Just to clarify, Apple wasn't castigated for what they did. They were castigated for *not communicating* what they did, which caused people to think that Apple was intentionally nurfing older phones to make their new ones look better.
If Apple had pulled their head out and not acted in their usual "We know better than everyone else, just trust us" way, then the situation would never have blown up as it had.
In addition, the price of the battery repair was much higher prior to the outcry. They only dropped the price afterwards, which made it seem like an ass-covering maneuver rather than a positive gesture.
Apple has made a lot of very questionable decisions in recent years that have been distinctly anti-consumer, and their reality distortion field doesn't extend nearly as far as it used to, so a lot more people are a lot less likely to give them a free pass for this behaviour.
Except that they *haven't* handled it "just fine for years". If it had been, then "idiots" wouldn't have been going around saying that they needed to micromanage their device.
I mean, seriously, you are so utterly wrong that I can only assume that you posted for the express purpose of starting an argument.
There are plenty of examples of random apps that run uncontrolled background processes that utterly destroy battery life. Hell, some of those apps are installed by the *manufacturer*, such as the suite of bullshit that Samsung installs (or at least used to, don't know if they still do) on their phones. So no, micromanaging your phone *is* necessary. A user that doesn't have the skill to manage their phone will simply return their phone, claim it's broken, and get a different one, lather rinse repeat.
Having background processes killed automatically is the expected result of developers not doing a good enough job of handling the process management themselves.
Why is it that iOS doesn't have this problem? Because iOS doesn't grant virtually unlimited access of resources to background processes. People may have a lot of complains about iOS, but having to micromanage their devices because of shitty apps is not one of those things.
The issue isn't a matter of being anti-drone. The issue is that people have already proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they cannot be trusted with the responsibility of operating drones. Flying drones into the path of planes, etc.
People want the freedom but they don't want the responsibility. Sorry, you can't and shouldn't have it both ways.
What you are talking about is tangental to my point.
You are specifically trying to use a phone for a purpose it was never made for. You could accomplish the same thing with an arduino or a raspberry pi.
The fact that you *can* do it with a phone is pretty cool, and I see no problem with giving people the option to hack their phone to pieces if they so choose.
But when the average person buys a phone and takes it out of the box, it is an appliance. An advanced appliance that can run arbitrary software, but it's an appliance none-the-less, and *expecting* users to don their sysadmin hat *just* to maintain their phone is completely unacceptable.
Except that up until USB-C, the world had standardize (more or less) on "one port = one protocol".
USB-C breaks that, so just because the port fits, it doesn't mean the device and cable can actually communicate with each other. This is like when SCSI and printers used the same 25-pin port, but 100x worse.
USB-C puts the responsibility of compatibility on the user instead of the manufacturer where it rightfully belongs.
Wrong question. The real question is why should a user HAVE to manage their phone like a sysadmin?
It's a phone. It's an *appliance*. If a user is required to manage their phone to such a degree, then there are severe and fundamental flaws in the phone's OS.
This all stems from the fact that Google gave developers too much control, and developers treated phones as if they were PCs instead of embedded mobile devices. As much as I hate to say it, Apple was right to start with a locked down OS. It is always more difficult to take away permissions and capabilities than it is to gradually give them.
It's been very well established at this point that developers cannot be trusted to do this properly, so it's up to the OS to be tight-fisted in how apps operate. This is especially true when it comes to limited-resource devices like phones. Now Android is in the completely expected position of trying to lock things down without breaking half the apps on the app store.
There is no "two sides" to this. This problem falls squarely in the laps of the Republicans.
Trump had an entire year to get this pushed through when the Reps had all three branches of gov't. He didn't.
It only suddenly became a burning priority when the democrats took the house. There is only one side being childish right now, and that's been the case for a while now.
(Yes, the democrats have their issues, but those issues are not what caused this current mess.)
Except that isn't a punishment for anyone except the lower-level staff. You the the executives care if the company goes belly up? They'll just jump with their golden parachutes, start a new company, and go their merry way.
This mindset that it is acceptable for executives to get away scott free when they cause a major fuck up, just blows my mind. If any other person screws up, then at minimum they would be fired. But execs? Nope! Gosh golly sir! How terrible for you! Can I get you another martini?
The problem is that an app won't be able to solve these issues because they are inherently hardware dependent. You need a microphone/headset that is super-sensitive. Of course, the other side of that is you can't have a super-sensitive microphone that doesn't also pick up everything around you as well.
Maybe a directional mic of some kind?
While I haven't looked for an autotuning-during-calls tool myself, I would expect that you should be able to find such an item for Android. I think a similar tool on iOS would be unlikely cause Apple very rigidly controls what apps can do on their hardware, but I could be wrong.
If you can't find hardware to do at least some of your list of requirements, then your best option would probably to just not use the phone. Use text, or maybe a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal that lets you communicate walkie-talkie style. That could serve as a starting point to a workflow that incorporates autotuning software.
Labour has never had value. People don't care about how much effort something takes. People don't care how many years of experience you need to build up in order to accomplish said thing. In a world where people treat the Dunning Kruger effect as a personal accomplishment, it can be very difficult for people to see the value in your skills.
This is particularly notable for people in the computer industry (not to mention any kind of design field). "But my teenage nephew can do that in a fraction of the time, and all for a bag of cheetos!"
Below is a list of things I would trust sooner than I would trust Facebook to be anywhere near anything as sensitive as a financial transaction:
-Tap water from Flint -A rattlesnake with a "pet me" sign -free drinks from Bill Cosby -gas station sushi -emails from Nigerian Princes -A bigfoot sighting
When I came across Rocket Chat, my first thought was, "I wish this was available before we went to Slack." Cause now that we're on Slack, it's one of those, "Don't fix what ain't broke" problems.
Looks like Slack took it upon themselves to fix that.
Except it wasn't a ridiculous patent. It was industrial design, and Samsung *did* blatantly copy it in an effort to make a phone that was a near identical iphone clone. It was more akin to copyright than patent.
You can't patent industrial design. Or at least, you're not supposed to be able to.
It's one thing to label things due to, say potential allergic reactions, etc. It's another thing to label things to validate knee-jerk hysteria.
I for one welcome lab-grown overl... meat. It's infinitely better controlled, which means: -overwhelmingly lower risk of foreign bodies like bacteria, prions, etc. -dramatically reduced need for animals, which unfortunately hurts meat farmers but is ultimately far more sustainable. For example, it reduces global deforestation because there's less incentive to burn down forests to create grazing lands. -significantly easier to regulate, maintain and verify quality, etc. -dramatic cut to greenhouse gas production (ie: cow farts).
I'm of mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, they're right. Google should *not* have the control of the web that it does. We've seen it before with Microsoft and there's no way it will end well.
On the other hand, I pointed my Schadenfreude meter at Microsoft and it exploded.
Employers will let employees go without severance or adequate notice.
You say that as if they haven't been doing this already, for a very long time now.
While I can't say that I agree with idea of ghosting (it's pretty unprofessional and risks burning bidges), I can certainly understand the motivation. Especially if it was done to the kind of employer that would sell their own mother for a wooden nickle, like far too many companies do.
In other words, Trump has decided to put Canada into a no-win situation. Either deny the extradition request and piss off the US for not kissing Trump's ass (which Trump will use to start a whole new pissing match with Canada), or piss off China for giving her to the US to use as a petty hostage tactic.
When Trump was voted in, I knew it couldn't possibly end well. What I couldn't have anticipated was just how much of a total clusterfuck he would cause.
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Just to clarify, Apple wasn't castigated for what they did. They were castigated for *not communicating* what they did, which caused people to think that Apple was intentionally nurfing older phones to make their new ones look better.
If Apple had pulled their head out and not acted in their usual "We know better than everyone else, just trust us" way, then the situation would never have blown up as it had.
In addition, the price of the battery repair was much higher prior to the outcry. They only dropped the price afterwards, which made it seem like an ass-covering maneuver rather than a positive gesture.
Apple has made a lot of very questionable decisions in recent years that have been distinctly anti-consumer, and their reality distortion field doesn't extend nearly as far as it used to, so a lot more people are a lot less likely to give them a free pass for this behaviour.
Apple needs to realize that and adapt.
Well, ackshully...
It turns out they do!
https://academic.oup.com/aob/a...
Except that they *haven't* handled it "just fine for years". If it had been, then "idiots" wouldn't have been going around saying that they needed to micromanage their device.
I mean, seriously, you are so utterly wrong that I can only assume that you posted for the express purpose of starting an argument.
There are plenty of examples of random apps that run uncontrolled background processes that utterly destroy battery life. Hell, some of those apps are installed by the *manufacturer*, such as the suite of bullshit that Samsung installs (or at least used to, don't know if they still do) on their phones. So no, micromanaging your phone *is* necessary. A user that doesn't have the skill to manage their phone will simply return their phone, claim it's broken, and get a different one, lather rinse repeat.
Having background processes killed automatically is the expected result of developers not doing a good enough job of handling the process management themselves.
Why is it that iOS doesn't have this problem? Because iOS doesn't grant virtually unlimited access of resources to background processes. People may have a lot of complains about iOS, but having to micromanage their devices because of shitty apps is not one of those things.
The issue isn't a matter of being anti-drone. The issue is that people have already proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they cannot be trusted with the responsibility of operating drones. Flying drones into the path of planes, etc.
People want the freedom but they don't want the responsibility. Sorry, you can't and shouldn't have it both ways.
The calibre of skill required to make a functioning operating system is just a little bit higher than the skill required to slap together a fart app.
What you are talking about is tangental to my point.
You are specifically trying to use a phone for a purpose it was never made for. You could accomplish the same thing with an arduino or a raspberry pi.
The fact that you *can* do it with a phone is pretty cool, and I see no problem with giving people the option to hack their phone to pieces if they so choose.
But when the average person buys a phone and takes it out of the box, it is an appliance. An advanced appliance that can run arbitrary software, but it's an appliance none-the-less, and *expecting* users to don their sysadmin hat *just* to maintain their phone is completely unacceptable.
Except that up until USB-C, the world had standardize (more or less) on "one port = one protocol".
USB-C breaks that, so just because the port fits, it doesn't mean the device and cable can actually communicate with each other. This is like when SCSI and printers used the same 25-pin port, but 100x worse.
USB-C puts the responsibility of compatibility on the user instead of the manufacturer where it rightfully belongs.
How does anybody manage all of that?
Wrong question. The real question is why should a user HAVE to manage their phone like a sysadmin?
It's a phone. It's an *appliance*. If a user is required to manage their phone to such a degree, then there are severe and fundamental flaws in the phone's OS.
This all stems from the fact that Google gave developers too much control, and developers treated phones as if they were PCs instead of embedded mobile devices. As much as I hate to say it, Apple was right to start with a locked down OS. It is always more difficult to take away permissions and capabilities than it is to gradually give them.
It's been very well established at this point that developers cannot be trusted to do this properly, so it's up to the OS to be tight-fisted in how apps operate. This is especially true when it comes to limited-resource devices like phones. Now Android is in the completely expected position of trying to lock things down without breaking half the apps on the app store.
lol ok
brought to you by someone who understands neither Microsoft 20 years ago or Google now
Another useless comment brought to you by an AC that doesn't understand basic punctuation.
There is no "two sides" to this. This problem falls squarely in the laps of the Republicans.
Trump had an entire year to get this pushed through when the Reps had all three branches of gov't. He didn't.
It only suddenly became a burning priority when the democrats took the house. There is only one side being childish right now, and that's been the case for a while now.
(Yes, the democrats have their issues, but those issues are not what caused this current mess.)
Then why is anything better than spray-cheese so bloody expensive?
Except that isn't a punishment for anyone except the lower-level staff. You the the executives care if the company goes belly up? They'll just jump with their golden parachutes, start a new company, and go their merry way.
This mindset that it is acceptable for executives to get away scott free when they cause a major fuck up, just blows my mind. If any other person screws up, then at minimum they would be fired. But execs? Nope! Gosh golly sir! How terrible for you! Can I get you another martini?
The problem is that an app won't be able to solve these issues because they are inherently hardware dependent. You need a microphone/headset that is super-sensitive. Of course, the other side of that is you can't have a super-sensitive microphone that doesn't also pick up everything around you as well.
Maybe a directional mic of some kind?
While I haven't looked for an autotuning-during-calls tool myself, I would expect that you should be able to find such an item for Android. I think a similar tool on iOS would be unlikely cause Apple very rigidly controls what apps can do on their hardware, but I could be wrong.
If you can't find hardware to do at least some of your list of requirements, then your best option would probably to just not use the phone. Use text, or maybe a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal that lets you communicate walkie-talkie style. That could serve as a starting point to a workflow that incorporates autotuning software.
offering to let the tortured choose when and how they are tortured
Oh! I choose to be hung by my toes over a pot of boiling Limburger cheese while being forced to listen to Trumps speeches set to polka music.
Oh great, here come the BDSMers.
What do you mean "when"?
Labour has never had value. People don't care about how much effort something takes. People don't care how many years of experience you need to build up in order to accomplish said thing. In a world where people treat the Dunning Kruger effect as a personal accomplishment, it can be very difficult for people to see the value in your skills.
This is particularly notable for people in the computer industry (not to mention any kind of design field). "But my teenage nephew can do that in a fraction of the time, and all for a bag of cheetos!"
The Oatmeal has a great example of this: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/...
Are they serious? After everything they've done?
Below is a list of things I would trust sooner than I would trust Facebook to be anywhere near anything as sensitive as a financial transaction:
-Tap water from Flint
-A rattlesnake with a "pet me" sign
-free drinks from Bill Cosby
-gas station sushi
-emails from Nigerian Princes
-A bigfoot sighting
When I came across Rocket Chat, my first thought was, "I wish this was available before we went to Slack." Cause now that we're on Slack, it's one of those, "Don't fix what ain't broke" problems.
Looks like Slack took it upon themselves to fix that.
https://rocket.chat/
Except it wasn't a ridiculous patent. It was industrial design, and Samsung *did* blatantly copy it in an effort to make a phone that was a near identical iphone clone. It was more akin to copyright than patent.
You can't patent industrial design. Or at least, you're not supposed to be able to.
every time Windows Sandbox runs, it's as clean as a brand-new installation of Windows.
So it's going to preinstall a whole bunch of crap (Candy Crush Saga, Solitaire Collection, Photoshop elements, etc) I didn't asked for or want?
A brand new install of Windows 10 is about as pristine as a snow pile in a dog park.
They've started charging for the JDK.
I don't know about other people, but they seem to be fond of gassing themselves.
I would have agreed with you, but then you said
.so I can readily avoid this shit.
It's one thing to label things due to, say potential allergic reactions, etc. It's another thing to label things to validate knee-jerk hysteria.
I for one welcome lab-grown overl... meat. It's infinitely better controlled, which means:
-overwhelmingly lower risk of foreign bodies like bacteria, prions, etc.
-dramatically reduced need for animals, which unfortunately hurts meat farmers but is ultimately far more sustainable. For example, it reduces global deforestation because there's less incentive to burn down forests to create grazing lands.
-significantly easier to regulate, maintain and verify quality, etc.
-dramatic cut to greenhouse gas production (ie: cow farts).
And that's just off the top of my head.
I'm of mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, they're right. Google should *not* have the control of the web that it does. We've seen it before with Microsoft and there's no way it will end well.
On the other hand, I pointed my Schadenfreude meter at Microsoft and it exploded.
Employers will let employees go without severance or adequate notice.
You say that as if they haven't been doing this already, for a very long time now.
While I can't say that I agree with idea of ghosting (it's pretty unprofessional and risks burning bidges), I can certainly understand the motivation. Especially if it was done to the kind of employer that would sell their own mother for a wooden nickle, like far too many companies do.
In other words, Trump has decided to put Canada into a no-win situation. Either deny the extradition request and piss off the US for not kissing Trump's ass (which Trump will use to start a whole new pissing match with Canada), or piss off China for giving her to the US to use as a petty hostage tactic.
When Trump was voted in, I knew it couldn't possibly end well. What I couldn't have anticipated was just how much of a total clusterfuck he would cause.
People welfare: Bad
Corporate welfare. Good