Anti-left isn't pro-right. Just because I don't like Stalin doesn't mean I'm a fan of Hitler, dammit.
Get it into your thick skull that being against one kind of cancer doesn't automatically mean that someone adores a different kind. They're BOTH abhorrent. I know that it's unfashionable to look for a middle ground and that you treat those that try like the blue-helmet soldiers that try to stand between Israel and Palestine, getting shot at by both sides.
And frankly, I wonder why I stand here. Please go ahead and kill each other. Preferably completely. Maybe some sane people will emerge from the fallout and rebuild after those cancerous "You're not with us so you're one of them" assholes are gone!
Tim is in love with the Bauhaus philosophy of art that form and function should be one, and fluff and ornamentation should be reduced to its bare minimum or, better even, eliminated altogether, so they would not distract from the important bits of the design. Sadly it seems that he didn't quite understand that "being one" doesn't mean that you have to force them together. Like you said, function should take the lead.
Current smartphones are the poster child of first world problems. Because the world comes to an end when you have to unlock your phone with a passphrase instead of smacking your face into it.
Personally, the only thing that changed from the Nokia 7110 that I had to the smartphone that I have now is that I was able to get rid of the car navigation system.
Actually, yes. Jobs was a rare combination of someone who knows a bit of IT and someone who knows what people who have no clue of IT need. I saw it first hand numerous times how people who just couldn't "get" computers had few problems dealing with Apple products and actually started to like trying things where they were earlier afraid to.
I'm no fan of Apple. Far from it. I can't stomach their, in my opinion, completely unusable interface, but it seems that computer illiterates can deal with them better than with interfaces written by IT people for IT people.
Apple has hit the problem that Windows hit no later than XP: the "good enough" problem. About 10 years ago, their products were "good enough". Their great selling point was the "just works" bit. No Windows-y fiddling with drivers, no futzing around with runtime components that should cooperate but oddly don't in this configuration (and let's not even start about "what kernel module to include" Linux). Plug in and go. Apple had it first (or rather, had it working all the time first).
Problem is: What now? It's as good as it gets and people are satisfied, so where to go from here if you still want to sell something down the line?
I give you the first but contest the latter. I'd actually say that most people who reach for an Apple product couldn't care less about whether it can be upgraded. Most everyday computer users (and let's face it, the IT guru ain't the target audience for Apple) buy a computer. Not a bunch of components to mix and match and replace, when they replace components, they replace computers.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with that approach (well, provided you don't mind the trash), most people don't care about upgrading single components. To them, a computer is as much a monolithic black box as a stove, microwave or TV.
A computer/phone/gadget that is more than a fashion statement but a fashion statement, well designed, easy to use, stable, low maintenance, intuitive and responsive.
In other words, what Apple products used to be right before Jobs croaked.
Well, I actually did learn that I have someone who looks stunningly like me without even being related to me in any way. Unlike me, though, he can actually play the guitar and sing, otherwise you could think he's my twin.
So it needn't even be someone living with you or related to you. But of course you're right, the chances are vastly higher in your own family.
The comparative isn't necessarily an augmentation to the positive. When someone answers "better" to the question how he's feeling, it usually means he's far from feeling well.
Dear Spain, Google services have to be suspended due to the Catalan vote for independence. Please check in again on (voteday+1), the day after it's held.
It kinda makes sense that a lot of work laws around here include the phrase "there is no effective way to waive this right". Meaning your employer can write whatever bullshit he wants to make up in a contract but it's void. This includes crap like this, non-compete clauses broad enough to make you unemployable, work hours and many other things that we take for granted.
Guess the idiots thinking that "we should have more freedoms in our work contracts" should take a lesson from across the pond.
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Anti-left isn't pro-right. Just because I don't like Stalin doesn't mean I'm a fan of Hitler, dammit.
Get it into your thick skull that being against one kind of cancer doesn't automatically mean that someone adores a different kind. They're BOTH abhorrent. I know that it's unfashionable to look for a middle ground and that you treat those that try like the blue-helmet soldiers that try to stand between Israel and Palestine, getting shot at by both sides.
And frankly, I wonder why I stand here. Please go ahead and kill each other. Preferably completely. Maybe some sane people will emerge from the fallout and rebuild after those cancerous "You're not with us so you're one of them" assholes are gone!
Tim is in love with the Bauhaus philosophy of art that form and function should be one, and fluff and ornamentation should be reduced to its bare minimum or, better even, eliminated altogether, so they would not distract from the important bits of the design. Sadly it seems that he didn't quite understand that "being one" doesn't mean that you have to force them together. Like you said, function should take the lead.
Tim let form lead.
Current smartphones are the poster child of first world problems. Because the world comes to an end when you have to unlock your phone with a passphrase instead of smacking your face into it.
Personally, the only thing that changed from the Nokia 7110 that I had to the smartphone that I have now is that I was able to get rid of the car navigation system.
Damn. I think I mixed up B and A. Any way to turn that Apple II back?
Actually, yes. Jobs was a rare combination of someone who knows a bit of IT and someone who knows what people who have no clue of IT need. I saw it first hand numerous times how people who just couldn't "get" computers had few problems dealing with Apple products and actually started to like trying things where they were earlier afraid to.
I'm no fan of Apple. Far from it. I can't stomach their, in my opinion, completely unusable interface, but it seems that computer illiterates can deal with them better than with interfaces written by IT people for IT people.
It's more the trainer, if you really want that analogy.
Tim's probably already as flaming as it gets, so why bother?
Apple has hit the problem that Windows hit no later than XP: the "good enough" problem. About 10 years ago, their products were "good enough". Their great selling point was the "just works" bit. No Windows-y fiddling with drivers, no futzing around with runtime components that should cooperate but oddly don't in this configuration (and let's not even start about "what kernel module to include" Linux). Plug in and go. Apple had it first (or rather, had it working all the time first).
Problem is: What now? It's as good as it gets and people are satisfied, so where to go from here if you still want to sell something down the line?
I give you the first but contest the latter. I'd actually say that most people who reach for an Apple product couldn't care less about whether it can be upgraded. Most everyday computer users (and let's face it, the IT guru ain't the target audience for Apple) buy a computer. Not a bunch of components to mix and match and replace, when they replace components, they replace computers.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with that approach (well, provided you don't mind the trash), most people don't care about upgrading single components. To them, a computer is as much a monolithic black box as a stove, microwave or TV.
A computer/phone/gadget that is more than a fashion statement but a fashion statement, well designed, easy to use, stable, low maintenance, intuitive and responsive.
In other words, what Apple products used to be right before Jobs croaked.
Yes, but that won't get you a better iPhone or make Mac usable again, so why bother?
Then what's left on Reddit?
Well, I actually did learn that I have someone who looks stunningly like me without even being related to me in any way. Unlike me, though, he can actually play the guitar and sing, otherwise you could think he's my twin.
So it needn't even be someone living with you or related to you. But of course you're right, the chances are vastly higher in your own family.
The comparative isn't necessarily an augmentation to the positive. When someone answers "better" to the question how he's feeling, it usually means he's far from feeling well.
Well, if you think of the children all the time, it's likely you're a pedo.
A big splash screen for Spain reading
Dear Spain,
Google services have to be suspended due to the Catalan vote for independence. Please check in again on (voteday+1), the day after it's held.
Yours,
Google
You mean the monsters that thwart censorship and destroy government's delusion that they can dictate what people may read, write and ponder?
Ok.
Don't use Telegram. Use Whatsapp. Be a patriot, use American violation of your privacy!
When you can get a bullet for a few cents and someone to use it for a couple thousands...
So... it's illegal, but it's no longer illegal if you pay someone for it?
Can't we do that with drugs, too? I mean, I already pay my dealer so that smack is legal, right?
That's old knowledge from our native ancients, and it can be yours for the low, low price of 18 bucks a month!
Most people who get to see the resulting movies aren't, though.
Won't someone PLEASE think of the NSA agents that have to see and hear all of that?
The retire I mean also means they won't ever work another day in their ... well, they won't work another day.
Wow. Just wow.
It kinda makes sense that a lot of work laws around here include the phrase "there is no effective way to waive this right". Meaning your employer can write whatever bullshit he wants to make up in a contract but it's void. This includes crap like this, non-compete clauses broad enough to make you unemployable, work hours and many other things that we take for granted.
Guess the idiots thinking that "we should have more freedoms in our work contracts" should take a lesson from across the pond.