Only sort of kidding that his demo phone is an actual living breathing monster
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
now im scared, great
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
It’s been a while since I used a rounded iPhone. It’s nice. With the iPhone 6, I’ve found myself reverting to a habit I formed back in 2007 with the original iPhone: slowly spinning it around in my hand, over and over, side over side, like one of those “worry stones” that were popular back in the 1990s. It just feels nice in your hand. (The 6 Plus is too big for me to do this with.)
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
Ah, but then there’s The Bulge. Both iPhone 6 models have a camera lens that protrudes from the back of the phone. It’s noticeable, and, let’s face it, a little gross. But this was foreseeable given that the presciently-designed iPod Touch from two years ago had one too. (The iPod Touch is just 6.1mm thick, thinner even than the iPhone 6.) This is a conflict with the laws of physics: image quality improves when the lens is further away from the sensor (which allows for physically larger sensors), but devices feel better in hand and weigh less when they are thinner. Apple’s only options for the iPhone 6:
Use a camera with worse optics that would sit flush with the rest of the case.
Make the entirely device thicker to sit flush with the camera lens.
Allow the camera lens to protrude from the back of the camera.
The first choice is unacceptable. Image quality is too important to allow it to suffer — and Apple certainly couldn’t allow image quality on the iPhone 6 to be worse than on the 5S. So the choice was between #2 and #3, and as a fan of smaller thinner devices, I can’t say I disagree with Apple’s decision to go with #3. It’s reasonable to argue that the iPhone 6 would have been better if Apple had gone with #2 (and filled the additional volume with a slightly thicker battery), but that’s not really Apple-like.
omg why didnt they do this drives me fn nuts mane
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
they did it to drive you nuts iirc
― ⌘-B (mh), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
They could have made the camera thinner if they went super wide angle, and then used post processing to fix the image / crop
― 龜, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:21 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i know!!
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
― 龜, Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:33 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
jony ive, browsing ilx, facepalms
cropping does not have the same effect as a longer lens tho, iphone lens already way too fn wide imho impossible to take pictures of anything far away
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
There are probably too many DSLR purist freaks on the design team to ever go for a flat solution tho
― 龜, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
the watch post...
what kind of monster is he?
― caek, Thursday, 18 September 2014 10:18 (nine years ago) link
I seriously had a dream this morning that he posted something with some vaguely rape-apologist elements and then Jason Kottke called him out on it, so I should probably get better dreams and spend less time thinking about John Gruber.
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
lmao otm
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
that is an incredible internet dream tho
$80 for a steel watch band is a “hefty price”. That’s adorable.
fuck you, basically
― ugh (lukas), Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
Well, if you're pulling down something like $260k a year mainly posting links and the occasional longform article, $80 is adorable.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
this http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/09/19/iphones-6-line
made me think of this http://www.theonion.com/articles/william-safire-orders-two-whoppers-junior,3351/
― sktsh, Saturday, 20 September 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Sunday, 21 September 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
"thoughts on" is not necessarily a good way to start a title. this is an apple blogger tic, and yes i know abt jobs, obv
― markers, Friday, 26 September 2014 00:53 (nine years ago) link
also: one word titles like matt gemmell's "portable" or w/e
― markers, Friday, 26 September 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
that "iphones 6" shit is also ridic
if you have to stick with the super simple format, at least go with "iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus" or something
"layer tennis"
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 26 September 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
hah i was just looking at that
― markers, Friday, 26 September 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
didn't read past the first sentence of what I presume is saccharine nonsense about Derek Jeter
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Sunday, 28 September 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
i don't know if i finished it, but i didn't think it was bad at all
― markers, Monday, 29 September 2014 12:37 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/I2DMUWL.png
sounds very fun
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
http://blog.fawny.org/2014/10/10/gruberbucks/
― caek, Friday, 10 October 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/IdaRhNv.png
― 龜, Friday, 10 October 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/10/09/ive-xiaomi
pretty good gruberzing here
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 10 October 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
I have a coworker with one of those t-shirts :/
― ⌘-B (mh), Friday, 10 October 2014 14:37 (nine years ago) link
when they say something dumb in a meeting and are wearing the shirt you shd tell them youre filing it to claim chowder
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 October 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
hahahaha
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 10 October 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
lol
or just knock em out with one punch and when someone tries to ask them to explain their comment you can say "UPDATE: fireballed"
― sktsh, Friday, 10 October 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 10 October 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
http://instagram.com/p/NXX_dDvVjn/
― markers, Monday, 20 October 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
lool
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 October 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
I do actually enjoy Grubes' callouts of that "finally" tic.
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
(The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are so nearly identical in Geekbench results that I simply averaged the two together under “iPhones 6”.)
― phil phish (diamonddave85), Thursday, 23 October 2014 03:56 (nine years ago) link
Look at how long the title is for his iPad Air 2 review. Couldn't he have called his iPhone review "iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus" instead?
― markers, Thursday, 23 October 2014 04:04 (nine years ago) link
That’s how much the banks like Apple Pay. They’re giving you money just to try it.
http://crooksandliars.com/files/vfs/2013/01/10105.jpeg
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
First, the headline. I think it’s clear that Apple Pay is siding with the credit companies and banks — but they’re not pitted against consumers, they’re pitted against retailers. It’s retailers who want to reduce the use of credit cards (and the resulting fees). Not consumers. Any consumer who doesn’t want to use a credit card can simply not use a credit card. (They can still use Apple Pay with debit cards.) Apple Pay is only allowing us to more easily and securely use the credit/debit cards we already have. For consumers, nothing is worse post-Apple Pay (transaction fees are not higher — the banks pay Apple’s 0.15 percent cut), and much is better (security, privacy, and convenience).I understand the argument that the 2-3 percent processing fees that retailers pay for credit cards are ultimately passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, but for consumers that can be offset by cash back and reward programs from their card providers.I don’t understand how this article amounts to anything more than “Apple should have used magic” hand-waving. What could Apple have done differently that would have actually worked, without involving credit card processors? Remember, Apple Pay doesn’t require retailers to install Apple Pay-specific POS terminal hardware. It famously works with the standard NFC hardware that’s been out for years. Building atop the existing credit card infrastructure is fundamental to people’s willingness to try Apple Pay and to retailers’ ability to accept it. Pressman is implicitly arguing that Apple should have somehow reinvented the entire retail electronic payments industry, without the help of the banks or credit card companies, and presumably with the cooperation of retailers. But we see with CurrentC/MCX the sort of things the retailers would have demanded of Apple in such a hypothetical systems.
I understand the argument that the 2-3 percent processing fees that retailers pay for credit cards are ultimately passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, but for consumers that can be offset by cash back and reward programs from their card providers.
I don’t understand how this article amounts to anything more than “Apple should have used magic” hand-waving. What could Apple have done differently that would have actually worked, without involving credit card processors? Remember, Apple Pay doesn’t require retailers to install Apple Pay-specific POS terminal hardware. It famously works with the standard NFC hardware that’s been out for years. Building atop the existing credit card infrastructure is fundamental to people’s willingness to try Apple Pay and to retailers’ ability to accept it. Pressman is implicitly arguing that Apple should have somehow reinvented the entire retail electronic payments industry, without the help of the banks or credit card companies, and presumably with the cooperation of retailers. But we see with CurrentC/MCX the sort of things the retailers would have demanded of Apple in such a hypothetical systems.
Eagerly awaiting Felix Salmon, et al. to smack Gruber down re: interchange.
Re: “Apple should have used magic." Apple can't, but the Fed can (and is): http://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/regii-average-interchange-fee.htm
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/11/03/filevault_2_mac_users_unsaved_files_and_screenshots_are_automatically_uploaded.html
gruber defense of this as "why wouldn't you want your stuff to be recoverable from a secure backup, idiots" in 5...4...
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 3 November 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
Wait, so people are upset that "temporary files" e.g. an unsaved textedit document are backed up to iCloud? I don't quite get what's so alarming about it.
― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 10:51 (nine years ago) link
Uploading what has always been local-only (hell, what had always been in-memory-only) to US servers without notice is pretty bad news. Depending on what you happened to be typing (eg personal data) you could be breaking all sorts of laws, from data protection to HIPAA.
I was quite surprised to hear about it, yep.
― stet, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 11:30 (nine years ago) link
Not surprised by this at all. The iWork apps, TextEdit, etc. all default saved to iCloud in 10.9. Suspect some Handoff/Continuity features rely on it.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 12:29 (nine years ago) link
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/Handoff/HandoffFundamentals/HandoffFundamentals.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014338-CH3-SW5
Handoff of a given user activity requires the originating app to designate that activity’s NSUserActivity object as the current activity, save pertinent data for continuation on another device, and send the data to the resuming device. Handoff passes only enough information between the devices to describe the activity itself, while larger-scale data synchronization is handled through iCloud.
― sktsh, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 12:47 (nine years ago) link
i do think it's pretty sketchy that data is being transmitted possibly across legal jurisdictions w/o explicit action of saving it on the part of the user if it's not made explicitly clear that's what's happening
― sktsh, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
basically we're looking at a huge state sponsored version of the posts you had second thoughts about thread
― sktsh, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link