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by musictubes 1y ago
Right, iPhone engineers are just lazy. That is a much better explanation than them having to juggle tradeoffs between camera performance, weight, and feel in the hand. It isn’t a problem. That’s why it isn’t “fixed.”
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by musictubes 1y ago
The iPhone air is half the price isn’t it? But yeah, if you want a foldable the Air isn’t one.
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by musictubes 1y ago
iTunes Store has been DRM free for music for a very long time. Still have it for video though.
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by musictubes 1y ago
The author is a practicing psychiatrist and is very well versed in what can be considered psychosis.
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by musictubes 2y ago
Liberties is a great journal. It covers a lot of intellectual ground and is unapologetically Liberal in all senses of the word. Every issue has political and historical commentary, art (literary, film, dance) criticism, and poetry. It’s lik
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by musictubes 2y ago
The biggest thing that Ahrendts did was merge the online and physical stores. People forget that before she came around there was very little overlap. If you bought something online and you wanted to return it you had to ship it back inste
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by musictubes 2y ago
And of course Space Invaders was programmed inside of a Dwarf Fortress game. It’s simplified of course and not exactly real time lol. Wonder what it would take to emulate the full version inside of DF. https://youtu.be/j2cMH
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by musictubes 2y ago
But customers. People keep saying they should just not be in that country. It is far better to have the choice of using an iPhone even if particular features are no longer available.
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by musictubes 2y ago
No, this tells the customer that backups to iCloud are not secure from the government. Adding the back door would make people think that there was more security than there was. Transparency is always better than deception. Dropping the feat
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by musictubes 2y ago
Nobody buys Apple products anymore because they’re too popular? Or maybe they’d be more popular if people bought fewer devices? I can’t make any sense out of what you’re saying. What if, and I know this is a crazy thought but what if people
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by musictubes 2y ago
But it’s better to sell phones with better margin. More people need to take Econ 101. Opportunity cost is an actual thing. You can be sure they did the math. Selling ever so slightly fewer larger phones at higher margin is better than selli
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by musictubes 2y ago
Or maybe opportunity cost is a real thing. They have decided it isn’t worth it to pursue that niche. I think Apple believes it has addressed a lot of the small screen needs with the watch.
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by musictubes 2y ago
I hear this and I do not relate at all. Face ID is so much more reliable than Touch ID ever was for me.
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by musictubes 2y ago
You can’t fit what’s in a pro into a mini sized phone. You have to give something up. The battery was already smaller than the regular sized phones. So what would you be willing to give up from the regular line to get a mini that wasn’t Gim
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by musictubes 2y ago
What that even be? You can’t fit what’s in the pro line in a smaller phone. The smaller phones already had smaller batteries, would you be willing to give up more to squeeze in another lens? Something or some things have to give when you ha
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by musictubes 2y ago
I’d think that would be tricky to integrate with a decent case.
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by musictubes 2y ago
You used to be able to do syncing with iTunes via WiFi. Can you do that for backups? WiFi is bound to be faster than USB 2.
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by musictubes 2y ago
I think the long term plan is for the modem to be part of the SOC. That would probably lead to even better efficiency and cost/space savings. If that happens I fully expect the modem to end up in the M series as well.
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by musictubes 2y ago
There’s no conspiracy. Not enough people like small phones. Apple’s biggest spike happened once they ditched the iPhone 5 size and went to bigger phones with the iPhone 6. I’m willing to bet it was some people in management that missed the
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by musictubes 2y ago
Exactly. So many people commented on tech sites that they loved the mini sized device but didn’t buy it because they want a pro spec mini. Like there aren’t any trade offs by making the phone smaller. Apple arguably made the best small phon
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by musictubes 2y ago
Apple and Spotify both pay 70% but the devil is in the details. Apparently Spotify gives out 70% of its revenues based on what percentage of streams the artist has that month. What that means is that regardless of what you listen to, a perc
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by musictubes 2y ago
Nope. Don't even need the dark web. All you need is social media. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/who-needs-the-da...
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by musictubes 2y ago
You don’t have to use iCloud. Customers in China can still make encrypted backups on their computers. I also believe, but please correct me if I’m wrong, that you can still do encrypted backups in China if you want. All the pearl clutching
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by musictubes 2y ago
This is tiresome. They cannot lock down the Mac without losing one of its biggest markets, software development. It was mentioned at a WWDC 5 or 6 years ago I think that software developers were the largest of the professional groups using
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by musictubes 2y ago
Can the hardware for ray tracing be used for anything else? Ray tracing is just math, is that math applicable for any non graphics use?
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by musictubes 2y ago
Ben Bejarin said that around 50% of the installed base is still using Macs with Intel chips. You’ll keep hearing that comparison until that number goes down.
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by musictubes 2y ago
4k for videoconferencing is nuts. The new camera should be an improvement over the old. Plus, being able to show your actual, physical desktop can be Andy too. Using your iPhone as the webcam will still probably give you the best quality es
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by musictubes 2y ago
Maybe I’m doing it wrong but RSS works just fine most of the time for me. I use NewsBlur and does everything I need and more. What did reader have that no other RSS service doesn’t?
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by musictubes 2y ago
It isn’t brought up because it isn’t true. Plenty of ad blockers for iOS/ipados Safari.
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by musictubes 2y ago
There are a variety of people that did just that. It’s frustrating to keep seeing the sentiment, on HN of all places, that Google Reader is what is needed for RSS services. RSS readers are a niche business and clearly not worth Google’s opp

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