As a parent, though, who's son rode the bus for 3 years, my first question would be if this will lengthen bus rides? (A 4% reduction in cost for a 20% increase in ride times would be a definite non-starter in my book.)
No, I didn't RTFA.
Why are you so concerned? I rode the bus a long time myself. My bus ride was 20 minutes. Let's round it up to an even 25 minutes. Now we increase that by 20% and it takes an extra 5 minutes. Since we're talking 5 minutes each way, it would cost an extra 10 minutes a day. If it's an hour long bus ride, then you're talking about 12 minutes, and the round trip is closer to a half an hour of extra time. But I doubt that there are routes in Boston that take that long, as it's a relatively urban area. So, what kind of bus ride did your son have that this 20% increase is a non-starter for you? And what would you have had him do with those extra 10-25 minutes anyway?
Facebook is not one of them, however Facebook "accidentally" registered their app as a media player and they'd play a silent mp3 in the background to get around iOS trying to freeze the app when it wasn't in use. Apple had a quiet chat to Facebook and this has apparently stopped.
It has not stopped, at least not in the last few weeks. Play audio, open Facebook app, browse through some pages, click on a link that opens the facebook browser and *BAM* your audio is now hijacked by a completely inaudible MP3. The only time I ever look at Facebook is when I am sitting in the waiting room of a doctor's office or some place like that. I listen to music while I sit there and wait and this drives me insane.
Boeing Field is where a lot of mods for military plane are done. Operational flights do not take place from Boeing Field. Most likly what's going on is the plane is undergoing mods and they are testing these mods in the local area.
If this were an operational flight, more likly the plane would be down at McChord Field, where I work. We do have the 22 Special Forces here at McChord, but spy planes, usually the big 135 mods, fly in and out of here all the time. Sometimes they stay a few days, who knows what they are up to.
It's interesting that someone spotted this, but the whole "spying on Seattle" thing is a joke. That's not what's happening.
I'd honestly be very surprised if Boeing did any upgrades on equipment right out of that particular facility, though I could be mistaken. I know that they modify Navy aircraft to the latest hardware revisions down in Florida. I've been to the facility personally. They modify certain Army helicopters in Arizona. They have facilities all over the US that specialize in specific aircraft and, to my knowledge, only do the commercial stuff out of WA.
Do people really "upgrade" processors? I mean, I've been building computers for almost 20 years now and I think I got over the whole idea of upgrading the processor after the first time, circa 1997.
Outside of the gimmicky super-shredder-killer-fps-man-slayer motherboards, it's not like they have been the most expensive part of a computer build for a long time. Introducing a new video card incompatibility like the transition from PCI -> AGP -> PCI Express would be a whole different story.
I did a few years ago. I wanted to build a home server with a XEON processor that was so expensive that I did not want to make the initial purchase. So, I built a system with a really cheap i3 that cost me about $70 and waited until the EOL on the XEON processor. Then I bought it brand new for $120 instead of the ~$600 it originally retailed for. I dropped it in and away I went.
OK, the numbers are "real" in that "that is how much space the app is taking on Apple's server". It is not real in that "this is not the size of the files being moved to your device."
What those numbers include: Multiple assemblies for different architecture platforms. The whole 32/64 bit thing is rearing its ugly head. There are also shared assemblies, not all of which get sent to your device (because they might already be there).
Source: I'm an app developer who has had to explain this a few times as well.
Sure that increases the size some but how exactly do you explain a 478.8MB Facebook install? 2 years of health-kit data doesn't even take up half that much space, including the health-kit app itself. And if you add in the cached data that my Facebook app has saved right now? It's almost a gig. Ridiculous.
The updates may be much smaller, but the end result is still massively bloated. I killed off my Facebook app when I needed space and iOS was telling me that FB was taking up around 400MB. Sure, the innumerable updates are relatively small, but that's of less consequence anyway if not doing updates over a mobile data plan.
Relatively small? Facebook pushes an update to the store every week that is on the order of 250MB per week! Are they really changing that much? Is the update slimming process not working for Facebook? Why does Facebook's app even need that much space? It's a glorified Safari web app, lets be honest. Except that the site is actually easier to use in Safari than their app, or at least used to be until they started looking at the user agent and stripping out functionality to try and get you to install Facebook Messenger.
I was going to write a post nearly identical to yours. After about 3 generations of backup tape technology and not ONCE getting anything useful off a backup tape, I quit tape forever. Now I just try to keep my stuff under 1 TB (er, 2 TB, er, 3 TB) and image to a backup drive of the same capacity.
Yeah I keep my data down to about 2TB of just the most important (or difficult to reproduce) items. Then I use a tool to sync the data to external drives that are removed. I've got 3. One that stays in the fireproof safe and gets updated once every few months, one that stays in the safe and (theoretically) gets updated and rotated every 2 weeks. And one that stays in my desk drawer that gets synced every other week in rotation with the drive in the safe. In practice I usually just end up syncing every month or so when I have new pictures or whatever.
Sounds to me while this may (or may not) be well-intentioned, it'll be abused to censor online discussions, having a chilling effect on peoples freedom of speech.
Furthermore, as others in this discussion have already pointed out, sex traffickers will just learn to hide their posts better. The net effect will then be infringement on the rights of people who are doing nothing wrong, and sex trafficking will continue unabated.
Really sounds to me like they just need to enforce the laws already on the books with regards to this sort of illegal activity, and nevermind creating new legislation.
I wonder if any of these senators have a website that hosts open forums / comment sections? If so, it can't be too hard to write a script that posts fake sex ads in their forums.
the person they're quoting is claiming that the platform itself is what makes Android behind Apple in photography
Gundotra? Isn't he the fired former tinpot dictator of Google's Android division? No chance of sour grapes there, no siree.
Yes there is certainly that chance. There's also the chance he's now working for or on behalf of Apple in some capacity. Who can possibly say? Like I said, I am in no position to evaluate that with accuracy, other than to say that there are areas where Android really does shoot itself in the foot. iOS, however, does the same thing in other areas. So there is a potential chance that he is being subjective here as it stands specifically with the camera functionality.
If your iphone camera is so great let's see it zoom without losing resolution
Not sure about the iPhones, but my partner had a Nokia 1020, which had a 40 megapixel sensor. You do lose resolution when you zoom (although it also had an optical zoom), but the resolution was sufficiently high that you typically didn't care. She's just replaced it with a newer Android phone because Windows Phone 8 is no longer getting security updates and a lot of TLS sites require newer cypher suites than it supports and the new camera is a lot worse.
Now take that Nokia 1020 on safari in Africa and take some close up shots of a lion doing its thing. Oh wait, you can't zoom far enough for that. There is a time and place for everything. When I'm out with friends and want to take an impromptu photo, my phone is what I reach for. When I'm heading to the Caribbean for a week, I take my waterproof camera. And when I'm going to a national park, wildlife spotting, or when I am trying to take a high quality image of basically anything planned in advance, I bring my dSLR.
It's ridiculous to begin with. Comparing a specific phone to a platform? Has there ever been a requirement for Android hardware vendors to only manufacture phones with good cameras?
Well the person they're quoting is claiming that the platform itself is what makes Android behind Apple in photography. I don't know enough about it to say so myself, but I do know with certainty that there are plenty of things that Android does (as a platform) that makes it hard to compete with Apple. Conversely, there are things that Apple does that makes it hard for them to compete with Google in certain areas. I know from personal experience that it is much easier to implement most software features for iOS than for Android. There are exceptions where Android shines, but dev work on Android is harder in general.
But you had already set it up beforehand, and not planned on using it?
My company had helped with the initial Apple Pay roll out and so I had wanted a chance to play with it myself when I got a new phone. But we had access to decrypt the payload, so I wanted to look at what it was doing more than actually use it for payment.
I am waving my cane at clouds with these... why do I want my phone to also be my credit card at the grocery store? I suppose I wouldn't mind have a thinner wallet but it isn't really any harder to get out of my pocket than my phone. Do you guys find this stuff useful?
Once. I took my dog for a walk on a hot summer day. I never bring my wallet on these walks. Well, I ran into a girl with a dog and she asked me if I wanted to walk with her and we went much further than I had planned for when I left the house. Decided to stop at McDonald's to get a water for the dog and some OJ for myself. Then I realized I didn't have my wallet, but I had my phone. In the ~ four years that I've had Apple pay, I've used it exactly once.
Pokemon Go users with maps implement notifications to indicate if a desired creature is available
Then I recommend that both of you install Chrome and use that. Problem solved
What of banks that notify you of suspicious transactions without installing a 100 mb app on your phone?
I might be a bit of a Luddite, but my bank uses two different types of technology for that. The first is a phone call, and the second is an SMS notification. Both work in those rare instances when I don't have data. SMS works when I don't even have enough signal to have a phone conversation. Furthermore, I trust my banking institution a lot more than I trust some random website on the internet. If I did not trust my bank, or their app, I would not have my money deposited with them.
As someone who has to fly two times a week, I can only say that belts with plastic buckles are godsend.
I've gone through the metal detector before and been forced to lift my shirt so they could see if I was wearing a belt. They made me walk back through the detector and put my belt onto the x-ray conveyor, then return through the metal detector. The detector did not go off once. I don't think they'd let you wear even a plastic belt through the body scanner.
You have a vehicle that gets 500 MPG? Somehow, your claim is less than believable.
You probably misread what he said. My car (which I drive about once every week or two) gets 24 miles per gallon on the highway. Assuming I don't drive it until it's completely empty, I can go about 350 miles per tank. That means I can do a 1000 mile trip in less than 3 full tanks. Drive something smaller and more practical and you can easily get over 500 miles in a single tank. My parents car has a 14 gallon tank and gets over 40MPG on the highway. That means they can do a 500 mile trip and still have 1.5 gallons to spare.
Whilst your electric might be free, running a 100-200W PC instead of 6W router is a little overkill for most people. The best solution, of course, is to be allowed to put new firmware on your existing router;-)
I have an LGA 1155 Xeon processor that has a TDP of 35W. I run an SSD in the thing, in a fanless case designed to cool using convection and the device averages about 10W draw. It has way more horsepower than your average router, too. However, you really need a purpose built chip to route traffic efficiently so it's better to use a purpose built router from that standpoint. You'll get better throughput.
You don't see 50 gallon garbage cans being emptied every week. You see a small truck collecting the trash of an entire neighborhood.
My experience living in a 2nd world country for about a year was that the neighborhoods usually just dump their trash in a common pile and burn it once a week or so. It's nasty and terrible for the environment. You could cut through a field between neighborhoods and find enough trash that it looked like you were on top of a landfill that wasn't being properly maintained after it was covered up and shutdown. Just trash everywhere.
Yes, yes, I know. Everything Apple does is one big Conspiracy.
The double tap on the home button to turn on the device and then go to the PIN entry adds exactly what functionality? None! At least let me swipe to get to the lock screen instead of wearing out a mechanical button on the device. And since the home button is the #1 thing to fail on an iPhone (besides cracked glass), how can you not claim it to be malicious on Apple's part? One of the first mods ever added by the jailbreak community was a soft home button so that you could use a device without replacing the button. That's how common of a problem it is and Apple did something that makes the problem worse.
You're kidding, right? The swipe left vs. right went completely unnoticed by me. I don't use that feature often enough to remember which way to swpie anyway!
I sometimes write software for Apple devices and have hardware that cannot be upgraded to the latest iOS. So some of my devices scroll through apps one way, and some of them scroll through the other. It's incredibly irritating when you switch devices. Sure, if you've only got one device you get used to it pretty quickly but again it was an arbitrary change for no real reason.
But if that's the best you can come up with, that's pretty minor stuff in the overall scheme of things for an OS.
I can think of dozens of changes that Apple makes to the UI every single time they roll out a new version of iOS. But you made the claim that everything they did was deliberate and well studied and I just don't think that's the case. Jon Ive does whatever the hell he wants now that Jobs is gone, and most of it is just because he decides it looks better this week than it did last week.
Very doubtful. Unlike MS and Linux/Android, Apple moves VERY slowly and carefully with UI paradigm shifts.
Surely you jest. What was it, iOS 9 where Apple changed the way that you navigate through all your open apps so that you swipe towards the left to see older apps instead of the right? And iOS10 where they decided peoples Home buttons weren't wearing out fast enough so they made you double tap the home button to unlock your device if you didn't have a fingerprint sensor? And what was the purpose behind those changes? Well in one case, Apple wanted to try and push people to seeing widgets on their lock screen (defaulting to Apple software), and in the other case it seemed to be a very arbitrary and useless change that was confusing to me when I had two different apple devices that behaved in the opposite way on the same screen.
We don't choose libraries and architectures necessarily because they are the best for your business. Sometimes, it is because they are hot in the market and we want professional experience to put on our resumes.
Oh, yeah. And we are keeping our resumes updated.
And I would reject your submissions in code review every time. People like you drive me nuts. Do that in your free time or don't do it at all. If you can't argue a valid reason to use whatever library or architecture you've added, then I won't let you add it to version control. I'm about to lecture someone today for doing just that on a project that I hadn't been paying attention to.
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As a parent, though, who's son rode the bus for 3 years, my first question would be if this will lengthen bus rides? (A 4% reduction in cost for a 20% increase in ride times would be a definite non-starter in my book.)
No, I didn't RTFA.
Why are you so concerned? I rode the bus a long time myself. My bus ride was 20 minutes. Let's round it up to an even 25 minutes. Now we increase that by 20% and it takes an extra 5 minutes. Since we're talking 5 minutes each way, it would cost an extra 10 minutes a day. If it's an hour long bus ride, then you're talking about 12 minutes, and the round trip is closer to a half an hour of extra time. But I doubt that there are routes in Boston that take that long, as it's a relatively urban area. So, what kind of bus ride did your son have that this 20% increase is a non-starter for you? And what would you have had him do with those extra 10-25 minutes anyway?
Why is anti-stick coating the solution that "researchers" suggest?
They just opened up a Teflon factory, duh.
Facebook is not one of them, however Facebook "accidentally" registered their app as a media player and they'd play a silent mp3 in the background to get around iOS trying to freeze the app when it wasn't in use. Apple had a quiet chat to Facebook and this has apparently stopped.
It has not stopped, at least not in the last few weeks. Play audio, open Facebook app, browse through some pages, click on a link that opens the facebook browser and *BAM* your audio is now hijacked by a completely inaudible MP3. The only time I ever look at Facebook is when I am sitting in the waiting room of a doctor's office or some place like that. I listen to music while I sit there and wait and this drives me insane.
Boeing Field is where a lot of mods for military plane are done. Operational flights do not take place from Boeing Field. Most likly what's going on is the plane is undergoing mods and they are testing these mods in the local area.
If this were an operational flight, more likly the plane would be down at McChord Field, where I work. We do have the 22 Special Forces here at McChord, but spy planes, usually the big 135 mods, fly in and out of here all the time. Sometimes they stay a few days, who knows what they are up to.
It's interesting that someone spotted this, but the whole "spying on Seattle" thing is a joke. That's not what's happening.
I'd honestly be very surprised if Boeing did any upgrades on equipment right out of that particular facility, though I could be mistaken. I know that they modify Navy aircraft to the latest hardware revisions down in Florida. I've been to the facility personally. They modify certain Army helicopters in Arizona. They have facilities all over the US that specialize in specific aircraft and, to my knowledge, only do the commercial stuff out of WA.
Do people really "upgrade" processors? I mean, I've been building computers for almost 20 years now and I think I got over the whole idea of upgrading the processor after the first time, circa 1997.
Outside of the gimmicky super-shredder-killer-fps-man-slayer motherboards, it's not like they have been the most expensive part of a computer build for a long time. Introducing a new video card incompatibility like the transition from PCI -> AGP -> PCI Express would be a whole different story.
I did a few years ago. I wanted to build a home server with a XEON processor that was so expensive that I did not want to make the initial purchase. So, I built a system with a really cheap i3 that cost me about $70 and waited until the EOL on the XEON processor. Then I bought it brand new for $120 instead of the ~$600 it originally retailed for. I dropped it in and away I went.
OK, the numbers are "real" in that "that is how much space the app is taking on Apple's server". It is not real in that "this is not the size of the files being moved to your device."
What those numbers include: Multiple assemblies for different architecture platforms. The whole 32/64 bit thing is rearing its ugly head. There are also shared assemblies, not all of which get sent to your device (because they might already be there).
Source: I'm an app developer who has had to explain this a few times as well.
Sure that increases the size some but how exactly do you explain a 478.8MB Facebook install? 2 years of health-kit data doesn't even take up half that much space, including the health-kit app itself. And if you add in the cached data that my Facebook app has saved right now? It's almost a gig. Ridiculous.
The updates may be much smaller, but the end result is still massively bloated. I killed off my Facebook app when I needed space and iOS was telling me that FB was taking up around 400MB. Sure, the innumerable updates are relatively small, but that's of less consequence anyway if not doing updates over a mobile data plan.
Relatively small? Facebook pushes an update to the store every week that is on the order of 250MB per week! Are they really changing that much? Is the update slimming process not working for Facebook? Why does Facebook's app even need that much space? It's a glorified Safari web app, lets be honest. Except that the site is actually easier to use in Safari than their app, or at least used to be until they started looking at the user agent and stripping out functionality to try and get you to install Facebook Messenger.
I was going to write a post nearly identical to yours. After about 3 generations of backup tape technology and not ONCE getting anything useful off a backup tape, I quit tape forever. Now I just try to keep my stuff under 1 TB (er, 2 TB, er, 3 TB) and image to a backup drive of the same capacity.
Yeah I keep my data down to about 2TB of just the most important (or difficult to reproduce) items. Then I use a tool to sync the data to external drives that are removed. I've got 3. One that stays in the fireproof safe and gets updated once every few months, one that stays in the safe and (theoretically) gets updated and rotated every 2 weeks. And one that stays in my desk drawer that gets synced every other week in rotation with the drive in the safe. In practice I usually just end up syncing every month or so when I have new pictures or whatever.
Sounds to me while this may (or may not) be well-intentioned, it'll be abused to censor online discussions, having a chilling effect on peoples freedom of speech. Furthermore, as others in this discussion have already pointed out, sex traffickers will just learn to hide their posts better. The net effect will then be infringement on the rights of people who are doing nothing wrong, and sex trafficking will continue unabated. Really sounds to me like they just need to enforce the laws already on the books with regards to this sort of illegal activity, and nevermind creating new legislation.
I wonder if any of these senators have a website that hosts open forums / comment sections? If so, it can't be too hard to write a script that posts fake sex ads in their forums.
To tell the truth, the words "bias" and "agenda" spring to mind.
That is the most likely explanation, I agree.
the person they're quoting is claiming that the platform itself is what makes Android behind Apple in photography
Gundotra? Isn't he the fired former tinpot dictator of Google's Android division? No chance of sour grapes there, no siree.
Yes there is certainly that chance. There's also the chance he's now working for or on behalf of Apple in some capacity. Who can possibly say? Like I said, I am in no position to evaluate that with accuracy, other than to say that there are areas where Android really does shoot itself in the foot. iOS, however, does the same thing in other areas. So there is a potential chance that he is being subjective here as it stands specifically with the camera functionality.
If your iphone camera is so great let's see it zoom without losing resolution
Not sure about the iPhones, but my partner had a Nokia 1020, which had a 40 megapixel sensor. You do lose resolution when you zoom (although it also had an optical zoom), but the resolution was sufficiently high that you typically didn't care. She's just replaced it with a newer Android phone because Windows Phone 8 is no longer getting security updates and a lot of TLS sites require newer cypher suites than it supports and the new camera is a lot worse.
Now take that Nokia 1020 on safari in Africa and take some close up shots of a lion doing its thing. Oh wait, you can't zoom far enough for that. There is a time and place for everything. When I'm out with friends and want to take an impromptu photo, my phone is what I reach for. When I'm heading to the Caribbean for a week, I take my waterproof camera. And when I'm going to a national park, wildlife spotting, or when I am trying to take a high quality image of basically anything planned in advance, I bring my dSLR.
It's ridiculous to begin with. Comparing a specific phone to a platform? Has there ever been a requirement for Android hardware vendors to only manufacture phones with good cameras?
Well the person they're quoting is claiming that the platform itself is what makes Android behind Apple in photography. I don't know enough about it to say so myself, but I do know with certainty that there are plenty of things that Android does (as a platform) that makes it hard to compete with Apple. Conversely, there are things that Apple does that makes it hard for them to compete with Google in certain areas. I know from personal experience that it is much easier to implement most software features for iOS than for Android. There are exceptions where Android shines, but dev work on Android is harder in general.
Deciding that you trust the current data collector is only a small piece of the large situation.
A lesson I learned when I bought a 2nd Gen Nest and then saw the company get bought by Google about a year later.
But you had already set it up beforehand, and not planned on using it?
My company had helped with the initial Apple Pay roll out and so I had wanted a chance to play with it myself when I got a new phone. But we had access to decrypt the payload, so I wanted to look at what it was doing more than actually use it for payment.
I am waving my cane at clouds with these... why do I want my phone to also be my credit card at the grocery store? I suppose I wouldn't mind have a thinner wallet but it isn't really any harder to get out of my pocket than my phone. Do you guys find this stuff useful?
Once. I took my dog for a walk on a hot summer day. I never bring my wallet on these walks. Well, I ran into a girl with a dog and she asked me if I wanted to walk with her and we went much further than I had planned for when I left the house. Decided to stop at McDonald's to get a water for the dog and some OJ for myself. Then I realized I didn't have my wallet, but I had my phone. In the ~ four years that I've had Apple pay, I've used it exactly once.
Pokemon Go users with maps implement notifications to indicate if a desired creature is available
Then I recommend that both of you install Chrome and use that. Problem solved
What of banks that notify you of suspicious transactions without installing a 100 mb app on your phone?
I might be a bit of a Luddite, but my bank uses two different types of technology for that. The first is a phone call, and the second is an SMS notification. Both work in those rare instances when I don't have data. SMS works when I don't even have enough signal to have a phone conversation. Furthermore, I trust my banking institution a lot more than I trust some random website on the internet. If I did not trust my bank, or their app, I would not have my money deposited with them.
More people would buy them if they removed the headphone jack. Maybe apple should try that.
Apple does not have the courage to do such a thing. Leave it to Samsung to remove the headphone jack, first.
As someone who has to fly two times a week, I can only say that belts with plastic buckles are godsend.
I've gone through the metal detector before and been forced to lift my shirt so they could see if I was wearing a belt. They made me walk back through the detector and put my belt onto the x-ray conveyor, then return through the metal detector. The detector did not go off once. I don't think they'd let you wear even a plastic belt through the body scanner.
I can do it with just 2 tanks of gas...
You have a vehicle that gets 500 MPG? Somehow, your claim is less than believable.
You probably misread what he said. My car (which I drive about once every week or two) gets 24 miles per gallon on the highway. Assuming I don't drive it until it's completely empty, I can go about 350 miles per tank. That means I can do a 1000 mile trip in less than 3 full tanks. Drive something smaller and more practical and you can easily get over 500 miles in a single tank. My parents car has a 14 gallon tank and gets over 40MPG on the highway. That means they can do a 500 mile trip and still have 1.5 gallons to spare.
Whilst your electric might be free, running a 100-200W PC instead of 6W router is a little overkill for most people. The best solution, of course, is to be allowed to put new firmware on your existing router ;-)
I have an LGA 1155 Xeon processor that has a TDP of 35W. I run an SSD in the thing, in a fanless case designed to cool using convection and the device averages about 10W draw. It has way more horsepower than your average router, too. However, you really need a purpose built chip to route traffic efficiently so it's better to use a purpose built router from that standpoint. You'll get better throughput.
You don't see 50 gallon garbage cans being emptied every week. You see a small truck collecting the trash of an entire neighborhood.
My experience living in a 2nd world country for about a year was that the neighborhoods usually just dump their trash in a common pile and burn it once a week or so. It's nasty and terrible for the environment. You could cut through a field between neighborhoods and find enough trash that it looked like you were on top of a landfill that wasn't being properly maintained after it was covered up and shutdown. Just trash everywhere.
Yes, yes, I know. Everything Apple does is one big Conspiracy.
The double tap on the home button to turn on the device and then go to the PIN entry adds exactly what functionality? None! At least let me swipe to get to the lock screen instead of wearing out a mechanical button on the device. And since the home button is the #1 thing to fail on an iPhone (besides cracked glass), how can you not claim it to be malicious on Apple's part? One of the first mods ever added by the jailbreak community was a soft home button so that you could use a device without replacing the button. That's how common of a problem it is and Apple did something that makes the problem worse.
You're kidding, right? The swipe left vs. right went completely unnoticed by me. I don't use that feature often enough to remember which way to swpie anyway!
I sometimes write software for Apple devices and have hardware that cannot be upgraded to the latest iOS. So some of my devices scroll through apps one way, and some of them scroll through the other. It's incredibly irritating when you switch devices. Sure, if you've only got one device you get used to it pretty quickly but again it was an arbitrary change for no real reason.
But if that's the best you can come up with, that's pretty minor stuff in the overall scheme of things for an OS.
I can think of dozens of changes that Apple makes to the UI every single time they roll out a new version of iOS. But you made the claim that everything they did was deliberate and well studied and I just don't think that's the case. Jon Ive does whatever the hell he wants now that Jobs is gone, and most of it is just because he decides it looks better this week than it did last week.
Very doubtful. Unlike MS and Linux/Android, Apple moves VERY slowly and carefully with UI paradigm shifts.
Surely you jest. What was it, iOS 9 where Apple changed the way that you navigate through all your open apps so that you swipe towards the left to see older apps instead of the right? And iOS10 where they decided peoples Home buttons weren't wearing out fast enough so they made you double tap the home button to unlock your device if you didn't have a fingerprint sensor? And what was the purpose behind those changes? Well in one case, Apple wanted to try and push people to seeing widgets on their lock screen (defaulting to Apple software), and in the other case it seemed to be a very arbitrary and useless change that was confusing to me when I had two different apple devices that behaved in the opposite way on the same screen.
We don't choose libraries and architectures necessarily because they are the best for your business. Sometimes, it is because they are hot in the market and we want professional experience to put on our resumes.
Oh, yeah. And we are keeping our resumes updated.
And I would reject your submissions in code review every time. People like you drive me nuts. Do that in your free time or don't do it at all. If you can't argue a valid reason to use whatever library or architecture you've added, then I won't let you add it to version control. I'm about to lecture someone today for doing just that on a project that I hadn't been paying attention to.