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by shinratdr 10y ago
It's really not. The MacBook Air is "superior" in two objective specs: speed & price. That's honestly it, and it's not even that much faster. It also has more ports & a more traditional keyboard/trackpa
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by shinratdr 10y ago
If you don't give a shit about design, get one of the other million laptops that are available. The MacBook doesn't try to be everyone's everything. That's part of what makes it such a good device. I don't understan
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by shinratdr 10y ago
That's ridiculous, it's not useless anywhere. What's useless is how shitty fingerprint readers were before TouchID. TouchID isn't just a reimplementation, it's a massive technological improvement that elevates consu
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by shinratdr 11y ago
What's wrong with Twitter? It's a great service. It pretty much becomes whatever you want it to be.
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by shinratdr 11y ago
I have no problem with this, but it doesn't work very well for me. Tried about eight of my email addresses. School and work ones did nothing, and neither did my Outlook.com account, or Yahoo.com. For Gmail addresses it just pulled the
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by shinratdr 11y ago
This simply isn't true. The Skyhook trial proved definitively that Google has the power to dictate what OEMs that ship the Google Apps suite include on their phones. Problem is, they've only ever used that ability to push their ow
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by shinratdr 11y ago
That's fine, do what works for you. Many don't care though, and browser vendors are happy to cater to them as well.
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by shinratdr 11y ago
> When is someone going to sue Apple? For what? Not writing an API so that their software that runs on 15% of phones works the way you want it to? Good luck. > Why would anyone even create a browser on iOS with all the restrictions? T
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by shinratdr 11y ago
Makes you wonder why they even bought them in the first place. There was no possible integration there, the only move was expansion into other markets. So buy them, wait two years, then kill them off? Great use of funds there Dropbox, I gue
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by shinratdr 11y ago
Yep, because it's built into iOS at the system-level. I also don't like Google and I generally avoid all their services except Search & Maps.
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by shinratdr 11y ago
I got the same message in Canada.
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by shinratdr 11y ago
> I think Google is faster at file sync than Dropbox. Speed of sync isn't much of a concern to me personally, I don't use Dropbox for big files. Reliability of sync is key for me, and for that I have never had an issue. Everyth
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by shinratdr 11y ago
> What bothers me about Dropbox is that many of the complaints I had 7 years ago are still there... People have been complaining about the AppData binary thing and the roaming profiles issue since Dropbox launched. I thought that FINALLY
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by shinratdr 11y ago
Poor performance, broken in Windows when using roaming profiles, storing binaries in the user's roaming AppData folder on Windows, DLL injection in Windows and god-knows-what in OS X to alter Explorer & Finder icons, low base stora
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by shinratdr 11y ago
PTRISM?
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by shinratdr 11y ago
It's definitely buggy. It's a real shame too, because the service is actually awesome when it works. But tying it to iTunes on Windows and not spending nearly enough time hammering out the backend issues is killing it. It's w
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by shinratdr 11y ago
But absolutely not from inception. iTunes Match had about a six month lead on that. It was a major differentiator at the time.
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by shinratdr 11y ago
None of this is what happened. Here's what actually happened. Developer develops a tweak requiring a jailbreak. It becomes one of the most popular jailbreak tweaks available. Five years pass, Apple inadvertently allows sideloading by g
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by shinratdr 11y ago
What contract? All I see is the same clickwrap you violate when you jailbreak your device and install f.lux the old fashioned way. This is an end-run around Apple's policies, just like jailbreaking. Apple doesn't like it, just lik
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by shinratdr 11y ago
That's true, but it would be both extremely petty and a violation of the spirit of the Developer ID program, which is to only revoke Developer IDs in the case of malware. Not because you don't like what they are doing with wholly
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by shinratdr 11y ago
I don't doubt that, nor do I disagree they are (or the users sideloading) are violating some agreement. I'm saying, who cares? Jailbreaking and installing f.lux the old way is just as much of a TOS violation and that never stopped
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by shinratdr 11y ago
How does developing the most famous jailbreak tweak for five years constitute "maintaining a good relationship with Apple". As far as I can tell, that went out the window years ago.
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by shinratdr 11y ago
> I think you're disappointed in the wrong party here. If saurik suddenly decided that developing Cydia was harming his relationship with Apple and pulled it, I would be disappointed in him, not Apple. It's their game, their ru
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by shinratdr 11y ago
I suppose it's possible, but they don't have any applications under their f.lux brand/company published anywhere. If they're just unpublished but registered developers, then sign up for a new account under a different id
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by shinratdr 11y ago
So it's a violation of the developer agreement, that's why they pulled it? Of course it's a violation. What do they care? They signed no such agreement and they are not registered Apple developers. Developing for Cydia is a v
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by shinratdr 11y ago
Then by all means, please continue trusting a complete database of the most valuable information in your life to the lowest bidder.
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by shinratdr 11y ago
Just wait, they'll sure up soon enough.
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by shinratdr 11y ago
Chrome has moved quite steadily towards only installing extensions listed in the Chrome Web Store, which results in roughly the same restriction. http://blog.chromium.org/2015/05/continuing-to-protect-chrom... Eac
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by shinratdr 11y ago
Long time coming, the FF extensions system has been a security risk and a development burden for years. Yes, it offered unique advantages, at a significant cost though. Judging by the number of users on Chrome, it's hardly a dealbreake
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by shinratdr 11y ago
There is so much I don't like about this article I honestly don't even know where to begin.

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