The Apple II computer even had a 3.5mm audio out jack and Audio In jack.
They should preserve the functionality in the iPhone so I can emulate an Apple II on it and connect it to a cassette player to load basic programs from tape.
The IBM PC had a cassette port. Any "PC" that doesn't isn't actually a Personal Computer.
That's stupid. You didn't get hit because they didn't cross immediately in front of your vehicle. You could have been doing 80, and been well past them when they crossed. It was luck, or just happy non-coincidence, if you will.
Yeah, those well above a million deer-vehicle collision per year in the US don't actually happen. Or on crossings where the deer had green light and a drunk driver ran his red.
What I like is that Apple is putting all their resources into Mobile,
Yawn. They put far more into the Mac than they did 10 years ago - and the marketshare turned up as a result. So do they in all other segments of their business, old and new - well apart from the iPod. Not to mention those projects that aren't even on the market yet.
No I get it - my point is how can you call this an "autopilot" if it doesn't even read road signs or figure out speed limits from GPS location or something. It's more of a "tries keep the car in your lane" device. I know it's just a detail, but lawyers have won lawsuits for less.
And consumers either wouldn't buy an autonomous car you couldn't tell to always drive x mph above speed limit, or they would hack it.
As usual, the truth is somewhere in between. The increased sales from two years ago are due to moving into new markets like China. The fall is due to declining sales in their original western markets.
Since the Chinese market is growing fast they would be doing badly if they weren't increasing their sales rapidly too. But actually, when you look at the numbers, they are getting some stiff competition from Chinese manufacturers and from the usual Samsung/HTC/Sony/etc. block. Investors tend to be good at maths so they consider this to be bad news. Not terrible or a sign of impending disaster or anything like that, but not a good sign either.
Yeah? You mean the stiff competition didn't actually wipe away the previous years competition instead? Where the fuck is Xiaomi now, the company that was sure to blow away Apple? And if you and the investors were good at math, you wouldn't expect Apple to sell more phones just a year after they released their first phablet (which coincidently is also the product that drove up their sales far beyond what you expect). Because Apple buyers don't buy a new phone every year, no matter what "experts" claim.
The problem is that sales are going down for the second or third quarter in a row. Tablet and phone sales across the industry are down. Apple's biggest seller by far is the iPhone and its sales are slumping.
Again, you are ignoring just how well they did last year. Compared to the same Quarter 2 years ago, Apple sold 14.8% more iPhones. IOW, if Apple had sold 9.8 million iPhones less in FQ3 of 2015, we'd be looking at a comfortable climb of 7.1% for this and the previous year's quarter.
Except it doesn't work in urban areas. I live and work on downtown Seattle. I have to plug my phone I since Bluetooth never works.
So? The rumour - and let's not ignore this is still a rumour that started 2 years ago - is that Apple would ship Lightning headphones with the jack-less iPhones. IOW wired.
These always struck me as a fad waiting to die, but I'm not trying to be the usual Slashdot curmudgeon, so I'll ask: what are the killer features of a smart watch?
According to Apple's WWDC keynote, if you're in a wheelchair, a watch is far easier to access than a smart phone. That's apparently their biggest market: people in wheelchairs.
Well, there are more people in wheelchairs than people on Slashdot. And there are more people not in a wheelchair who own an Apple Watch than Apple Watch owners in a wheelchair. IOW, who cares what you think your point is.
It's just further proof of the old saying, "A fool and his money are soon parted".
some mumbling about how its more socially acceptable to glance at texts on your wrist, than to take your phone out.
Here's a radical idea. If you're in a situation where it might be rude to take out your phone to look at texts, DON'T FUCKING DO IT. Seriously. Just turn your phone off and stop being an asshole.
Sorry doctor, your patient died because you didn't react to the message we sent you. But on the up side, at least one Anonymous Coward doesn't believe your an asshole. At least not for the reason of looking at your phone.
Google fixed it right away too, and then pushed the patch out via Play to everyone, and added detection if the exploit to the built in scanner for non-Play apps.
Actually, they had already fixed it two months before, but waited to tell the public until at least some devices where actually fixed. And then they fixed a very similar bug again two months later. And then most devices still didn't even have the first patch. Don't try to kid me, stick to your own illusions.
Why isn't this getting more coverage? When it's Android everyone shits themselves, even though the danger isn't really that great. When it's Apple, it's largely ignored even though the risk seems to be far greater.
Because it was just reported. And has already been fixed. And everybody can download the patch now and not only in a couple of months, if at all. And isn't used in the wild. And still gets wide press coverage despite your claim.
You can start complaining if after 2 months it becomes clear that the fix (which hasn't reached most devices yet) only fixes some of the problems.
It happened with ABS and airbags. People felt safer, so they went faster.
Got any evidence to back that assertion up? Personally I've never heard of anyone saying some permutation of "yeah, I've got ABS and an airbag so I'm invulnerable now". Show me some statistics that demonstrate a significant increase in accidents attributable to ABS and/or airbags.
ABS has close to
a zero net effect on fatal crash involvements. Fatal run-off-road
crashes of passenger cars increased by
a statistically significant 9 percent (90% confidence bounds: 3% to
15% increase), offset by a significant 13-percent reduction in fatal collisions with pedestrians (confidence
bounds: 5% to 20%) and a significant
12-percent reduction in collisions
with other vehicles on wet roads
(confidence bounds: 3% to 20%).
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I don't give a crap about either of them, as long as they supply an affordable, durable water resistant phablet, with swappable long life battery,
You 're out of device then, period.
What's the cheapest way to legally watch The Walking Dead? How about Grey's Anatomy?
Wait. Then buy the boxed-set DVD (do they still make those?), watch them, then sell the DVDs in the classifieds for half what you paid.
Well, if you are willing to wait that long to save a few bucks, you might as well wait a few years longer and watch the shows for on syndication.
So you don't watch Walking Dead because there exists news? That's the dumbest argument I've ever heard.
Hey, watch the RNC, and it's not only funny as hell, it actually is "The Walking Dead".
You don't have to avoid new phones. There's good new phones out there, which have standard headphone jacks. Just not from stupid Apple.
The Galaxy S7 just came out, and it still has a headphone jack.
Are you some kind of paid shill, or just a plain normal moron? Which Apple phones don't have a standard headphone jack?
The Apple II computer even had a 3.5mm audio out jack and Audio In jack. They should preserve the functionality in the iPhone so I can emulate an Apple II on it and connect it to a cassette player to load basic programs from tape.
The IBM PC had a cassette port. Any "PC" that doesn't isn't actually a Personal Computer.
When something is used by the majority of people its not "legacy". Are the tires on a car a legacy feature?
Full rubber on a wooden rim? Yeah, pretty much.
Apple's not a computer manufacturer.
Yeah, that's why they appear on the top 5 computer makers list - because they don't actually sell any.
That's stupid. You didn't get hit because they didn't cross immediately in front of your vehicle. You could have been doing 80, and been well past them when they crossed. It was luck, or just happy non-coincidence, if you will.
Yeah, those well above a million deer-vehicle collision per year in the US don't actually happen. Or on crossings where the deer had green light and a drunk driver ran his red.
Latest data
Your "latest data" is like all you latest data, out of date. Why do you always pretend?
But in addition you again ignore my original point. Nor do you disprove my other point - actually the article confirms it.
What I like is that Apple is putting all their resources into Mobile,
Yawn. They put far more into the Mac than they did 10 years ago - and the marketshare turned up as a result. So do they in all other segments of their business, old and new - well apart from the iPod. Not to mention those projects that aren't even on the market yet.
But please do keep deluding yourself.
It's a "semi" autonomous system. You're not supposed to set it then read a book or watch a movie. .
Considering a few people do that in plain normal cars without any assistance ...
No I get it - my point is how can you call this an "autopilot" if it doesn't even read road signs or figure out speed limits from GPS location or something. It's more of a "tries keep the car in your lane" device. I know it's just a detail, but lawyers have won lawsuits for less.
And consumers either wouldn't buy an autonomous car you couldn't tell to always drive x mph above speed limit, or they would hack it.
As usual, the truth is somewhere in between. The increased sales from two years ago are due to moving into new markets like China. The fall is due to declining sales in their original western markets.
Since the Chinese market is growing fast they would be doing badly if they weren't increasing their sales rapidly too. But actually, when you look at the numbers, they are getting some stiff competition from Chinese manufacturers and from the usual Samsung/HTC/Sony/etc. block. Investors tend to be good at maths so they consider this to be bad news. Not terrible or a sign of impending disaster or anything like that, but not a good sign either.
Yeah? You mean the stiff competition didn't actually wipe away the previous years competition instead? Where the fuck is Xiaomi now, the company that was sure to blow away Apple? And if you and the investors were good at math, you wouldn't expect Apple to sell more phones just a year after they released their first phablet (which coincidently is also the product that drove up their sales far beyond what you expect). Because Apple buyers don't buy a new phone every year, no matter what "experts" claim.
Apple's best bet for the long term is to introduce iPhone 7.
FTFY
The problem is that sales are going down for the second or third quarter in a row. Tablet and phone sales across the industry are down. Apple's biggest seller by far is the iPhone and its sales are slumping.
Again, you are ignoring just how well they did last year. Compared to the same Quarter 2 years ago, Apple sold 14.8% more iPhones. IOW, if Apple had sold 9.8 million iPhones less in FQ3 of 2015, we'd be looking at a comfortable climb of 7.1% for this and the previous year's quarter.
Except it doesn't work in urban areas. I live and work on downtown Seattle. I have to plug my phone I since Bluetooth never works.
So? The rumour - and let's not ignore this is still a rumour that started 2 years ago - is that Apple would ship Lightning headphones with the jack-less iPhones. IOW wired.
It was a correct copy/paste. That sentence is as-is in TFA. So, he didn't fuck it up, he just didn't fix the typo from TFA.
Well, if the summary is to believed, the submitter linked to his own fuckingly bad report at venturetards.
These always struck me as a fad waiting to die, but I'm not trying to be the usual Slashdot curmudgeon, so I'll ask: what are the killer features of a smart watch?
According to Apple's WWDC keynote, if you're in a wheelchair, a watch is far easier to access than a smart phone. That's apparently their biggest market: people in wheelchairs.
Well, there are more people in wheelchairs than people on Slashdot. And there are more people not in a wheelchair who own an Apple Watch than Apple Watch owners in a wheelchair. IOW, who cares what you think your point is.
My old MotoACTV was pretty functional.
It had on board GPS, WiFi, BlueTooth 4.0, and ANT+.
What it didn't do was replacing a phone - which is what the thread was about. But thanks for trying to change the topic.
It's just further proof of the old saying, "A fool and his money are soon parted".
some mumbling about how its more socially acceptable to glance at texts on your wrist, than to take your phone out.
Here's a radical idea. If you're in a situation where it might be rude to take out your phone to look at texts, DON'T FUCKING DO IT. Seriously. Just turn your phone off and stop being an asshole.
Sorry doctor, your patient died because you didn't react to the message we sent you. But on the up side, at least one Anonymous Coward doesn't believe your an asshole. At least not for the reason of looking at your phone.
Google fixed it right away too, and then pushed the patch out via Play to everyone, and added detection if the exploit to the built in scanner for non-Play apps.
Actually, they had already fixed it two months before, but waited to tell the public until at least some devices where actually fixed. And then they fixed a very similar bug again two months later. And then most devices still didn't even have the first patch. Don't try to kid me, stick to your own illusions.
What happens to those older devices, which can not be updated to latest IOS? Such devices are still sold as new in stores to clueless customers.
The ones where the bug isn't found? They will have to live with the fact that they where never vulnerable
Why isn't this getting more coverage? When it's Android everyone shits themselves, even though the danger isn't really that great. When it's Apple, it's largely ignored even though the risk seems to be far greater.
Because it was just reported. And has already been fixed. And everybody can download the patch now and not only in a couple of months, if at all. And isn't used in the wild. And still gets wide press coverage despite your claim.
You can start complaining if after 2 months it becomes clear that the fix (which hasn't reached most devices yet) only fixes some of the problems.
I think we should ban pokemon Go players from getting in the US until we figure out what the fuck is going on
Just build a virtual wall.
It happened with ABS and airbags. People felt safer, so they went faster.
Got any evidence to back that assertion up? Personally I've never heard of anyone saying some permutation of "yeah, I've got ABS and an airbag so I'm invulnerable now". Show me some statistics that demonstrate a significant increase in accidents attributable to ABS and/or airbags.
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.g...
ABS has close to a zero net effect on fatal crash involvements. Fatal run-off-road crashes of passenger cars increased by a statistically significant 9 percent (90% confidence bounds: 3% to 15% increase), offset by a significant 13-percent reduction in fatal collisions with pedestrians (confidence bounds: 5% to 20%) and a significant 12-percent reduction in collisions with other vehicles on wet roads (confidence bounds: 3% to 20%).