Hypercard was incredible back then. If Apple had thought about integrating it with network features from the beginning, the internet might have looked a lot different.
Yes, it is true that the battery is currently still a pain point, and it will take a few more years to break the 1 week barrier. I don't think it will stop sales though, people are so used to charge their phone daily.
But I also think that the battery is just one of the many elements, and even an Apple hater has to admit that they were thorough and innovative in several areas, most notably in the straps and bracelets. These things have been in status quo since decades inthe traditional watch world, while Apple truly started from scratch. For example you can resize the bracelet without tools. No sales clerk hammering on it. Then you have the straps with the magnetic locks. And the sporty straps wher ethe leftover bit folds under the strap, which is very neat (I expect that this last one comes from designer Mark Newsom who is assisting Apple with the watch design, he had done similar straps for his ikepod brand). Also the lugs of the straps are integrated and can easily be replaced, meaning every strap can have the ideal lug instead of the generic one on traditional watches.
In general the material choice is also more akin quality watches than the Pebble etc, for example the ceramic back.
All in all, while the local Apple hate puts blinders on the eyes of many slashdotters, if you have an open mind you have to admit that they really thought things through.
Will I buy one? Maybe in v2 or v3 when they will have added more sensors. The health focus will be the killer app for commercial success.
>> The new iOS 8 makes older iPhones slow and dysfunctional. So fuck you Apple.
I waited to upgrade my iPhone 4S until the recent release of IOS8.1. It seems to work pretty well. Indeed, there is a bit of slowdown but it is quite acceptable. For a 3 year old device this is quite good support, I'd say. I have not yet tried 8.1 on my iPad 2. Does anyone have experience with it?
Where did I claim or even infer that the US is at fault ? Reading comprehension, young padawan!
Global warming and pollution are issues to be handled by every country. Finger pointing is not productive.
I mean it seriously, we need to think about what kind of world we leave for our children.
There is global warming, leading to more chaotic and extreme weather patterns. There is also pollution in general/
I currently live in Hong Kong. In general that is a great experience but there are days when lots of smog comes from the Shenzen area. I first thought it was fog, that is how bad it can be.
We should all do an effort, on country, company and personal level to make this world more livable for our children.
From personal experience I doubt if you'll get useful info out of the panels and presentations, I mean information that you could not get otherwise. But of course your conference may be different the ones I sometimes attend or where I occasionally have to speak.
However in my experience, conferences are good for networking, which is important in longer term career or commercial planning.
Would I pay for my work related conferences? Probably not.
Of course there will be plenty of cynism here but I think it is in general a good & commendable effort for transparency.
Interesting is the section on government information request:
National Security Orders from the U.S. government.
A tiny percentage of our millions of accounts is affected by national security-related requests. In the first six months of 2014, we received 250 or fewer of these requests. Though we would like to be more specific, by law this is the most precise information we are currently allowed to disclose.
No warrant canary required, it is here in the open.
So what could be the kind of thing asked taken into account the other the other privacy information on the site?
Such simplistic reasoning. It is obvious that the above products became successful because they spend a lot of effort in improving the user experience considerably. It is an important step in product development that for some reason most tech companies do not do as well. And making something simple to use is not evident either, otherwise others would have done it before.
This is not simply marketing.
I can indeed imagine that in some cases it would be possible to find the answer to the password security questions by doing some googling about the celebrity.
With 2 factor authentication this would not have been an issue.
I still wonder how the hackers got access to the email addresses of the celebrities they targeted? Because this is the necessary first step. Sloppy industry agents perhaps?
I realise that it is not free, but it is offered at an accessible price and it is smooth and rich enough for non-professional movie editing. More stable and less hassle than any of the open source editors that I experimented with previously. Also a product wih a future.
Avid had a free DV editor package but that was discontinued. Perhaps you can still find it. Roughly similar in features as a previous generation iMovie.
Currently I simply use the current iMovie on my Mac, I realise that the OP doesn't have a Mac though I must say that it produces excellent results smoothly and its features are largely good enough for non-professional use. I did briefly use Final Cut Express in the past but realised it was too much of a good thing for me.
NFC exists since several years but there is not exactly general, widespread take-up. Whether you like Apple or not, they are in a good position to enable wide adoption. Their products tend to offer accessible funtionality, and they are big enough to leverage their relationship with the credit card companies, hence I can see them having success.
Even so this is part of normal technical evolution. If Apple doesn't crack the nut, eventually someone else will. I am more interested in the expected wearable health-oriented device (probably an iwatch) that will likely be announced as well next week. Smartwatches in general are terribly nerdy and unattractive, yet a succesful health-oriented product could be a quality of life improver. It could be a big thing.
That Stockholm syndrome is some really powerful shit...
Clearly you are a hater. But why waste the energy? I use an iphone 4S since 3 years and I don't mindwhen others use whatever Android device. Good for them. Good for me.
I don't care much for the social media accounts, but it is good that bought ebooks, music and movies should be accessible to next of kin, just like their physical counterparts are.
Ah my young padawan, you are wrong about the license. It is a binding contract that is accepted when placing the order.
In our case, the database costs a lot of effort to keep up to date. It is a small part of an affordable tool for manual use. It is perfectly inline with normal practice that an integration license of this database is separate and more expensive. If everyone would simply buy the cheap product and reuse the database elsewhere, then quite simply we would bot be able to continue updating the database.
Also, in professional organisations it would next to normal compliance with terms of use, be more expensive to put the man effort to try to decrypt these files.
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Hypercard was incredible back then. If Apple had thought about integrating it with network features from the beginning, the internet might have looked a lot different.
Yes, it is true that the battery is currently still a pain point, and it will take a few more years to break the 1 week barrier. I don't think it will stop sales though, people are so used to charge their phone daily.
But I also think that the battery is just one of the many elements, and even an Apple hater has to admit that they were thorough and innovative in several areas, most notably in the straps and bracelets. These things have been in status quo since decades inthe traditional watch world, while Apple truly started from scratch. For example you can resize the bracelet without tools. No sales clerk hammering on it. Then you have the straps with the magnetic locks. And the sporty straps wher ethe leftover bit folds under the strap, which is very neat (I expect that this last one comes from designer Mark Newsom who is assisting Apple with the watch design, he had done similar straps for his ikepod brand). Also the lugs of the straps are integrated and can easily be replaced, meaning every strap can have the ideal lug instead of the generic one on traditional watches.
In general the material choice is also more akin quality watches than the Pebble etc, for example the ceramic back.
All in all, while the local Apple hate puts blinders on the eyes of many slashdotters, if you have an open mind you have to admit that they really thought things through.
Will I buy one? Maybe in v2 or v3 when they will have added more sensors. The health focus will be the killer app for commercial success.
Somehow, I wonder if the Samsung CEO will now suddenly come out.
Somehow i wonder if the Samsung CEO will now also come out.
>> The new iOS 8 makes older iPhones slow and dysfunctional. So fuck you Apple.
I waited to upgrade my iPhone 4S until the recent release of IOS8.1. It seems to work pretty well. Indeed, there is a bit of slowdown but it is quite acceptable. For a 3 year old device this is quite good support, I'd say.
I have not yet tried 8.1 on my iPad 2. Does anyone have experience with it?
After driving 200 miles it is good practice to stop for a few minutes so this recharching should fit right in.
Exactly, it puzzles me why it not left in officially. Performance issues maybe? A non optimal gui? Or a sinister conspiracy?
Where did I claim or even infer that the US is at fault ? Reading comprehension, young padawan! Global warming and pollution are issues to be handled by every country. Finger pointing is not productive.
I am happy that the people I interact with have a more positive attitude to life.
"Our" wasn't meant literally. I don't have children either.
But I think we have a moral obligation towards the next generation.
I mean it seriously, we need to think about what kind of world we leave for our children.
There is global warming, leading to more chaotic and extreme weather patterns. There is also pollution in general/
I currently live in Hong Kong. In general that is a great experience but there are days when lots of smog comes from the Shenzen area. I first thought it was fog, that is how bad it can be.
We should all do an effort, on country, company and personal level to make this world more livable for our children.
From personal experience I doubt if you'll get useful info out of the panels and presentations, I mean information that you could not get otherwise. But of course your conference may be different the ones I sometimes attend or where I occasionally have to speak. However in my experience, conferences are good for networking, which is important in longer term career or commercial planning. Would I pay for my work related conferences? Probably not.
Fair enough, but is it a problem? Any company could get secret requests for 0-250 accounts.
FYI Apple's privacy site is here: http://www.apple.com/privacy/p...
Of course there will be plenty of cynism here but I think it is in general a good & commendable effort for transparency. Interesting is the section on government information request:
National Security Orders from the U.S. government.
A tiny percentage of our millions of accounts is affected by national security-related requests. In the first six months of 2014, we received 250 or fewer of these requests. Though we would like to be more specific, by law this is the most precise information we are currently allowed to disclose.
No warrant canary required, it is here in the open.
So what could be the kind of thing asked taken into account the other the other privacy information on the site?
What else about Apple can we now whine about? Perhaps Tim Cook's recent TV interviews?
Such simplistic reasoning. It is obvious that the above products became successful because they spend a lot of effort in improving the user experience considerably. It is an important step in product development that for some reason most tech companies do not do as well. And making something simple to use is not evident either, otherwise others would have done it before. This is not simply marketing.
"I think an Apple iWatch would be a great asshole-detector."
Good point! When I will eventually wear a v2 I prefer not to engage conversation with superficial/jealous/hating people like you!
I can indeed imagine that in some cases it would be possible to find the answer to the password security questions by doing some googling about the celebrity. With 2 factor authentication this would not have been an issue.
I still wonder how the hackers got access to the email addresses of the celebrities they targeted? Because this is the necessary first step. Sloppy industry agents perhaps?
I realise that it is not free, but it is offered at an accessible price and it is smooth and rich enough for non-professional movie editing. More stable and less hassle than any of the open source editors that I experimented with previously. Also a product wih a future.
Avid had a free DV editor package but that was discontinued. Perhaps you can still find it. Roughly similar in features as a previous generation iMovie.
Currently I simply use the current iMovie on my Mac, I realise that the OP doesn't have a Mac though I must say that it produces excellent results smoothly and its features are largely good enough for non-professional use. I did briefly use Final Cut Express in the past but realised it was too much of a good thing for me.
Oh man, you really need a life. Not a hater, but a whiner.
Boogeyman 'samsung' isn't out to get your device, just like 'IBM' wasn't out to get your mac.
This was in fact exactly my point.
NFC exists since several years but there is not exactly general, widespread take-up. Whether you like Apple or not, they are in a good position to enable wide adoption. Their products tend to offer accessible funtionality, and they are big enough to leverage their relationship with the credit card companies, hence I can see them having success.
Even so this is part of normal technical evolution. If Apple doesn't crack the nut, eventually someone else will. I am more interested in the expected wearable health-oriented device (probably an iwatch) that will likely be announced as well next week. Smartwatches in general are terribly nerdy and unattractive, yet a succesful health-oriented product could be a quality of life improver. It could be a big thing.
Hahahaha! You're proud of being overcharged?
That Stockholm syndrome is some really powerful shit...
Clearly you are a hater. But why waste the energy? I use an iphone 4S since 3 years and I don't mindwhen others use whatever Android device. Good for them. Good for me.
I don't care much for the social media accounts, but it is good that bought ebooks, music and movies should be accessible to next of kin, just like their physical counterparts are.
Ah my young padawan, you are wrong about the license. It is a binding contract that is accepted when placing the order. In our case, the database costs a lot of effort to keep up to date. It is a small part of an affordable tool for manual use. It is perfectly inline with normal practice that an integration license of this database is separate and more expensive. If everyone would simply buy the cheap product and reuse the database elsewhere, then quite simply we would bot be able to continue updating the database. Also, in professional organisations it would next to normal compliance with terms of use, be more expensive to put the man effort to try to decrypt these files.