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901.
by npunt 8y ago
Ya that poorly obscured email in the message is strongest evidence to suggest this is a real twitter account & story - I believe it’s legitimate. Which makes this story really interesting, that the kid found it, the parent knew how to b
902.
by npunt 8y ago
Oh I’m not questioning the existence or importance of the bug. It’s important and a big screwup. However, I am extra sensitive to the degree to which twitter is being manipulated for all sorts of ends. Sometimes things look more than a bi
903.
by npunt 8y ago
Interesting twitter account. First tweet 1/1/19, few followers, mostly politics, then a major bug report (not only in discovery but in knowing how to go through the reporting process). Not saying it’s fake at all - it looks 100% l
904.
by npunt 8y ago
Samsung is both a creator of consumer electronics (TVs, dishwashers, smartphones, notebooks, etc) and a supplier to other consumer electronics companies. They're massive. Hence my bringing up their notebooks, as I was initially confuse
905.
by npunt 8y ago
Good point. I just looked at Samsung's lineup [1] and it seems they're mostly plasticy machines aimed at the low and mid end of the market. I thought they had some high-end parts like Dell. Guess they don't have the platform
906.
by npunt 8y ago
Gorgeous display unfortunately married to sub-par industrial design. The colors are all off. Black display hinges break the silver line of the chassis. Two black buttons on the left do the same. Big black touchbar type thing coupled with wh
907.
by npunt 8y ago
The downside of decimating attention span rears it’s head.
908.
by npunt 8y ago
Note at the time (2011-2012) there was almost assuredly a lot of incentive at FB to look the other way regarding this kind of fraud, since they were preparing to go public (May 2012). When going public you want to get the best price on your
909.
by npunt 8y ago
Strategically it's been completely sidelined. Windows division, once the major power player in Microsoft, is gone. Windows the OS is still installed on a bunch of computers, but we're increasingly in a mobile and cloud world, and
910.
by npunt 8y ago
Oh man, the Mavericks days of iPhoto were getting rough. Beachball city.
911.
by npunt 8y ago
You're right to point out that I'm in the optimistic camp on this issue. I think it's both do-able over the course of several years of refinements, and necessary given that I think we're not done yet with innovation in i
912.
by npunt 8y ago
They did an entire rewrite of iPhoto -> Photos, and slowly added features back. They did this same with the iWork suite and Final Cut Pro as well. It's not unique to iOS. iPhoto may be remembered fondly but it really needed a UX and
913.
by npunt 8y ago
Agree, it doesn't adequately capture the full range of business models in the software market.
914.
by npunt 8y ago
I don't work at Apple and I'm not a journalist. I'm offering a possible reason why this is relevant, tying it to another trend (convergence of platform UX frameworks) that is well discussed and already has code shipping today
915.
by npunt 8y ago
1. Go to Office365.com 2. Login 3. Do you want to stay logged in? 4. Is your information up to date? 5. Office / OneCloud homepage ("Good evening"). Press 'Install Office' (its a secondary/white button that ble
916.
by npunt 8y ago
Big move. I see this potentially as groundwork for the eventual integration of Mac and iOS App Stores, which you have to imagine is something Apple wants in the years ahead as platforms converge on common software stack and UX. It's al
917.
by npunt 8y ago
Also, the App Store version is going to be a bit more sandboxed. I just replaced the regular with the App Store version and it went without a hitch. Just needed keychain access to Microsoft identity, and a login to Live.
918.
by npunt 8y ago
Agree on MacBook v MacBook Air. I think the intent was to kill the MacBook Air and service the market segment it once occupied with a combination of the MacBook and MacBook Pro non-touchbar. However that didn't seem to work out the way
919.
by npunt 8y ago
Commenter thinks Apple putting engineers on their autonomous car project will somehow make Intel's engineers move faster. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
920.
by npunt 8y ago
If you're resting most of your argument / feeling on whether Apple is shipping latest gen hardware you might want to examine that more closely. This is a very common misconception and a bit of googling will tell you either a) they
921.
by npunt 8y ago
That is unless those newer co's are overvalued in the market. I imagine Apple would love to buy Netflix for 10-20bb but at 140bb that's a hard sell. Driverless is such a foundational tech it makes sense to have lots of efforts pur
922.
by npunt 8y ago
Which product lines are conflicting, and is that conflict a really big deal or just a minor one? Apple has always been self-cannabilizing, see iPod v iPod Mini v iPod nano. The company is much much larger than all these fond remembrances of
923.
by npunt 8y ago
Macs aren't their core business. You may think they should be, but they aren't.
924.
by npunt 8y ago
This is a completely different time than the 90s, when Apple's market strategy was failing, they were fast running out of cash, and had too many SKUs. The scale back then is orders of magnitude different than now, and the health of the
925.
by npunt 8y ago
Uh... 2 gens? iMacs are on Kaby Lake which is last gen. Anyway, the iMac doesn't have Coffee Lake CPUs because they're barely any different than Kaby Lake, or even Skylake for that matter. Intel is basically rebadging CPUs at this
926.
by npunt 8y ago
Apple has never been shy to cannibalize their own sales, in fact it's straight out of the Steve Jobs playbook (“If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will”). I'd challenge you to find a company better at it than they are
927.
by npunt 8y ago
Lack of 8th gen intel? That's Coffee Lake, which is in all the 2018 MacBook Pros. Intel's failures at 10nm (Cannon Lake, their previous target for 8th gen) are very well known and have been holding up the entire industry, and that
928.
by npunt 8y ago
Yep this is exactly the same. People complained about the new lightning connector in 2012 as well. The one difference is USB-C is more complex and some peripheral manufacturers haven't been building stuff to spec.
929.
by npunt 8y ago
The original iPhone used the 2.5mm jack and bundled a 2.5->3.5 adapter. The small jack sucked. A year later the iPhone 3G came out with the regular 3.5mm jack.
930.
by npunt 8y ago
The rip off the band-aid shift isn't just about making the leap to a better universal connector, it's also about kickstarting the peripheral market. Manufacturers of peripherals heavily optimize on the short term, so if USB-A is s

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