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by pompino 2y ago
Ipads/tablets are very common business devices used for a variety of applications. We issue ipads to our field techs to do inspection checklists, take pictures at job sites, write notes, etc. Its a great device for that.
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by pompino 2y ago
Yeah, its not like companies care about user sentiment or ever take feedback into account for future product features. /s
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by pompino 2y ago
>I really don't understand your argument here. No one is banning you from building stalking devices I use airtags to not just locate lost stuff, but also as a potential means to find stuff when stolen. Its not about me wanting a way
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by pompino 2y ago
Do you think online protests or discussing these issues results in any tangible outcomes? (I do)
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by pompino 2y ago
Its not just popular, police departments have recommended it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/28/airtags... https://www.axios.com/2023/05/24/apple-airtags
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by pompino 2y ago
You can call anything you do as a "genuine well-founded harm-minimization strategy", but nobody is out there banning knives and gardening shears and shovels and baseball bats and other tools that can contribute towards "easie
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by pompino 2y ago
Every phone is already being being tracked and logged. What youre really saying is that people often tolerate some tracking if done by CIA/phone company/Apple/Google/FB. We're just playing with semantics here. Track
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by pompino 2y ago
No, not in a free society. For any product, users should be free to use it for any (legal) use they see fit. Artificially limiting the use of a product goes against the hacker culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack
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by pompino 2y ago
Yes, I think the PR backlash for such features is too great that it spoils them for the rest of us. When people "misuse" any technology, it seems the consensus nowadays is that the responsibility is shared between the technology c
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by pompino 2y ago
Sure, but the owner of the product gets to choose what they use it for. "You're holding it wrong" strikes again. If Apple's position is - "then don't buy it", they can come out and say it. They certainly h
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by pompino 2y ago
Design doesn't matter after a point - you have to meet your users on their turf. Most people were using it for other reasons - and if Apple's stance is, fine - don't buy it, then so be it.
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by pompino 2y ago
> It’s possible the tracker is attached to an item the user is borrowing, but if not, iPhone can view the tracker’s identifier, have the tracker play a sound to help locate it, and access instructions to disable it. That means someone ca
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by pompino 2y ago
10 people on twitter are complaining so Apple must apologize.
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by pompino 2y ago
Yeah, apparently its hard to just move on with your life after watching something you dont like. This making front page on HN is wild. The echo chamber is sealed tight.
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by pompino 2y ago
They are also notoriously anti-repair, block access to spare parts (despite their recent fake pro-repair marketing) so all their repairable products end up in landfills. People are focusing on the irrelevant ad, but the real harm is elsewhe
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by pompino 2y ago
I'd argue almost all NEW library development is about politics and platform ownership. Every large company wants to be the dependency that other projects tie into. And if you don't want to hitch your wagon to google or facebook or
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by pompino 2y ago
Sure, and this is where I will ask you post a list of "good" professional software so I can google all the bugs in that software :) Nah, I'm good. Believe what you want to believe my friend.
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by pompino 2y ago
It would be funny, if it wasn't also sad to see the decline.
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by pompino 2y ago
Yes, a bachelors and a masters. Not that the degree means much, I learnt 90% of what I know on the job. It certainly helped get my foot in through the university brand, and alumni network. You can call yourself anything you want Doctor, Law
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by pompino 2y ago
"deeply offended" - My default response to imposters is laughter. Call yourself Lord, King, President, Doctor, Lawyer whatever - doesn't matter to me. I'd suggest you to lighten up.
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by pompino 2y ago
This is not a reasonable way to infer the sentiment of hundreds of millions of people in different countries, different business, different situations, etc, etc. Disguising it as an "observation" is even more ridiculous.
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by pompino 2y ago
We use the sales metrics and signals available to us. I don't know what to say except resign to the fact that the world is fundamentally unfair, and you won't ever get to run the A/B experiment that you want. So yes, Windows
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by pompino 2y ago
Its not an "observation" its someone making it up. Why are you so upset if I disagree?
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by pompino 2y ago
True, we learnt calculus before college in my home country - but it was just basic stuff. But I learnt a lot more of it including partial derivatives in first year of engineering college. >I think I used Calculus more during electrical e
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by pompino 2y ago
Hmm, that is an interesting take. Calculus does seems like the uniting factor. I've come to appreciate the fact that domain knowledge has a more dominant role in solving a problem than technical/programming knowledge. I often wond
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by pompino 2y ago
You seem to be suggesting that a chunk of the hundreds of millions of people who use a UI that you don't like, secretly hate it or are forced to tolerate it. Not a position I'd personally want to argue or defend, so I'll leav
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by pompino 2y ago
People overwhelmingly choose windows world-wide to get shit done. That answers the who.
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by pompino 2y ago
Would you like me to explain how it works to you? I'm not sure why you added a question mark.
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by pompino 2y ago
Oh, I'm sure there are lots of creatives who use OSX, so I don't mean to suggest nobody uses OSX, so I'll admit it was a bit in jest to poke fun at the stereotype. I'm definitely oldschool - but to me It's a bit cri
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by pompino 2y ago
>The promise of privacy is one way in which they position themselves, but I would not bet the bank on that being true forever. They failed with their ad-business so this is a nice pivot. I'll take it, I'm not usually a cheerlea

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