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by lapcat 1y ago
> the far left would say that both parties are the same This is a hyperbole. The two parties are not exactly the same, though they are the same on a number of issues, such as support for the military-industrial complex and Israel. Here&#
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by lapcat 1y ago
It's indisputable that glossy displays have advantages over matte displays. It's also indisputable that matte displays have advantages over glossy displays, most importantly, fewer reflections of ambient light. The choice is a tra
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by lapcat 1y ago
The OP was referring to dollar sales, not unit sales. Apple no longer announces unit sales. In any case, it has always been true that Mac Average Selling Price is much higher than iPad Average Selling Price. In the sense of unit sales, iP
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by lapcat 1y ago
> In this thread I am sharing only my honest beliefs and perspectives That's one of the reasons I object to the term. People often use "devil's advocate" to state their opinions while providing plausible deniability i
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by lapcat 1y ago
> It's worth being open to other perspectives. There's a big difference between listening to other perspectives and inventing other perspectives. Why not let the believers of other perspectives argue for those perspectives?
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Was just making an actual devil's advocate case. Why? We're not nominating a saint or electing a Pope. If someone has a certain opinion, they're free to argue it here. There's no need to invent imaginary opinions an
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by lapcat 1y ago
The PowerBook and the first MacBook Pro were only matte. A glossy option was introduced in 2006, but the MacBook Pro was still matte by default. In 2008, the MacBook Pro case was redesigned, and then the display situation changed significan
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by lapcat 1y ago
> It's classic Apple to spend over a decade insisting that that glossy screens were the best option I don't recall Apple ever "insisting" anything about glossy vs. matte. They simply eliminated the matte option withou
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Because that's the same domain. You're again mistakenly thinking of trademark law. Toni Iommi is not a product but a person whose name is not trademarked. He doesn't have a "domain". He just happens to be famou
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by lapcat 1y ago
"The song's title, "777-9311", was Prince guitarist Dez Dickerson's actual telephone number at the time the song was written. Once the song became a hit, the phone calls started coming in, and Dickerson ended up hav
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by lapcat 1y ago
No, iPad is not bigger than Mac. It's smaller. Look again at the numbers.
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by lapcat 1y ago
I think your conclusion is also wrong. iPad sales are flat, and wearables are actually declining: (Wearables, home, and accessories already surpassed Mac sales, although I don't know what exactly is included in accessories.) Also, I do
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by lapcat 1y ago
These are the wrong numbers. You posted the 2024 numbers, not the 2025 numbers. 2025: iPhone $209.586 billion, Mac $33.708 billion, iPad $28.023 billion, Wearables, Home and Accessories $35.686 billion, Services $109.158 billion, Total $416
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by lapcat 1y ago
This stuck out like a sore thumb to me: Q4 2024: Income before provision for income taxes $29.610 billion, Provision for income taxes $14.874 billion Q4 2025: Income before provision for income taxes $32.804 billion, Provision for income ta
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I'm not following how or why a big deal is being made out of this. It's not a "big deal". The author and his project will very likely not even be noticed by Mr. Iommi and his legal representatives. I just made a com
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by lapcat 1y ago
Why not? After all, he's promoting a perfume: https://www.nordstrom.com/s/tony-iommi-monkey-special-parfum...
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by lapcat 1y ago
Already addressed in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45758830
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> So that means that the only way that you can absolutely associate the project with Tony Iommi is the post in which the author says that it has nothing to do with Tony Iommi other than he's a guitarist like Django Reinhardt? No, ev
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by lapcat 1y ago
The US population grew by almost 100 million over 30 years, so anything that people do, such as drive cars, is going to increase along with an increase in the number of people. The neighborhood in which I now live did not exist when I was a
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by lapcat 1y ago
The issue is that Tony Iommi is a live person, so using his name can give the impression that he endorses or is in some way associated with the product. Django Reinhardt died in 1953 and thus cannot endorse a product 50 years later. Monty P
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by lapcat 1y ago
I didn't say it's trademark violation. A person's name is not a trademark. It's about using someone's name to promote a product that the person is not associated with in any way. Iommi is not the name of a band. The
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I mean.. there are a lot of people with that name What are you saying here? You already admitted publicy that it was about Tony Iommi the guitarist of Black Sabbath and not anyone else with the name. > it's an homage Which of
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by lapcat 1y ago
It seems of questionable legality to blatantly use his name for your product.
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You can rest assured that professional App Store developers have enrolled.
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> Well, it's a $5 app on the App Store. ~$3.20 will go towards paying the indie dev, and most of the remaining ~$1.50 will go directly into Apple's coffers as a reward for doing such a good job locking down their operating syst
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I wonder what iOS Edge does which iOS Safari doesn't do, considering both are just UIs over WebKit... "just" is not an appropriate word here. There's a ton of functionality in the native UI and non-WebKit code.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I believe that the WebExtensions API is more powerful in the sense that it allows more complex blocking rules. This is not really accurate. The Safari content blocking API and the WebExtensions DeclarativeNetRequest API are comparable.
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by lapcat 1y ago
Ah yes, I see in the release notes, "Rebuilt with WebExtension technology for improved ad blocking performance". I'm not sure why they did that or whether it's actually improved, but the Apple-specific content blocker AP
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I wonder how much of that is down to car culture. The amount of traffic I had to deal with as a child was tiny compared what my children faced. I don't see how this is related at all. Car culture was already firmly established 50-
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by lapcat 1y ago
> a release that doesn't have gratuitous UI churn and superficial changes There have actually been quite a few of those releases. Some of the California-themed updates have been practically indistinguishable from the previous versio

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