I love it when the android fanbois bring up the small amount of ram in iOS devices; as if maximum ram utilization was the thing we should optimize for in mobile devices.
I wonder if any hospitals use an open source EMR, open-emr.org for example?
Conceptually it seems like a good fit. A hospital could spend a fraction of what it would have paid for licensing fees on a few programmers to push the project forward. It'd be a lot less work to customize the flows clinicians use to match the procedures at that organization. The customizations could be shared with the wider community and become best practices, etc.
Assuming no major hospital is using an open source EMR, why not?
I don't get all the apple hate on this. Going port-less seems _obvious_ to me. I'm sure the major flagship android phones will do this as well.
The primary arguments against this idea seem to be:
1) It will be inconvenient to charge away from home. 2) It will be impossible to reset in the case of an error. 3) It will be impossible to use existing wired headphones. 4) It will be difficult to copy data off the phone.
However, IMO...
1) Qi charging is becoming ubiquitous; Cars, restraunts, hotels, will have wireless chargers. Battery life is getting better, my iPhone X can easily go 2 days between charges if I use the battery saver mode from the start, probably 3 if I turned it off while sleeping. Wireless chargers are cheep, $20 on amazon, plugs in anywhere you have USB.
2) I haven't had to hold buttons to reset my iPhone in over 3 years. Still, it's very likely they'll come up with a way to do this. If not, it'll be valid criticism, until then, its FUD.
3) You already need an adapter to use wired headphones. Now the adapter will have to be bluetooth enabled. It's really not much of a loss. 1st gen AirPods work great and are selling well, so I would expect that sort of wirelessness to be the future anyway.
4) Between iCloud and airdrop, this is a solved problem.
Do I think apple is above criticism? No, the current Mac line is in shambles.
Would such a device be of less use to some people? Sure, and they may be able to use androids for a while, but such folks will have to adapt eventually.
Could apple screw this up? Sure, especially in the 1st generation. Bendgate, you're holding it wrong, plenty of examples here. But they usually learn from their mistakes.
Sure, thats pretty standard boilerplate. I don't think anybody would consider it "right". My thought is, that doesn't even make it legal.
This is the kind of thing I'm referring to: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/07/court-says-no-to-changing-terms-of-service-without-notification/
As the IT guy for my family, I've insisted they all use apple products. Below I mostly rever to macOS and PC, but the same arguments apply to iOS and android. Here's my reasoning:
1) Less issues per hour. In my experience, for non-power users, macs are more reliable than PCs. 2) Less time to resolution. The types of issues macs have typically take me 10-30 minutes to solve over the phone. Probably 90% of windows problems can be solved with nothing more than a reboot, but when that doesn't work it can take hours to noodle out. 3) Customer support. If the going gets tough, I can send them to apple. The genius bar will talk to customers about almost anything.
I also use apple products for different reasons: macOS: It's the most complete / reliable unix laptop I can buy that I know of. iOS: When I started the iPhone was significantly better than any competing android. That is no longer the case, but the android deivces are not better enough to be worth switching for. appleTV: I've had each device from gen1 - 4. When I started the gen 1 was the best option. That's no longer the case, and other devices are compelling enough to switch. I have several gen 3 devices so vendor lock-in is still pretty strong, and siri on the TV is pretty awesome. Despite that, having to serve content from itunes is a pain, and its somewhat limiting in how I can encode video from my DVR. I plan to try Kodi or MythTV next.
Caveat1: I pushed my family to OS X around 2002 when I started using it. I've spent less than 200 hours using windows since then. Windows is probably less crap than it was back then, but I have no reason to switch back.
Caveat2: I bought my Son a windows computer for gaming 2 Christmas ago. I paid about $400 for extra warranty, insurance, and enhanced customer support over 4 years. I don't work on that computer.
1. How do AirPods fair in this regard? If Apple's custom bluetooth hardware is able to punch through, then that IMO would be HUGE.
Mostly the same as any other BT headphones. The advantage is you tell them to connect on your device, not via the headphones. To me its more acceptable to mess around with my phone in my hands vs the headset in my ears when it doesn't connect.
2. Are they designed the same as their other earPods? I have the basic wired earphones that came with my iPhone, and I just can't wear them for long. Their solid unyielding structure presses on my ears in just the wrong way, and becomes shockingly painful if I wear them for more than 30 minutes. My only option is to keep them as loose in my ear as possible, risking them falling out.
They fit exactily the same as wired ear pods.
3. Related to 2: Are they noise isolating? One of the thing I like most about my current set of (otherwise crappy) bluetooth headphones, is that they suction against the ear and isolate the sometimes incredibly loud surrounding din of the city. While my earPods sound perfectly good, they make no effort at isolating my ears, which means if it gets noisy, I have to either stop listening entirely or crank the volume up and hurt my ears. Based on the product page, it looks like the AirPods follow the same overall structure as the rest of Apple's headphones.
They have no active noise canceling technology. They don't fit tight enough to passively block much noise either.
They are also not low latency. I bought mine for use with my guitar, but they are much to slow to be of any use. I kept them anyway because they are 10x more convenient than wired headphones for everyday use. YMMV
I have prime video but, amazon has no app for my prefered TV watching device (4th gen apple tv). If I didn't end up watching at my dads house on his roku, I would have torrented it.
Norms don't know what 802.11 is or care about its variants. If it couldn't stream netflix or youtube they would take it back to best buy or walmart and they'd stop selling it. Until then...
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I love it when the android fanbois bring up the small amount of ram in iOS devices; as if maximum ram utilization was the thing we should optimize for in mobile devices.
I wonder if any hospitals use an open source EMR, open-emr.org for example?
Conceptually it seems like a good fit. A hospital could spend a fraction of what it would have paid for licensing fees on a few programmers to push the project forward. It'd be a lot less work to customize the flows clinicians use to match the procedures at that organization. The customizations could be shared with the wider community and become best practices, etc.
Assuming no major hospital is using an open source EMR, why not?
It is hard. If you didn't think it was hard, somebody else worked very hard to give you that experience.
The rest of your point remains valid.
I think I paid $160 for a gen4 Apple TV about 2 years ago. It's now worth about $80. That's $3.33 / month.
Netflix will just have to add a local YouTube-like content area.
This sounds like the best possible outcome.
The way youtube has been jacking around its creators, I'm sure plenty of good channels would be happy to co-locate on Netflix.
I don't get all the apple hate on this. Going port-less seems _obvious_ to me. I'm sure the major flagship android phones will do this as well.
The primary arguments against this idea seem to be:
1) It will be inconvenient to charge away from home.
2) It will be impossible to reset in the case of an error.
3) It will be impossible to use existing wired headphones.
4) It will be difficult to copy data off the phone.
However, IMO...
1) Qi charging is becoming ubiquitous; Cars, restraunts, hotels, will have wireless chargers. Battery life is getting better, my iPhone X can easily go 2 days between charges if I use the battery saver mode from the start, probably 3 if I turned it off while sleeping. Wireless chargers are cheep, $20 on amazon, plugs in anywhere you have USB.
2) I haven't had to hold buttons to reset my iPhone in over 3 years. Still, it's very likely they'll come up with a way to do this. If not, it'll be valid criticism, until then, its FUD.
3) You already need an adapter to use wired headphones. Now the adapter will have to be bluetooth enabled. It's really not much of a loss. 1st gen AirPods work great and are selling well, so I would expect that sort of wirelessness to be the future anyway.
4) Between iCloud and airdrop, this is a solved problem.
Do I think apple is above criticism? No, the current Mac line is in shambles.
Would such a device be of less use to some people? Sure, and they may be able to use androids for a while, but such folks will have to adapt eventually.
Could apple screw this up? Sure, especially in the 1st generation. Bendgate, you're holding it wrong, plenty of examples here. But they usually learn from their mistakes.
Am I overlooking something?
Sure, thats pretty standard boilerplate. I don't think anybody would consider it "right". My thought is, that doesn't even make it legal.
This is the kind of thing I'm referring to: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/07/court-says-no-to-changing-terms-of-service-without-notification/
So, they got a bunch of people to sign up for 1-year plans, then changed the plan. How's this legal?
This is why I use my phone to pay, wherever it's accepted.
A lawyer for Verizon would oppose nationalizing part of Verizon's business.
As the IT guy for my family, I've insisted they all use apple products. Below I mostly rever to macOS and PC, but the same arguments apply to iOS and android. Here's my reasoning:
1) Less issues per hour. In my experience, for non-power users, macs are more reliable than PCs.
2) Less time to resolution. The types of issues macs have typically take me 10-30 minutes to solve over the phone. Probably 90% of windows problems can be solved with nothing more than a reboot, but when that doesn't work it can take hours to noodle out.
3) Customer support. If the going gets tough, I can send them to apple. The genius bar will talk to customers about almost anything.
I also use apple products for different reasons:
macOS: It's the most complete / reliable unix laptop I can buy that I know of.
iOS: When I started the iPhone was significantly better than any competing android. That is no longer the case, but the android deivces are not better enough to be worth switching for.
appleTV: I've had each device from gen1 - 4. When I started the gen 1 was the best option. That's no longer the case, and other devices are compelling enough to switch. I have several gen 3 devices so vendor lock-in is still pretty strong, and siri on the TV is pretty awesome. Despite that, having to serve content from itunes is a pain, and its somewhat limiting in how I can encode video from my DVR. I plan to try Kodi or MythTV next.
Caveat1: I pushed my family to OS X around 2002 when I started using it. I've spent less than 200 hours using windows since then. Windows is probably less crap than it was back then, but I have no reason to switch back.
Caveat2: I bought my Son a windows computer for gaming 2 Christmas ago. I paid about $400 for extra warranty, insurance, and enhanced customer support over 4 years. I don't work on that computer.
1. How do AirPods fair in this regard? If Apple's custom bluetooth hardware is able to punch through, then that IMO would be HUGE.
Mostly the same as any other BT headphones. The advantage is you tell them to connect on your device, not via the headphones. To me its more acceptable to mess around with my phone in my hands vs the headset in my ears when it doesn't connect.
2. Are they designed the same as their other earPods? I have the basic wired earphones that came with my iPhone, and I just can't wear them for long. Their solid unyielding structure presses on my ears in just the wrong way, and becomes shockingly painful if I wear them for more than 30 minutes. My only option is to keep them as loose in my ear as possible, risking them falling out.
They fit exactily the same as wired ear pods.
3. Related to 2: Are they noise isolating? One of the thing I like most about my current set of (otherwise crappy) bluetooth headphones, is that they suction against the ear and isolate the sometimes incredibly loud surrounding din of the city. While my earPods sound perfectly good, they make no effort at isolating my ears, which means if it gets noisy, I have to either stop listening entirely or crank the volume up and hurt my ears. Based on the product page, it looks like the AirPods follow the same overall structure as the rest of Apple's headphones.
They have no active noise canceling technology. They don't fit tight enough to passively block much noise either.
They are also not low latency. I bought mine for use with my guitar, but they are much to slow to be of any use. I kept them anyway because they are 10x more convenient than wired headphones for everyday use. YMMV
I have prime video but, amazon has no app for my prefered TV watching device (4th gen apple tv). If I didn't end up watching at my dads house on his roku, I would have torrented it.
Norms don't know what 802.11 is or care about its variants. If it couldn't stream netflix or youtube they would take it back to best buy or walmart and they'd stop selling it. Until then...