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by npunt 6y ago
This just places even more burden on teachers to do everything. This is like keeping the troops but removing the supply lines.
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by npunt 6y ago
You're making a general point about a specific company. Look at the history of Apple, what it says, how it acts, and how that has changed or not over the past 44 years. It's always possible to conjure up the hundreds of ways busin
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by npunt 6y ago
It's to control business & brand risk. I believe this explains all downstream choices: how devices are designed and how easy they are to repair, whether they supply repair groups with adequate info, parts availability, etc. Remembe
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by npunt 6y ago
It's extremely straightforward: Apple is in the user experience business. People buy Apple products because they 'just work'. That reputation is worth hundreds of billions of dollars because most people have frustrating exper
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by npunt 6y ago
I'm not privy to anything specifically about batteries, and you may be right about the batteries all effectively being the same. However, I do know - in general - component manufacturers are notorious for cutting corners to save a few
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by npunt 6y ago
It's in Apple's best interest to maintain high customer satisfaction, because that's how they get repeat business. This question is in the same vein as hypothetical questions like 'what prevents Apple from violating peop
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by npunt 6y ago
This is almost nothing like the very low margin auto business. Apple makes ~35-40% margins on the devices at time of sale, and make additional profits on services. Repairs are barely profitable IIRC.
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by npunt 6y ago
That Rock Star car looks fantastic, like a modernized C2 (63-67) corvette
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by npunt 6y ago
Yeah this is part of what makes HN what it is. I'm not sure it could be any other way if its a community comprised of people building product for a living, who see the world as a mutable, and whose products tend to mostly be rehashes o
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by npunt 6y ago
Agree, there's definitely a risk for uncanny valley in voice assistants around tone. Emotion in particular is an area where I think we won't have sophisticated enough systems to address for some time, which means it's mostly
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by npunt 6y ago
I imagine there's a natural gravitational pull toward base 10 from having fingers, and throughout prehistory and early civilization occasionally systems deviated to suit certain purposes (like sibling comment about even divisibility of
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by npunt 6y ago
There have been other state prisons that have released prisoners that were severe cases, so as to lower their death numbers. Look for that.
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by npunt 6y ago
A few key points: * Built by Twenty for $2.75m + $300k/mo to operate * Doesn't use Apple-Google API * Uses GPS + Bluetooth, sends location history to centralized server * 45k people signed up since 4/22 (21 days ago), 2% of U
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Utah rejects Apple-Google approach, endorses alternative contact-tracing app(cnbc.com)
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by npunt 6y ago
Looks like there's a decent overlap between state tax burden and whether they're 'donor' states in terms of federal dollars. Those that have higher tax burden tend to be sending more $ to the federal government than they
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by npunt 7y ago
This just as easily applies to artists, its definitely not inherent to engineering.
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by npunt 7y ago
Yeah definitely! Fashion is itself a framing mechanism and a way to convey meaning, and part of any good product launch is having people understand your product the way you want it to be understood. If one of the properties you want your pr
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by npunt 7y ago
Even if they did make the world's greatest AR hardware of 2020, they wouldn't have a great product because they wouldn't have clear use cases to sell it, and it would be too hobbled by resource constraints of the available te
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by npunt 7y ago
Yep, the videos are basically scifi shorts devoid of actual product thinking. It's like asking concept artists to draw a hospital of the future, knowing nothing about how hospitals operate. I saw this a lot in edtech, lots of wishful t
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by npunt 7y ago
A "transformative visual experience" isn't a product, or a vision. It's a technology in search of a problem. They needed to demonstrate a clear use case, and determine if that was achievable with what they had. If it was
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by npunt 7y ago
Sure, selling a big vision is important to new startups. That's just one of many constraints and risks you have, but like all risks it can be navigated well or poorly. They could sell a big vision but also have a plan to increment ther
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by npunt 7y ago
Wearable anywhere. AR's unique value is not big bulky things you play with at home, they're to be a nearly invisible accessory you wear everywhere. You get a few grams to hang off people's faces in the form of glasses, not a
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by npunt 7y ago
The question I'm asking is why they don't have a great product. Why is it bulky, weird looking, expensive, etc? Why does their marketing fail to explain the product's value? There are tons of ways to implement AR. They chos
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by npunt 7y ago
It isn't just luck. It's knowing what markets to enter and what markets to avoid. Pebble entered a market adjacent to iPhone and where Apple was likely to move next. It wasn't Pebble's market to win, it was Apple's
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by npunt 7y ago
Good counter-example. The reason is leverage. FitBit had nothing to leverage, whereas Watch had iPhone, Apple's manufacturing prowess, and Apple's entire market presence. There's a part of the essay that covers the leverage p
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by npunt 7y ago
Magic Leap made one of the classic mistakes that other before-their-time products make: they tried to create a general purpose product because they didn't have a killer app that could focus their efforts. When you're building a pr
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by npunt 7y ago
Apologies I stand corrected! No idea how I missed that. Thanks!
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by npunt 7y ago
[I was wrong, ignore]
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by npunt 7y ago
This is great! In a way it's like the output was a question rather than an answer. This is quite similar to education research on Teachable Agents [1], which is an embodiment of the idea that to know something you must be able to teach
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by npunt 7y ago
If we're going to mine ancient history, lets put up a disclaimer that any company that exists for a 40+ years and is trying to invent new things is going to change their mind about stuff. If they didn't, they probably wouldn'

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