It could also help YouTube make up for previous failures in curbing the spread of toxic content
I don't see how, because any way you slice it these kinds of videos would be rated as high on the list of "quality viewing" - people would be watching the whole thing, and commenting on them also. I mean, they do today...
The stuff that would fare worse under this new regime would be the video equivalent of listicles, or those videos with really terrible voice synthesizers droning on about whatever... where you just get annoyed and stop watching after a minute or skip around quickly and leave.
I do think it would down-rate some stupid content, but not the kind of content the summary thinks it would effect.
I guess I'll have to take back what I said; no way are you this ignorant by choice, you are indeed obviously paid by Google to undermine competitors.
First off, you'll only be "promoted" them if you go looking for them
False, I found them because I opened the App Store, and in the Apple created (by Apple editors) "Today" page it showed a section for Tokyo apps, which contained the third party nav/transit apps mentioned - I didn't have to look, Apple was promoting them to me!
(On idiotic claim Apple gets cut from Amazon app) : Unless they have some special deal with Apple, then yes, they do.
Yep, outright liar as I suspected. You seem to get close to the truth at times but just miss it, and other times try to bury it under 10 feet of compost... with the first post I could as I said maybe see that you just didn't understand some things, but now it's plain you indeed to categorically deceive in every way.
The rest of what you said is very obviously twisting the truth at this point, I don't have any further time to waste on correcting an endless cascade of lies. Not one thing you said is undistorted, I'll let people figure out the rest from here as my initial corrections stand undisputed by facts.
I was going to write an answer assuming you were honestly asking,
I am honestly asking, if only I could get an honest response... judging by how much I have to correct here I'm not sure this is one. Note I will not sink to your Cleveland claim you are paid by Google to post negative and misleading Apple content.
The bottom line is that Apple absolutely abuses their control of the App Store to punish third parties trying to compete with them. Maps is a simple example
Not very simple, since Apple heavily promotes other third party apps - including mapping apps. In the Tokyo City apps guide in the App Store for example, they promote a number of non-Apple transit and mapping apps even though you could use the built in Maps.app to do much the same thing.
anywhere iOS detects an address, that address will always open in Apple Maps
From Apple apps yes, however third parties can (and do) give you a choice which mapping app to open up directions for - and you can also easily copy an address from an app like Contacts which pastes cleanly into Google Maps for searching. Again, not so clear...
I have an app called CardHop to manage contacts, it lets you specify if address should open in Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze, City Mapper, etc. It has as full access to contact data as the built in Apple App. So if not opening an address in Google Maps is an issue to you, move away from Apple apps presenting address links.
For example, if you plug your phone into a car equipped with CarPlay and turn the car's audio on, this will always launch Apple Music,
Maybe that happens with CarPlay (I cannot verify) but my experience with cars is that plugging the phone in via USB with a third party app playing music continues to play that music.
Again, why is it a surprise if you use Apple applications they would favor using things like Apple Music? If that is an issue move to other apps, no penalty to do so.
There are various ways that Apple hooks their apps into iOS that third parties simply cannot do. As an example, they recently released a "Shortcuts" app that allows you to automate various tasks in iOS. However, this only works on Apple apps and a very limited selection of third party "partners."
From iOS 12 ANY app has been able to add shortcut support, It relies on Siri Shortcut support which any app can add.
From the link:
"Your shortcuts will be available in the new Shortcuts app"
SiriKit is also heavily limited. You can't use SiriKit to replace Apple's default services.
It is limited, though not "heavily", they are just slowly rolling out what they call "intents" as to the kinds of things it can support. Note in that link it says a SiriKit intent for CarPlay can change the car's audio source, for example...
even if you don't use Apple as the payment processor, you're required to send them 30% of all revenue.
What an utter load of crap, you are claiming Amazon sends 30% of purchases made in my Amazon app to Apple? If you don't purchase it through an Apple app, you owe Apple nothing. Your claim is madness.
Apple, of course, doesn't have to pay the Apple Tax, because they would only be paying themselves.
What iOS apps does Apple charge for again? I'm waiting... oh that's right, the answer is zero. So they have only expense, but no revenue, from iOS apps (Apple does have some expensive pro apps on the Mac).
It would be great to see the EU slap Apple down on this
You don't seem to have read the summary correctly about who is investigating, it would appear to be just the Dutch government.
Under iOS, mmap() and mprotect() disallow regular applications to set both +w and +x flags on the same segment.
Interesting point, that I had forgotten about... it seems like a pretty decent security precaution though, and of limited use to most categories of apps...
Mobile Safari, however, has the "dynamic-codesigning" entitlement which enables MAP_JIT to do that. This has allowed Safari to perform just-in-time - compilation to run Javascript faster than third-party web browsers.
Only if the third party web browsers are not using embedded Safari views, which they can.
It is possible that they've seen patterns that you're missing ?
It sure is which is why the very first thing I said is, it would be great to know what they are thinking are advantages - because that info was not in the article at the link.
Even before they looked at anything though, there had to be some basis to start looking into this claim, right? So what was THAT basis? Also not reported on by article.
I've not seen anything Apple promoting on device for a while and as an iOS developer, I pay more attention to the App Store than most people so I also am in a good position to see patterns as well, which I've seen no sign of. The patterns I HAVE seen indicate Apple is making a larger and larger push to drive people to buy third party apps, which makes sense because both Apple and app developers win in that case as well. The whole "Today" tab with Apple crafted stories promoting apps that fall together under some theme is case in point, Apple is spending a lot of effort trying to help third party apps. So is the aspect that Apple has been making more Apple apps deletable, and does not do things like ship Pages/Numbers work apps on devices, you have to search for and download them...
they do have the "Made By Apple" section on the right side within the App Store.
Opening the App Store right now:
iPhone/iPad: No "Made by Apple" section or tab, not on Today tab, not on Apps tab.
App categories: No "Made by Apple" section.
App Store on Mac: No "Made by Apple" section.
Maybe once they did, but not for some time.
So again, where the the Apple advantage in anything presented by the App Store app? I don't see anything, I see Apple promoting a TON of third party apps. Heck I just went into a travel app for a city I'm visiting, and they promoted a number of alternative transit and mapping apps even though you can just use transit in maps.app.
Showing the Apple apps before the 3rd party ones could be a simple advantage.
It would be - if they were doing that.
They do not (in App Store search results) and a number of Apple apps are not shipped on device so you have to get them from the App Store just like any other app. In fact when you open the App Store you initially get a "Featured" page these days chock full of non-Apple apps to look at first, before you even search.
There's an inherent advantage with some apps shipping with the phone, but beyond that I'm not sure I see what the advantages would be... Apple has been even moving to make more system apps deletable!
Apple apps use the same system frameworks to operate as consumer apps, and are limited by the same access controls to things like photos or location that any other app is. Searching the App Store I've not seen Apple apps like Pages given preference or unwanted appearance in search results.
It would be really interesting to know what advantages they are looking for... Apple doesn't have an inherent benefit from you using Apple apps or not, because whatever app you end up using you are paying Apple for the hardware to run it. That is inertly different than Google with Android apps, where the real money is made by you using Google products and contributing data feeds to Google.
If you follow the Wikileaks Twitter account, they have ben reporting for about a week that he would be evicted from the embassy, and the British police were waiting to arrest him... a number of videos they posted showed undercover police outside the embassy 24x7 for the last few days.
Hard to form a flash mob though when you don't have an exact time something will happen, just knowing it will happen soon is not enough as you can't keep a large crowd of people on standby. It would have been interesting to see if they could have got a small group together to march outside the embassy 24x7 for a week or so... but I guess no-one tried that.
Honestly I think JA may be better off outside what was essentially an Ecuadorian prison anyway. I wonder if he'll at least be allowed to communicate from a UK jail...
The article seems to present this as some new info, I assumed this was happening all the time, otherwise how else can Alexa improve?
it's incidentally also why I don't have anything like Alexa or other voice assistants in my house, but if you are sending audio to Amazon hey guess what, something or someone is going to listen to that audio. DURRRR.
Earmuffs and hats aren't placed in the ear canals like ear buds (like the driver was using).
Oh so over the air headphones are OK, even though they block sound far more than in-ear earbuds which block very little sound, being actually better than a hat in terms of what you can hear (try it).
Even with side-impact air bags, I'm sure there could be a lot of damaged caused by them
Why are you sure abut that? In fact they would protect your ear drums far more than any damage they could cause.. if they are being pushed inwards in an accident, guess what so is your skull and you have way worse problems.
I can totally understand an issue with earbuds being in if audio is playing at all, that could indeed be a distraction. I am just saying that claiming they are a distraction when off is utterly stupid, like insanely stupid to the point where anyone claiming it is so should be locked away where they cannot harm others.
What is the difference between having headphones in which nothing is playing, and earmuffs, or a hat that covers your ears?
In most modern cars you aren't hearing the outside really well unless the windows are opened, absurd that headphones with nothing playing are considered a problem.
I appreciate the new form is technically more accurate but the expansion is pretty large compared to the original form... I wonder if the extra length doesn't wash out the understandability gains you get out of the original form.
More likely, they do understand but just don't care. As long as the masses are willing to pay large amounts for bundled entertainment
That's what I don't get - are they really finding customers at this prices?
If they are finding customers, then they are not wrong about people wanting large bundles and they can carry on.
If they are no finding customers, they would care very quickly since they cannot run a business.
So who are the people subscribing to these large non-cable bundles? Are there any? This is where I seriously wish someone would do some investigative journalism to find and interview people are are using these large bundles. Maybe they just don't know any better???
From watching a documentary last night, it seemed like many homeless in Seattle shoplift with impunity (and immunity) already. So it seems like they were already fine as they would just walk out of the store with items like every other customer.
I had been wondering, why it was that we seemed to be so lucky as to be looking exactly above the accretion disc... watching the video helped to understand why the angle didn't matter so much.
The awesome thing abut video streaming is that at last I don't have to pay for a collection of channels I mostly hate.
So why on earth are companies trying to go back to a world where they bundle a bunch of crappy channels together with a handful that are good? Who is going to go for that, when you also have the option to just get good single channels, or indeed to just pay for the one show you actually like from a channel, one time?
It's not like I was a YouTube TV subscriber to begin with but I am mystified who considers subscribing to this with so many other options to be had.
If you watch the Werner Herzog documentary/movie "Encounters at the End of the World" they have an interview with the guy that runs the telescope, and also some footage - pretty cool.
There's also a whole book around it though pretty dense, called The Telescope in the Ice if you want to know more.
I'm pretty sure that most people on Slashdot know POS really stands for "Point of Sale". But I found it amusing to read through the whole summary with "Windows" and "POS" lumped together multiple time leading the read to their own inner dialogue as to meaning...
I agree that's probably all they are really doing... but then after that to claim that the person is safe to wipe the old system? I sure would not claim that without having a real careful look at the completeness of the migration, I think I've had it miss stuff before that I wasn't even keeping in some strange place.
I can't even bring myself to wipe a system I used 20 years ago out of fear I forgot to copy something forward. The scary thing is sometimes I look through really old drives and still find some files I would have sworn I moved but cannot find anywhere else.
I found out later that this person had the (very bad) habit of "hiding" ALL their "Document" files in C:\Windows\Temp (!!!!!!!)
That is exactly what I mean, very possible a user has stuff some unexpected things in a system directory somewhere that you (or a migration tool) did not touch. I've seen similar things a lot of times from untechnical people so I do not think it's even that rare.
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would have been the first on the moon built by a private organization
Oh it's on the moon. :-(
Jokes aside I was really sad to see this fail, I tried watching the livestream a bit but was too late and didn't realize it had crashed.
I hope they do try again, and NASA gives them another reflector array to try and plant there...
It could also help YouTube make up for previous failures in curbing the spread of toxic content
I don't see how, because any way you slice it these kinds of videos would be rated as high on the list of "quality viewing" - people would be watching the whole thing, and commenting on them also. I mean, they do today...
The stuff that would fare worse under this new regime would be the video equivalent of listicles, or those videos with really terrible voice synthesizers droning on about whatever... where you just get annoyed and stop watching after a minute or skip around quickly and leave.
I do think it would down-rate some stupid content, but not the kind of content the summary thinks it would effect.
I guess I'll have to take back what I said; no way are you this ignorant by choice, you are indeed obviously paid by Google to undermine competitors.
First off, you'll only be "promoted" them if you go looking for them
False, I found them because I opened the App Store, and in the Apple created (by Apple editors) "Today" page it showed a section for Tokyo apps, which contained the third party nav/transit apps mentioned - I didn't have to look, Apple was promoting them to me!
(On idiotic claim Apple gets cut from Amazon app) : Unless they have some special deal with Apple, then yes, they do.
Yep, outright liar as I suspected. You seem to get close to the truth at times but just miss it, and other times try to bury it under 10 feet of compost... with the first post I could as I said maybe see that you just didn't understand some things, but now it's plain you indeed to categorically deceive in every way.
The rest of what you said is very obviously twisting the truth at this point, I don't have any further time to waste on correcting an endless cascade of lies. Not one thing you said is undistorted, I'll let people figure out the rest from here as my initial corrections stand undisputed by facts.
P.S. Spotify exists.
I was going to write an answer assuming you were honestly asking,
I am honestly asking, if only I could get an honest response... judging by how much I have to correct here I'm not sure this is one. Note I will not sink to your Cleveland claim you are paid by Google to post negative and misleading Apple content.
The bottom line is that Apple absolutely abuses their control of the App Store to punish third parties trying to compete with them. Maps is a simple example
Not very simple, since Apple heavily promotes other third party apps - including mapping apps. In the Tokyo City apps guide in the App Store for example, they promote a number of non-Apple transit and mapping apps even though you could use the built in Maps.app to do much the same thing.
anywhere iOS detects an address, that address will always open in Apple Maps
From Apple apps yes, however third parties can (and do) give you a choice which mapping app to open up directions for - and you can also easily copy an address from an app like Contacts which pastes cleanly into Google Maps for searching. Again, not so clear...
I have an app called CardHop to manage contacts, it lets you specify if address should open in Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze, City Mapper, etc. It has as full access to contact data as the built in Apple App. So if not opening an address in Google Maps is an issue to you, move away from Apple apps presenting address links.
For example, if you plug your phone into a car equipped with CarPlay and turn the car's audio on, this will always launch Apple Music,
Maybe that happens with CarPlay (I cannot verify) but my experience with cars is that plugging the phone in via USB with a third party app playing music continues to play that music.
Again, why is it a surprise if you use Apple applications they would favor using things like Apple Music? If that is an issue move to other apps, no penalty to do so.
There are various ways that Apple hooks their apps into iOS that third parties simply cannot do. As an example, they recently released a "Shortcuts" app that allows you to automate various tasks in iOS. However, this only works on Apple apps and a very limited selection of third party "partners."
From iOS 12 ANY app has been able to add shortcut support, It relies on Siri Shortcut support which any app can add.
From the link:
"Your shortcuts will be available in the new Shortcuts app"
SiriKit is also heavily limited. You can't use SiriKit to replace Apple's default services.
It is limited, though not "heavily", they are just slowly rolling out what they call "intents" as to the kinds of things it can support. Note in that link it says a SiriKit intent for CarPlay can change the car's audio source, for example...
even if you don't use Apple as the payment processor, you're required to send them 30% of all revenue.
What an utter load of crap, you are claiming Amazon sends 30% of purchases made in my Amazon app to Apple? If you don't purchase it through an Apple app, you owe Apple nothing. Your claim is madness.
Apple, of course, doesn't have to pay the Apple Tax, because they would only be paying themselves.
What iOS apps does Apple charge for again? I'm waiting... oh that's right, the answer is zero. So they have only expense, but no revenue, from iOS apps (Apple does have some expensive pro apps on the Mac).
It would be great to see the EU slap Apple down on this
You don't seem to have read the summary correctly about who is investigating, it would appear to be just the Dutch government.
Under iOS, mmap() and mprotect() disallow regular applications to set both +w and +x flags on the same segment.
Interesting point, that I had forgotten about... it seems like a pretty decent security precaution though, and of limited use to most categories of apps...
Mobile Safari, however, has the "dynamic-codesigning" entitlement which enables MAP_JIT to do that. This has allowed Safari to perform just-in-time - compilation to run Javascript faster than third-party web browsers.
Only if the third party web browsers are not using embedded Safari views, which they can.
It is possible that they've seen patterns that you're missing ?
It sure is which is why the very first thing I said is, it would be great to know what they are thinking are advantages - because that info was not in the article at the link.
Even before they looked at anything though, there had to be some basis to start looking into this claim, right? So what was THAT basis? Also not reported on by article.
I've not seen anything Apple promoting on device for a while and as an iOS developer, I pay more attention to the App Store than most people so I also am in a good position to see patterns as well, which I've seen no sign of. The patterns I HAVE seen indicate Apple is making a larger and larger push to drive people to buy third party apps, which makes sense because both Apple and app developers win in that case as well. The whole "Today" tab with Apple crafted stories promoting apps that fall together under some theme is case in point, Apple is spending a lot of effort trying to help third party apps. So is the aspect that Apple has been making more Apple apps deletable, and does not do things like ship Pages/Numbers work apps on devices, you have to search for and download them...
they do have the "Made By Apple" section on the right side within the App Store.
Opening the App Store right now:
iPhone/iPad: No "Made by Apple" section or tab, not on Today tab, not on Apps tab.
App categories: No "Made by Apple" section.
App Store on Mac: No "Made by Apple" section.
Maybe once they did, but not for some time.
So again, where the the Apple advantage in anything presented by the App Store app? I don't see anything, I see Apple promoting a TON of third party apps. Heck I just went into a travel app for a city I'm visiting, and they promoted a number of alternative transit and mapping apps even though you can just use transit in maps.app.
Showing the Apple apps before the 3rd party ones could be a simple advantage.
It would be - if they were doing that.
They do not (in App Store search results) and a number of Apple apps are not shipped on device so you have to get them from the App Store just like any other app. In fact when you open the App Store you initially get a "Featured" page these days chock full of non-Apple apps to look at first, before you even search.
So where is the Apple advantage?
There's an inherent advantage with some apps shipping with the phone, but beyond that I'm not sure I see what the advantages would be... Apple has been even moving to make more system apps deletable!
Apple apps use the same system frameworks to operate as consumer apps, and are limited by the same access controls to things like photos or location that any other app is. Searching the App Store I've not seen Apple apps like Pages given preference or unwanted appearance in search results.
It would be really interesting to know what advantages they are looking for... Apple doesn't have an inherent benefit from you using Apple apps or not, because whatever app you end up using you are paying Apple for the hardware to run it. That is inertly different than Google with Android apps, where the real money is made by you using Google products and contributing data feeds to Google.
If you follow the Wikileaks Twitter account, they have ben reporting for about a week that he would be evicted from the embassy, and the British police were waiting to arrest him... a number of videos they posted showed undercover police outside the embassy 24x7 for the last few days.
Hard to form a flash mob though when you don't have an exact time something will happen, just knowing it will happen soon is not enough as you can't keep a large crowd of people on standby. It would have been interesting to see if they could have got a small group together to march outside the embassy 24x7 for a week or so... but I guess no-one tried that.
Honestly I think JA may be better off outside what was essentially an Ecuadorian prison anyway. I wonder if he'll at least be allowed to communicate from a UK jail...
I am so sorry people are not understanding the 100x gravity of your message.
The article seems to present this as some new info, I assumed this was happening all the time, otherwise how else can Alexa improve?
it's incidentally also why I don't have anything like Alexa or other voice assistants in my house, but if you are sending audio to Amazon hey guess what, something or someone is going to listen to that audio. DURRRR.
Earmuffs and hats aren't placed in the ear canals like ear buds (like the driver was using).
Oh so over the air headphones are OK, even though they block sound far more than in-ear earbuds which block very little sound, being actually better than a hat in terms of what you can hear (try it).
Even with side-impact air bags, I'm sure there could be a lot of damaged caused by them
Why are you sure abut that? In fact they would protect your ear drums far more than any damage they could cause.. if they are being pushed inwards in an accident, guess what so is your skull and you have way worse problems.
I can totally understand an issue with earbuds being in if audio is playing at all, that could indeed be a distraction. I am just saying that claiming they are a distraction when off is utterly stupid, like insanely stupid to the point where anyone claiming it is so should be locked away where they cannot harm others.
What is the difference between having headphones in which nothing is playing, and earmuffs, or a hat that covers your ears?
In most modern cars you aren't hearing the outside really well unless the windows are opened, absurd that headphones with nothing playing are considered a problem.
I appreciate the new form is technically more accurate but the expansion is pretty large compared to the original form... I wonder if the extra length doesn't wash out the understandability gains you get out of the original form.
T-Mobile is a laughingstock
Not if you travel internationally, T-Mobile has been fantastic in that regard.
I find the service in the U.S. to be mostly decent, if still not as good as Verizon in some cities. The LTE performance is usually really good.
More likely, they do understand but just don't care. As long as the masses are willing to pay large amounts for bundled entertainment
That's what I don't get - are they really finding customers at this prices?
If they are finding customers, then they are not wrong about people wanting large bundles and they can carry on.
If they are no finding customers, they would care very quickly since they cannot run a business.
So who are the people subscribing to these large non-cable bundles? Are there any? This is where I seriously wish someone would do some investigative journalism to find and interview people are are using these large bundles. Maybe they just don't know any better???
From watching a documentary last night, it seemed like many homeless in Seattle shoplift with impunity (and immunity) already. So it seems like they were already fine as they would just walk out of the store with items like every other customer.
I had been wondering, why it was that we seemed to be so lucky as to be looking exactly above the accretion disc... watching the video helped to understand why the angle didn't matter so much.
The awesome thing abut video streaming is that at last I don't have to pay for a collection of channels I mostly hate.
So why on earth are companies trying to go back to a world where they bundle a bunch of crappy channels together with a handful that are good? Who is going to go for that, when you also have the option to just get good single channels, or indeed to just pay for the one show you actually like from a channel, one time?
It's not like I was a YouTube TV subscriber to begin with but I am mystified who considers subscribing to this with so many other options to be had.
If you watch the Werner Herzog documentary/movie "Encounters at the End of the World" they have an interview with the guy that runs the telescope, and also some footage - pretty cool.
There's also a whole book around it though pretty dense, called The Telescope in the Ice if you want to know more.
Turns out the Matrixies got it backwards; we are not batteries, we *need* batteries to stay human!
I've got a bag of old 9-volts in the fridge, and a feeling I may have forgot something important.
Let's go!
I'm pretty sure that most people on Slashdot know POS really stands for "Point of Sale". But I found it amusing to read through the whole summary with "Windows" and "POS" lumped together multiple time leading the read to their own inner dialogue as to meaning...
run Migration Assistant for you
I agree that's probably all they are really doing... but then after that to claim that the person is safe to wipe the old system? I sure would not claim that without having a real careful look at the completeness of the migration, I think I've had it miss stuff before that I wasn't even keeping in some strange place.
I can't even bring myself to wipe a system I used 20 years ago out of fear I forgot to copy something forward. The scary thing is sometimes I look through really old drives and still find some files I would have sworn I moved but cannot find anywhere else.
I found out later that this person had the (very bad) habit of "hiding" ALL their "Document" files in C:\Windows\Temp (!!!!!!!)
That is exactly what I mean, very possible a user has stuff some unexpected things in a system directory somewhere that you (or a migration tool) did not touch. I've seen similar things a lot of times from untechnical people so I do not think it's even that rare.