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by orbitur 10y ago
Which is strange, since the Mac mini's only value for the last 9 or 10 years has been it's ability to run OS X/macOS. From a purely technical/specs/price standpoint, the mini hasn't been a competitor since 2006
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by orbitur 10y ago
Blog post leaves out an important point: is it easy to get macOS running on that particular model? edit: The mini hasn't competed on a purely specs/price level since, perhaps, its first year or two of existence. There have long be
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by orbitur 10y ago
> apps like Waze or Uber are allowed to only request full location tracking, even while running in the background That's their choice, iOS allows the app developer to request location access restricted to the app being in the foregr
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by orbitur 10y ago
I'm happy that Crashlytics will live on, as that was something I was concerned about in light of Twitter's recent poor performance. However, I'm really not looking forward to the eventual Firebase-ifying/Google-ifying of
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by orbitur 10y ago
Because everyone else is still using git.
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by orbitur 10y ago
That might be OP's point, but that ignores the fact that Apple would likely dealing with a much worse PR disaster when millions of users can't plug their phone into literally anything they own without first buying a USB-A cable.
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by orbitur 10y ago
But most people aren't buying an iPhone 7 and a MacBook at the same time, and Apple only had one laptop with USB-C ports until a month after the iPhone's release. An iPhone 7 buyer is far more likely to find a USB-A port to plug i
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by orbitur 10y ago
It wouldn't make any sense to provide a Lightning/USB-C cable instead of Lightning/USB-A. Far more people own laptops with USB-A ports, and far more people never even plug their phones into anything besides their wall charger
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by orbitur 10y ago
As a southerner who's moved to a northern city that expanded before cars blew up in the 50s, I gotta say, I can't ever see myself going back until you can feasibly live without a car. My homecity is now over 600k people, but it&#x
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by orbitur 10y ago
We have similar clients. They insist every app must have at least 5 different analytics/ad providers and god knows what else. I was honestly kinda looking forward to January because it would force them to re-evaluate some of the shitti
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by orbitur 10y ago
Oh. That's the platform they don't really care about.
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by orbitur 10y ago
I don't get why they're delaying this. My understanding was that fully disabling ATS would require a justification. That makes sense. It's annoying to have to audit your apps and enumerate the endpoints, but as long as Apple
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by orbitur 10y ago
You can disable that by adding a key to your Info.plist. They mean at the App Store submission point. In January, they were going to start rejecting apps that didn't provide a justification for completely disabling ATS.
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by orbitur 10y ago
I will never, ever defend anything like that in the workplace, but some people consider teasing and joking to relationship building. There's no reason for a lot of human interactions that are ultimately good for a subgroup's socia
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by orbitur 10y ago
I think the touch bar in the new MBPs is evidence Apple really isn't interested in bringing touch to macOS. Given that, I think a giant screen running iOS is less than 4 years away. Related: I don't think macOS is long for this wo
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by orbitur 10y ago
Okay, put a USB-C port on the phone. Now what? Make the other end also USB-C so it plugs into virtually nothing? Also, weren't we talking about the non-phone side in the first place?
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by orbitur 10y ago
I don't get it, are you saying Apple should've shipped 2 Lightning cables in the iPhone 7 box? One that would be useless unless you happened to buy a USB-C MacBook? The iPhone is a device for everybody , and accordingly, it shi
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Tech Companies Delay Diversity Reports to Rethink Goals(wsj.com)
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by orbitur 10y ago
In other words, FB probably has something similar in the pipeline and the people who wrote the ToS weren't aware of it.
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by orbitur 10y ago
The iPhone 5c was an attempt at a "youth market" that didn't exist, but I'll agree it was cheap for them to make it. However, the iPhone SE had 98% of the guts of the 6S in a smaller package. That's not a cheap or s
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by orbitur 10y ago
All the (expensive and custom-manufactured) evidence backs up that thinking, so I'm not sure why you're being snarky about it.
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by orbitur 10y ago
So you're saying that it was even less statistically likely (before the release of the new MBPs) that an iPhone owner would have a computer with USB-C exclusively.
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by orbitur 10y ago
It was almost 2 months before USB-C appeared on the MBP line. The announcement came a full month after the iPhone 7s landed in people's hands.
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by orbitur 10y ago
Yeah, it's a shame they gave you a cable that: - they don't expect you to plug into a computer at all except in emergency - can be plugged into the provided charger - can be plugged into a computer you're statistically more l
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by orbitur 10y ago
This is something that's been bugging me for years. Why are there multiple representations of alphabet characters in Unicode? It seems reasonable to include accent marks, but what's the benefit in having a Cyrillic 'o' a
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by orbitur 10y ago
Why is that more important than UX?
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by orbitur 10y ago
What the hell is going on over there? 1. Did they honestly think no one would balk at the prices? 2. I feel like they're reacting to every single wave of criticism over these last couple years, and instead of making me feel good, it ma
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by orbitur 10y ago
I don't understand why people love websites so much. If a site is plaintext and has minimal JS, it's usually fine on a mobile device. But the moment there are interactive elements or menus or web fonts or whatever else, things are
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by orbitur 10y ago
Comcast already bought NBC Universal. Train has left the station.
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by orbitur 10y ago
I think a look at reddit shows that you can trust crowdsourced news much less than say, the NYT or WaPo. Twitter's a bit different, there are good reporters on the ground who tweet a lot, but Twitter is terrible at actual aggregation.

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