neotek

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by neotek 10y ago
Come to Australia, we need you!
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by neotek 10y ago
Changing species isn't the same thing as changing gender, and it's an insane comparison to draw.
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mpv is fantastic. I recently decided to abandon MPlayerX when I found out about their incredibly dishonest malware bundling tactics[1] but was surprised at how few good media players there are for macOS, until I read about mpv. mpv took a l
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by neotek 10y ago
I can buy Candy Crush from Amazon and Google Play, isn't that the same thing? It won't run on my iPhone, but it's fundamentally the same app, isn't it? I'm asking this genuinely, from a position of ignorance, intere
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Great, so that's one small part of the ecosystem covered, how about handoff between apps on my phone and apps on my laptop? How about a unified messaging system that lets me send SMS messages and make phone calls from my laptop? Google
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Apple has never been the kind of company to celebrate anniversaries in that way. I would be mildly disappointed if they started now.
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>Standing up for your right to lock-in your data with a single vendor? Apple didn't lock me in, I gladly locked myself in, because Apple's ecosystem is cohesive in a way that nobody else even comes close to. I love being able t
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by neotek 10y ago
I think you may have misread what I wrote: one fifth of one percent, i.e, 0.2%. It's a minuscule drop in the ocean for Apple, such a small number it doesn't even show up on their financial reports. There's no way in hell they
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by neotek 10y ago
Not only was it not a mistake, ten years from now people will refer to the outrage over the removal of the headphone jack in the same way we currently refer to the outrage over the removal of the floppy drive.
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Switching to USB-C on the iPhone would have been a hugely shitty decision given their ultimate goal is clearly to build a phone without any ports at all within a few years. Consider what would happen in that case: right now there are hundre
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by neotek 10y ago
Apple made $230 BILLION in revenue last year, of which less than one fifth of one percent came from MFI licensing fees. Removing the headphone jack had absolutely nothing to do with selling dongles and everything to do with Apple doing wh
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by neotek 10y ago
>I know it is tough to validate all addresses according to RFC Understatement of the year! If you were to try and actually validate according to the RFC, chances are you'll introduce new vectors of attack in your code simply because
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by neotek 10y ago
My new MacBook Pro finally arrived yesterday and I'm feeling pretty underwhelmed to be honest. Don't get me wrong, it's a genuinely beautiful piece of art; every line, every curve is beautiful, the screen is utterly mindblowi
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>Citation needed Physics?
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>Maybe force is too strong, but it certainly seems physically connected audio devices are now deprecated Well yeah, they sort of are. The future is wireless, there's really no denying that at this point.
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Because (a) Apple doesn't like to half-arse things, and (b) Apple knows its consumer base includes people who like to use very expensive headphones.
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by neotek 10y ago
Cool, so use the free adapter.
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I hear people saying this a lot, but I'd be willing to bet that at least 90% of consumers would be incapable of telling the difference between Bluetooth and wired audio in a blind test. Also, given that the vast majority of earbuds peo
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by neotek 10y ago
In a few short years you're probably going to find it hard to buy any phones then; Samsung is reportedly already planning to remove the headphone jack from their flagship phones.
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How are they forcing you to do anything?
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A large part of the reason they fall out is that the weight of the cable pulls them out. It's not 100% of the cause but it's definitely a major factor.
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by neotek 10y ago
We ran into a similar but much easier to identify problem with PayPal - any products we sold containing the words "Cuba" or "Havana" in their title or metadata, regardless of the context, would cause PayPal to reject the
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And still people complain that Apple refuses to allow third-party app stores.
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As a newt.
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>GP's point was that when Apple forces accessory makers to come to them for a license, they can arbitrarily chose to deny a license according to their whim. Well it's a pretty fatuous point then, since Apple could have been pla
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by neotek 10y ago
I keep hearing this silly conspiracy theory, but the numbers just don't add up. Apple makes the princely sum of $4 per accessory on MFI licensing fees. Last year, those licensing fees made up less than one fifth of one percent of the
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by neotek 10y ago
A touchscreen on a laptop is as much use as tits on a bull, I'm glad Apple chose to do something different.
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Apologies for misunderstanding your comment, however I would add that vapers don't usually end up smoking, the flow is in the other direction. I'd recommend reading the Smoking Still Kills report for more information: http:&#x2
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Nor does it mean we should arbitrarily ban or restrict them to satisfy the whims of people who haven't looked at the evidence.
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by neotek 10y ago
Which toxic drug are you suggesting is present in eliquid? You can't be talking about nicotine, since that's no more toxic than caffeine and is not carcinogenic.

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