New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

dan i wish the one you recommend were sold in the UK :(

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A thing that's REALLY shitting me about the retina iPad is the lack of updates to apps that don't work properly on it. ADE pubs like The New Yorker look like arse, and my workflow is totally scuppered due to the amount of time it's taking to sort out stuff like Notes Plus and Paper. Starting to worry that pen/drawing fluidity is terminally fucked on this thing.

So far my favorite thing to do on NEW IPAD is look at maps. It's just made for them.

i use a mac for some design classes i'm taking and have sort of taken to it, but the mice wheels are fucking grating. i'm constantly switching, or on, new computers and they all seem to share trait of being able to scroll up but not functioning when it comes to scrolling down.

maybe wrong thread

There is a hate thread.

I assume you're talking about the old mice with the little trackball? It gets gummed up easy. Try pressing down hard and scrolling down over and over again, that usually cleans it up.

Or get a mouse you like and bring it with you. I use an old Kensington Trackball at home and a Wacom tablet w/ mouse at work.

yeah, that mighty mouse with the little scroll ball was awful, i've always hooked up a standard 2-button wheel mouse to my mac

I like that mouse and like the little trackball...you just have to be diligent about cleaning it.

the amount of time it's taking to sort out stuff like Notes Plus and Paper. Starting to worry that pen/drawing fluidity is terminally fucked on this thing.

Turns out most drawing apps are lazily relying on the CPU and need to be rebuilt. Apparently Procreate is GPU-centric and glides like silk.

I try hard not to procreate though

I'm considering taking up santeria so I can keep my old MacBook Pro alive for another month (five years old and subject to a lot of hard living) or so until the new model comes out.

i know right, this is nailbitingly tense, two of my keys just stopped working in the last week, the grounding prong fell off the AC power adaptor AND my hard drive has been making suspicious noises

;_; we are now officially an all-Mac household as my 5 year old PC died two nights ago

really hope I can salvage the hard drive (thank God I had my iTunes library on an external disk)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57413641-37/apple-to-unveil-revolutionary-product-this-year-says-designer/

yay get to recycle my "iBrator" joke

philippe-starck-is-full-of-shit-all-the-time-says-me

revoltionary product is just going to be an apple television thing, w/ gestural controls, i bet

philippe starck will not be the designer of whatever product it is

does lacie still sell those hard drives designed by the same guys who designed a porsche?

like, when I have people over at my house, that's the first thing I gesture to, my hard drive that looks like a porsche

then you should get the phone, the luggage, the sunglasses, the clothes....

http://www.porsche-design.com/international/en/

http://allthingsd.com/20120413/apple-we-dont-know-what-philippe-starck-is-talking-about/

there it is

He meant SNAPPLE.

porsche design != porsche car design, although they're related

macbook pro imminent death watch:

the keyboard / mouse suddenly stopped working until i rebooted. the mouse pointer was on the screen and the text cursor was blinking but i couldn't do anything, even the caps lock light wasn't coming on when i was tapping it.

i did a full cold power cycle and it fixed the keyboard/mouse thing but now my screen inverts the colors when i tap on it.

guess some wires are busted.

people who have the new ipad, what are the file sizes of new retina enabled apps like? I'm probably going to get one in the next few weeks and i'm debating 16 vs 32.

I would also like the answer to this question.

love the new rumors today about macbook pros at wwdc

"ok, well the april release rumors are proven false, which proves they're definitely going to release it at wwdc"

Am hoping for iPad mini at wwdc. Also a slim down non-fat format for apps because the retina ones are massive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strategy-aims-at-low-tax-states-and-nations.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Apple's fantastical tax-avoiding magic.

Apple, for instance, was among the first tech companies to designate overseas salespeople in high-tax countries in a manner that allowed them to sell on behalf of low-tax subsidiaries on other continents, sidestepping income taxes, according to former executives. Apple was a pioneer of an accounting technique known as the “Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich,” which reduces taxes by routing profits through Irish subsidiaries and the Netherlands and then to the Caribbean. Today, that tactic is used by hundreds of other corporations — some of which directly imitated Apple’s methods, say accountants at those companies.

Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich

Have read this exact same story about Google I'm pretty sure. Dropping in the quote from the community college president blaming California's budget crisis on Apple's accounting is some classy journalism right there.

The magic of taxes are basically that states and the federal government have baked enough loopholes in that were there to encourage business of one sort or another that companies that are national or international can jump through them and get taxed less by expanding their financial web.

The size issue for Retina apps is basically another media invention. The reason Garageband and iMovie got so much larger in the last update was because of new features / themes, not because of the graphics.

tbh I don't know if "loopholes" really does the issue justice. Certainly you have jurisdictions that have made corporate tax rates extra low to "attract business" but the problem is really the ease with which a modern global corporation can take advantage of its global reach to avoid taxes, especially a tech corp. "Loophole" implies there's some little clause in the tax code that can just be changed or removed. This seems much harder to deal with than that.

I'm a software developer. Loopholes are very, very structurally relevant when you have a large infrastructure -- like our entire tax code -- using them extensively.

imo you either have to do an intense reworking of large portions of the tax system or throw out most of what we have in the US and rewrite it from the ground up -- but everyone who wants to do the latter is a nut like Herman Cain or Steve Forbes

The problem though is that it's not just one tax code, it's one federal, fifty states and 100-something foreign countries. You'd have to get some crazy level of international cooperation to really address it fully.

Oh, certainly. Any money made abroad is a lost cause, but anything inside the US might be able to be stomped at the federal level. Is a company doing business in California but existing for Nevada for tax purposes by definition engaged in interstate commerce?

A company "doing business" in California will pay tax on the "business" that it does in California, as I understand it, but how that's actually defined is trickier.

I saw a cashier at tj's today whose name was siri

i got an iPad 3 for my birthday. Thanks, PP! I wanted one with 4G this time around so I took it to the apple store and of course they forced me to go through a setup tutorial. The dude shows me Dictation and wants me to try it out during which several people, who may or may not have worked there, were thoroughly entertained by the completely incorrect text resulting from my Australian accent and then again by the different but just as wrong text results using my faux american accent (which is really just me talking a lot louder with a twang and lots of rrrrrrrs on the end of words). Why you all laughing at me when its your product fucking up fucking lames

they're laughing at you cause they're geniuses

my faux american accent (which is really just me talking a lot louder with a twang and lots of rrrrrrrs on the end of words)

<3

rrrrrrhotic foreverrrrr USA USA

in France there is a thing everybody says when they're imitating Americans, it goes something like

"WATAH MATAH GETAH FORRRRRRRR"

I love that every product on the MacRumors Buyer's Guide is marked as Don't Buy - Updates Soon

On the other hand, GREAT CTHULHU WHEN IS APPLE GOING TO RELEASE THE NEW MACBOOK PRO? MINE IS 5 YEARS OLD AND VERY TIRED. WANT NEW SHINY THING BECAUSE I WORK ON IT AND GENERATES MONEY FOR OTHER COOL THINGS.

hey you don't have to justify to me, man, go for it

apple has done nothing spectacular for industrial design since jobso died iirc

It's just that I have to grit teeth until the Ivy Bridge-powered MBPs are released. It's significant enough of an architecture improvement that it's worth the wait. I think HP might have already announced theirs, I'm just waiting for the white smoke to appear on the roof of 1 Infinite Loop.