag text/images fr
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by jclardy 8y ago
I'm hoping this is what happens in the next redesign which should be coming soon. The iPad Pro already went for a flat edge design, so hopefully that gets carried over to the MBP.
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by jclardy 8y ago
More than that, I hate that they got rid of the charge indicator on the cable, which they easily could have kept even with USB-C charging. The old-old MacBooks with the 5 dot battery indicator were awesome, I hate having to pick up my lapto
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by jclardy 8y ago
There is interest, so you'd still be locked in the cycle. Just a little better off because they don't charge you $30-50 for paying late. But it appears they are much more forward on telling you how much interest you will be paying
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by jclardy 8y ago
I think the confusion on charging comes in with the case - you "charge" the airpods by keeping them together in the case. You charge the case by plugging it in. The case has about 24 hours of battery, so I charge the case about on
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by jclardy 8y ago
But this is missing the other problem AirPods solve, a problem created by Apple and other tech giants - the now missing standard 3.5mm jack. I have a laptop, desktop, iPad and iPhone - for wired I would need USB-C->3.5mm, Lightning->3
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by jclardy 8y ago
I've used mine everyday since launch, so a little over two years. They now only hold a charge for about 45 minutes, so I end up doing one ear at a time for longer voip meetings. The case held up fine, I charge that like once every two
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by jclardy 8y ago
> I wouldn't have upgraded and I know for a fact there is really no difference after using it for several months. No difference between what? X and XS? Sure. But in the same way that there is “no difference” between 6/6s, 7&#x2
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by jclardy 8y ago
I agree. For me it isn’t even that - if an app can save me 5 minutes of time per week it is easily worth $5. Or if it is an app I use every day, if the experience is that much better it is worth the subscription to me.
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by jclardy 8y ago
They are listing in-app purchases directly through the app store. My guess is they did get some kind of deal though (Like the supposed 15% deal that Netflix had before they pulled their IAPs.)
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by jclardy 8y ago
As a dev who works on a fairly large app with an in-app subscription, we are the ones that get a ton of support requests, even having the unsubscribe link in our own settings. The problem is a huge percentage of users assume deleting the ap
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by jclardy 8y ago
This is what I am wondering. The process at my company is a personal interview, coding challenge, then technical interview. So essentially about 4 hours of time. What makes this different from a company that wants 4 interviews from differen
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by jclardy 8y ago
Same here. Especially with the new hardware from this year. Apple puts a ton of engineering into these new iOS devices, a little sad that the Mac lines don't really get the same treatment. I feel we are insanely close to this reality t
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by jclardy 8y ago
I don't think VR is ever going to reach that point, just because our eyes are too important. Very few people would be comfortable putting a VR headset on while commuting on a subway or bus - because you lose all awareness of your surro
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by jclardy 8y ago
Actually just one. ARKit works on nearly every iOS device since the iPhone 6S.
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by jclardy 8y ago
Only works on iOS 12.
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by jclardy 8y ago
I think the biggest problem comes from supporting external displays. For me to fully swap to iOS as a development platform (ignoring missing software currently) I would need to be able to plug into a larger display at some point, and have a
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by jclardy 8y ago
This plus the rumor of USB-C replacing lightning on the iPad - there is supposedly much more external display support in the next iOS beta. External screens as an extension don't really work without some kind of cursor - iOS already su
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by jclardy 8y ago
That is just three wireless chargers stacked next to each other. Apple's design was to have no required orientation or position, just drop it wherever on the mat, along with whatever other devices.
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by jclardy 8y ago
Exactly. I was looking for a waterproof iPhone case. Finding a "reputable" brand on Amazon is near impossible now - their search results bring up pages and pages of the same rebranded knockoffs. Any camera or electronics gear I or
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by jclardy 8y ago
My first thought when reading the "suddenly stopped" quote is that it was probably at a stop light or sign, and the car actually stopped as directed by the law, then proceeded to move forward to turn, versus the progressive rollin
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by jclardy 8y ago
Do most places in NZ have indoor smoking bans? Many cities in the US have made it so smokers have to be outside, and a certain number of feet away from business entrances.
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by jclardy 8y ago
I think the problem is that doing what you said is insanely difficult. Look at the Essential phone for a recent example.
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by jclardy 8y ago
I think the gain is in footprint size and noise levels. I have a Sonnet eGPU box, and it is pretty massive, nearly the size of a microATX case. It also has a fan on the box and the fan of the GPU cooler itself. This design looks a lot small
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by jclardy 8y ago
From 2015 to 2016 models the battery capacity dropped from 74 watt hours to 49 watt hours in the new 13" design. The gap was made up for by efficiency gains of the CPU and possibly the display. But the display can also be cranked way b
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by jclardy 8y ago
Just to note because it is non-obvious and not documented - both volume and brightness buttons are one touch. You can just tap and drag up/down to immediately adjust, and you don't have to tap, move over to the slider, tap again,
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by jclardy 8y ago
Yeah, that is the issue. A keyboard replacement means replacing both battery and keyboard because they are glued together. But I have heard that they were replacing older keyboards (2016) with 2017 models (You could easily tell because they
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by jclardy 8y ago
So I use a lot of different keyboards - my main ones are a whitefox with blue switches and a CODE with greens. I actually like the MBP keyboard - key stability and clickiness are the parameters I like, and the MBP has both. My problem with
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by jclardy 8y ago
This doesn't seem to compare the actual number of marriages happening in these decades - my guess is that fewer people are getting married and/or they are marrying later in life. Meaning people aren't pursuing marriage just b
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by jclardy 8y ago
I have a 5k iMac. No real complaints with it, although the design is pretty dated with its massive bezels and huge chin. Compute-wise it serves its purpose for me, good performance for an all-in-one.

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