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
lmao
― 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
The difference from 10.9 is that then you had an explicit choice to save to iCloud or elsewhere. Now even unsaved drafts are uploaded
― stet, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link
if you're using the default set of apps, that is<looks down nose all elitist-style>
― mh, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 14:37 (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.
The compliance issues are infuriating. Especially since it sounds like sloppy engineering rather than a useful feature.
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
I think it's a useful feature but it's one of those things where engineering does it without running it through the right channels
we have those in my workplace, we call them "cowboys" and they finally got shut down after being told that not trusting systems administrators is not a reason to run a production server on some guy's desk
― mh, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
"There is something very wrong with this company. It’s like Richard Nixon came back from the grave and is running a startup."
ha i like this
― caek, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 03:52 (nine years ago) link
re: uber btw
He's having another go at "apps are really just the web" and he's still all kinds of wrong there.
― stet, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 09:48 (nine years ago) link
This Kubrick obsession of his is something else.
― ambergris shmambergris (silby), Thursday, 20 November 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
"A moment to savor"
― stet, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
I hate you stet.
― markers, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
I forget but I think I was coming here to mention something similar. Great minds.
― markers, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:05 (nine years ago) link
Yes, they made a ton of money. By gouging us, basically. And we pay it!
Why not stop the dividends and pay your retail employees more or something.
― markers, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
because until publicly-held companies cease being held to pull the most profit possible, people will be paid the minimum amount the market demands
― mh, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn't mind so much if they weren't increasing the iPhone prices and still skimping on memory. Some straight gouging, that.
― stet, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
Tim Cook is in the midst of a European tour. This photo from his tour of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum caught my eye. You can feel the solemnity.
― schwantz, Thursday, 26 February 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
And just think, he makes six figures writing this crapola.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Thursday, 26 February 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
Take a first generation iPhone. Now imagine if you could upgrade it to today’s A8 SoC. It’d be better than it was before, that’s for sure. But it’d still have a low-resolution non-retina display. It’d still be stuck with EDGE cellular networking. It’d still have a crappy camera that couldn’t even shoot video. Etc. The “computer” inside Apple Watch isn’t centrally important. Everything is important. The health sensors, the display, the battery, the Taptic Engine, the digital crown, the networking capabilities, everything.
This is bizarre. He doesn’t realize that a system-on-a-chip is a system-on-a-chip (e.g. “sensors” and “networking capabilities”).
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 9 March 2015 12:46 (nine years ago) link
― mh, Monday, 9 March 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
I mean, he's right for the display and sensors, but the "motion coprocessor" or whatever they have been selling it as would be part of that SoC for sure
― mh, Monday, 9 March 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
Let's not confuse Grubes with someone who knows about computers, or what words mean
― stately, plump buck angel (silby), Monday, 9 March 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
he wrote a famous perl script
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 9 March 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
Loool "taptic engine".
velocity engine >>>> taptic engine
― stet, Monday, 9 March 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, March 9, 2015 10:28 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ziiiiiing
― mh, Monday, 9 March 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kWcLqPo.png
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/cMYKp27.png
Bringing back a classic
― 龜, Friday, 20 March 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link