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by kick 6y ago
All of the Watch features feel like they're aimed at a significantly younger demographic than the rest.
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by kick 6y ago
"You all have trouble sleeping so we're going to make your phone teach you yoga and meditation" is a very weird thing to do automatically instead of just blue-light reduction (which they already have a feature for) seems weir
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by kick 6y ago
They also (seemingly) said you could transfer it to others or disable it without your phone via iCloud, so I'm skeptic.
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by kick 6y ago
Something probably unintentional that they're highlighting with this particular presentation style (frequent female presenters, infrequent male presenters) is that seemingly every role that they require someone in a position of power t
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by kick 6y ago
Next in "Are we getting trolled?": they're doing an entire segment on AirPods.
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by kick 6y ago
'Draw into any text field and OCR it' is another instance of bikeshedding but I can't help but feel impressed by it.
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by kick 6y ago
'Universal Search' seems to be a clone of Spotlight, now on iPad. Interesting.
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by kick 6y ago
iPad Siri literally copies those web chatbots you see everywhere now, design-wise; bottom right corner, larger-than-necessary circle.
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by kick 6y ago
Forced requirement of <10mb, so it's actually more like gopher than it is modern web pages, but given the max is still 10mb, it's...not exactly wonderful.
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by kick 6y ago
iPad improvements are interesting; I can't think of any other product that started with so much potential but was completely fumbled in the same way.
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by kick 6y ago
"Allow Apple to control who can unlock your car" seems to very quickly lead to "Congratulations, law enforcement will literally never knock, ask or notify when breaking into your car going into the future." I could just
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by kick 6y ago
As a whole, this WWDC feels like Bikeshedding, Billions of Dollars of Technical Investment Edition.
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by kick 6y ago
What is it with every messaging platform/app becoming reddit-style lately? First twitter did it, then a bunch of sites copied that, now Apple's messaging app is shifting to it? Weird! I think it's probably a good thing, but i
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by kick 6y ago
What you "think" is literally entirely against the reason Section 230 exists.
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by kick 6y ago
What use case is there for Apple devices that cannot be fulfilled by other brands? Literally none.
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by kick 6y ago
Nor does Apple: you can have as many PWAs as you want. As JS is Turing complete, you can then have every sort of app. They've always encouraged PWAs. Unless you want to legally force every company to surrender their source code (which
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by kick 6y ago
FYI, your account seems to have triggered the system that hellbans new accounts. I vouched for your comment (which revived it), and I sent a message to hn@yc to point out that it looks like there was a false-positive. Your last few comments
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by kick 6y ago
Sure, and Frigidaire has a monopoly on Frigidaire refrigerators. I said legally-justifiable antitrust claims. Apple has a minority of the smartphone market. You can make anything into a "monopoly" if you define it narrowly enough
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by kick 6y ago
They do get to say that. Apple has a minority of the market and wouldn't run into legally-justifiable antitrust problems.
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by kick 6y ago
Calibre strips Amazon's DRM and most book reading software supports you fetching books directly from Calibre.
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by kick 6y ago
First objection: He has tenure. Getting fired is very hard when you have tenure. As a tenured professor you can scream for years that the sky is neon green and you'll be fine. Secondly, he doesn't particularly discuss it with resp
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by kick 6y ago
Personally I don't think any of this is particularly related to "dangerous questions," but you do you I guess. In which he downplays racial bias in police shootings: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2020/06&
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The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (1998)(archive.org)
160 points by kick 6y ago|34 comments
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DeCSS Haiku(en.wikipedia.org)
85 points by kick 6y ago|8 comments
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by kick 6y ago
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/musickitjs MusicKit JS lets users play songs from Apple Music and their Cloud Library inside your JavaScript app. When a user provides permission to access their Apple Music ac
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by kick 6y ago
It gets worse. Google what IBM did for a certain country in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s (yes, after the invasion of Poland).
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by kick 6y ago
IMAP support is completely pointless for most people, but most people like privacy, and most people have to use email.
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by kick 6y ago
I was talking about the people who read interviews like this looking for wisdom on "productivity" rather than Andreessen.
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by kick 6y ago
This isn't true and was never true; currently don't have time to point out why it's not true but I will get to it as soon as possible.
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by kick 6y ago
The cult of MBAs pretending to be hackers believes that success is entirely self-determined and self-controlled; if they just rearranged their Rolodex and pulled their $300 hoodie strings slightly differently they'd surely become billi

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