Amazon's problem is that Apple and Google want a cut of in-app digital purchases. Amazon has refused so far, going so far as to violate the ToS and have their apps removed from the App Store and Play Store.
This move is just a new attempt to negotiate lower IAP royalties. If that fails, it's possible Amazon may release an AppleTV app with the same restrictions as their current iOS app, which can play but not purchase videos. Worst case, AirPlay from a iOS device still works fine with no loss in image quality.
It wasn't that they tore the thing apart, it's that they published said teardown on their web site.
In exchange for pre-release hardware you have to sit on any reviews, teardowns, unboxing videos or other public commentary until the release date. That's just how it works.
iFixit admits they violated their agreement with Apple. Apple didn't sue them or anything particularly nasty, they simply disabled their developer account which unfortunately was also the account iFixit used for their app.
Now iFixit will probably apologize to Apple until they get they get their account reinstated, and hopefully a few people will have learned that NDAs actually mean something.
I don't know, Star Trek suggests to me that starships typically have a crew of around seven people: * Captain * First Officer * Helmsman * Chief Engineer * Science Officer * Doctor * Security Officer
...and also a bunch of passengers who walk around the ship carrying tablets, pressing buttons, and getting themselves killed in interesting ways.
1. You can buy a new Mac plus iPhone for half that. Replace the iPhone with an iPod Touch or iPad to save a few hundred more. Used devices also work fine.
2. With minor tweaking you can get OS X running in a VM, use XCode's iOS simulator to do most of your development testing, and invite friend(s) with iOS devices to do on-device beta testing.
3. Then again, if you have no interest in owning or using an Apple product, it's probably best you don't develop for the platform.
There are several potential reasons for high average speeds, including:
* The country has built an excellent LTE network.
* The network is underutilized because LTE phones or plans are expensive or not yet widely adopted.
* The network has limited coverage; a country with fast LTE in cities and 2G in sparser districts will counterintuitively have a higher average LTE speed than another country with fast LTE in cities and slower LTE in the back country.
* The country is as a whole densely populated with few rural areas pulling down the average speed.
In short, 'average LTE speed' is a rather useless datum without the necessary context.
Now please stick in in an external Thunderbolt 3 box, so I don't have to buy a $2500 gaming laptop that weighs a stone and will be obsolete in six months when the next GPU comes out.
The ad blocking software I'd like to see would detect and zap into a heap of ash those unrelated-photo clickbait ads; I'd rather suffer through some honest banner ads anytime.
You mean like the Taboola crap my ad blocker is currently removing from the bottom of Slashdot pages (even though I have ads disabled on my account)?
Apple makes it a point to stick to the high end where they can dominate profits without dominating markets (and all the regulations that comes with that).
While I'm sure this case was purely political, the verdict is arguably valid. Microsoft got in far more trouble over IE, which was nothing compared to the level of Google bundling in stock Android.
Of course, a lot has changed since 2001 and it's hard to imagine unbundling Google services from popular Android devices. Amazon is the only company I can think of that offers services for Android anything close to Google's, maybe this could be a win for them.
That's mostly true of small laser printer cartridges with an integrated developer. In those cartridges the developer roller grabs toner directly from the toner chamber. If the toner isn't evenly distributed, some parts of the roller get more or less toner than others, causing streaks.
Higher grade lasers have a separate developer and drum unit. The toner cartridge is just a hopper; gravity pulls the toner into a trough with an auger that leads to the developer assembly. Unless the toner somehow gets completely jammed inside the cartridge (unlikely) shaking the cartridge is completely unnecessary and won't accomplish anything.
Large laser printers and copiers often forego cartridges entirely and simply have permanently attached, refillable toner hoppers. Good luck shaking that.
(Side note: As a rule of thumb, the larger the printer, the cheaper / longer-lasting the consumables, and if you print more than a few pages a day the consumables will eventually dwarf the cost of the printer. For the past decade at my house I've had a $1000 office printer and a $100 personal printer, and they've both seen similar use. Guess which one has had the lowest TCO?)
Ink dries. If your printer didn't flush the color ink periodically it would likely damage the print head.
I agree that ink is absurdly overpriced and printers designed for profit over efficiency. However, you're mostly suffering from not using the right tool for the job—inkjet printers are built for photos while laser/LED printers excel at text and business graphics.
A cheap monochrome laser would run circles around your printers in speed, crispness, and reliability, with far lower cost per page and no ink to dry out.
If you're wearing a VR helmet, wouldn't an Oculus Touch-like hand controller be much better than a smartphone?
By 'slicing plane' I mean the ability to quickly snap a cross section view of a 3D model at any location at angle, for visualization or editing with a conventional 2D screen and tools.
Adjusting the viewport in 3D editing apps is something of a chore, even with tools like the SpacePilot... it would be nice to use a smartphone as a poor man's virtual camera, to view a scene from any position and angle as if it were floating in front of my workstation... then capture and send that viewport to the PC for editing.
Why not use the accelerometer to track XYZ movement instead of just rotation? Making the user use the touchscreen while holding the phone in random orientations seems like a horrible UI.
On the other hand, the principle has some merit. Using a phone as a slicing plane in 3D space could be clever in a different application.
Slashdot Mirror
"Collect all the shit you have left your dog"
The southern hemisphere never ceases to amaze me.
Also, please move the first button to the end, so I can read it as 'effing twit'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Apple and Google demand a cut of revenues for purchases made via their devices, Amazon refuses, customers roll their eyes.
Amazon's problem is that Apple and Google want a cut of in-app digital purchases. Amazon has refused so far, going so far as to violate the ToS and have their apps removed from the App Store and Play Store.
This move is just a new attempt to negotiate lower IAP royalties. If that fails, it's possible Amazon may release an AppleTV app with the same restrictions as their current iOS app, which can play but not purchase videos. Worst case, AirPlay from a iOS device still works fine with no loss in image quality.
It wasn't that they tore the thing apart, it's that they published said teardown on their web site.
In exchange for pre-release hardware you have to sit on any reviews, teardowns, unboxing videos or other public commentary until the release date. That's just how it works.
iFixit admits they violated their agreement with Apple. Apple didn't sue them or anything particularly nasty, they simply disabled their developer account which unfortunately was also the account iFixit used for their app.
Now iFixit will probably apologize to Apple until they get they get their account reinstated, and hopefully a few people will have learned that NDAs actually mean something.
No, the new model will be officially released later this month. iFixit tore down one of these.
I don't know, Star Trek suggests to me that starships typically have a crew of around seven people:
* Captain
* First Officer
* Helmsman
* Chief Engineer
* Science Officer
* Doctor
* Security Officer
I'm pretty sure they already did. Try this.
Speaking of, I don't think is Microsoft attacking Google per se, more damage control for the Windows spying fiasco.
https://glimmerblocker.org/
1. You can buy a new Mac plus iPhone for half that. Replace the iPhone with an iPod Touch or iPad to save a few hundred more. Used devices also work fine.
2. With minor tweaking you can get OS X running in a VM, use XCode's iOS simulator to do most of your development testing, and invite friend(s) with iOS devices to do on-device beta testing.
3. Then again, if you have no interest in owning or using an Apple product, it's probably best you don't develop for the platform.
4. http://www.penny-arcade.com/co...
There are several potential reasons for high average speeds, including:
* The country has built an excellent LTE network.
* The network is underutilized because LTE phones or plans are expensive or not yet widely adopted.
* The network has limited coverage; a country with fast LTE in cities and 2G in sparser districts will counterintuitively have a higher average LTE speed than another country with fast LTE in cities and slower LTE in the back country.
* The country is as a whole densely populated with few rural areas pulling down the average speed.
In short, 'average LTE speed' is a rather useless datum without the necessary context.
USA is near the top in LTE penetration. It's easy to have high speeds when you've got the tower to yourself...
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Now please stick in in an external Thunderbolt 3 box, so I don't have to buy a $2500 gaming laptop that weighs a stone and will be obsolete in six months when the next GPU comes out.
Giant robots fighting giant robots is its own reward.
The ad blocking software I'd like to see would detect and zap into a heap of ash those unrelated-photo clickbait ads; I'd rather suffer through some honest banner ads anytime.
You mean like the Taboola crap my ad blocker is currently removing from the bottom of Slashdot pages (even though I have ads disabled on my account)?
Apple makes it a point to stick to the high end where they can dominate profits without dominating markets (and all the regulations that comes with that).
While I'm sure this case was purely political, the verdict is arguably valid. Microsoft got in far more trouble over IE, which was nothing compared to the level of Google bundling in stock Android.
Of course, a lot has changed since 2001 and it's hard to imagine unbundling Google services from popular Android devices. Amazon is the only company I can think of that offers services for Android anything close to Google's, maybe this could be a win for them.
That's mostly true of small laser printer cartridges with an integrated developer. In those cartridges the developer roller grabs toner directly from the toner chamber. If the toner isn't evenly distributed, some parts of the roller get more or less toner than others, causing streaks.
Higher grade lasers have a separate developer and drum unit. The toner cartridge is just a hopper; gravity pulls the toner into a trough with an auger that leads to the developer assembly. Unless the toner somehow gets completely jammed inside the cartridge (unlikely) shaking the cartridge is completely unnecessary and won't accomplish anything.
Large laser printers and copiers often forego cartridges entirely and simply have permanently attached, refillable toner hoppers. Good luck shaking that.
(Side note: As a rule of thumb, the larger the printer, the cheaper / longer-lasting the consumables, and if you print more than a few pages a day the consumables will eventually dwarf the cost of the printer. For the past decade at my house I've had a $1000 office printer and a $100 personal printer, and they've both seen similar use. Guess which one has had the lowest TCO?)
Ink dries. If your printer didn't flush the color ink periodically it would likely damage the print head.
I agree that ink is absurdly overpriced and printers designed for profit over efficiency. However, you're mostly suffering from not using the right tool for the job—inkjet printers are built for photos while laser/LED printers excel at text and business graphics.
A cheap monochrome laser would run circles around your printers in speed, crispness, and reliability, with far lower cost per page and no ink to dry out.
If you're wearing a VR helmet, wouldn't an Oculus Touch-like hand controller be much better than a smartphone?
By 'slicing plane' I mean the ability to quickly snap a cross section view of a 3D model at any location at angle, for visualization or editing with a conventional 2D screen and tools.
Adjusting the viewport in 3D editing apps is something of a chore, even with tools like the SpacePilot... it would be nice to use a smartphone as a poor man's virtual camera, to view a scene from any position and angle as if it were floating in front of my workstation... then capture and send that viewport to the PC for editing.
Why not use the accelerometer to track XYZ movement instead of just rotation? Making the user use the touchscreen while holding the phone in random orientations seems like a horrible UI.
On the other hand, the principle has some merit. Using a phone as a slicing plane in 3D space could be clever in a different application.
And a curious fixation to cake.
iOS is similar, and uses long presses as extra actions in various places.
It reminds me of long clicking with a single button mouse (shudder).
It supports MFi controllers, and the brief demo of the app store listed a game with the feature 'game controllers optional'.
Unfortunately without a reference gamepad we can expect the same mess that is Android/iOS (and for that matter, PC prior to the 360 controller).