He isn't predicting what the winning lottery numbers will be. Only that there will be a winner eventually. Which from past experience seems quite reasonable.
You however are quite hung up on exactly what numbers will win, feeling that if we don't know exactly what they are, we can't say that they will indeed exist. That's not how it works.
Personally I believe that it will all turn out perfectly fine. Unfortunately I also believe that the transition will be extremely messy and painful. But that too is completely consistent with history.
They don't have to be a charity, they just have to stop the false advertising. If your service has limits, stop calling it unlimited! I'd that simple.
We have a carrier around here that used to offer unlimited data while connected to their towers, but a specified amount when roaming on other towers. Had Verizon done this it would have been no problem. But instead they resorted to false advertising in a successful attempt to scam customers in to signing up for a service that was not as described.
If you think Apple has ever been ahead of the curve in the phone department you've been drinking way too much of their koolaid. Every feature they've ever launched has been done by someone else before, usually several someone elses.
If that were really true, you'd think that just occasionally Apple might do something that everyone else hasn't already done....
In the past decade or so Apple has never been good at coming up with new inventive features that their competitors don't have. They've only been good at marketing those same features to people several years later.
Apple is the world's most valuable company because they are excellent at marketing. Nothing else.
This has been the big thing with security all along. As long as you are fine with HTTP, why wouldn't you be fine with FTP?
Not everything needs to be secure.
Next time I drive by a billboard on the side of the highway it better be encrypted so I can't read the ad without some security certificates on my end!
That said, browsers have always been positively HORRIBLE FTP clients, so if people decide to use FTP clients instead of browsers to use FTP sites, it's not really a huge loss.
This has nothing to do with any specific president.
As soon as people started carrying electronic devices across the border, they started having them searched.
The problem isn't that electronic devices are being searched at the border. The problem is this ridiculous notion that the laws that apply everywhere else in the country shouldn't also apply at the borders of the country, And that's something that happened so long ago that I don't know if anyone even remembers who the idiot was who thought that was either a good idea, or consistent with the constitution.
You and your new fangled Bakelite! My phone is made out of wood! (Ok, so it has some bakelite parts, but you can't expect to use that for the whole phone!)
Considering Apple has a positively miniscule overall share of the smartphone market compared to Android, it seems rather silly to try to cling to "oh but they'll beat that one other brand one month every year!"
I know you're desperate to claim that your team is winning, but let's face it, Apple's sup-par, over-priced, garbage just doesn't dominate the market the way you seem to think it does.
Android has been far superior to iPhone in every single way since... well, always. it's not How do you claim something is "finally good enough" to beat something that it's been better than from day 1? Apple has never caught up to Android on features, usability, performance, or price since they first launched. And so far, I've seen no indication that they ever will.
But maybe if we made it a grey button on a grey background with no obvious edges and identify it by some obscure symbol that nobody can recognize and printed in a slightly different shade of grey....
Maybe I'm missing something, you're coming off as defending this guy, but you're not doing a great job so far. Do you have an example of GOOD UI design by this guy?
Additionally, how do you really know that the pipe out of the VPN is any more secure than the pipe you're on to start with?
I'm 99% certain that all traffic out of my VPN can be intercepted by a foreign government, because my VPN is located in a foreign country that is well known for having no privacy rights, and an authoritarian government that monitors everything. Whereas most of the time my devices are connecting to networks in a country that has actual privacy laws. (I'm still 90% sure someone is monitoring it, but I sometimes think you just can't win)
Depends what you're doing over that link. If the sites you go to are HTTPS, and the computer is still controlled by you, then they are getting somewhat limited data on your browsing, knowing only what sites you visit, not what you did once you got there. Conversely, using the VPN adds significant latency to your connection, and possibly some cost (depending on your VPN provider's plan, or if you provide your own, depending on your data usage plan for the connection it runs over)
For most things I do, the VPN simply isn't worth it. Now there are some exceptions, and I do use a VPN between my server, my computer, and my car's computer, but I don't bother with one to connect to the public internet as I'm just not all that worried about what people might sniff to be worth the latency hit and extra data usage.
I use my work laptop to work from home over the company VPN. It's necessary to use it to do any work, and makes perfect sense.
I have a personal VPN that connects my home computer (on my xDSL connection), my server (VPS in a data centre) and my car's computer (connected by cellular data) so that I can securely transmit information between them, and not have to worry about the fact that 2 of those 3 devices are on dynamic IPs.
But I don't use a VPN for general internet use because it slows down the connection and racks up billable data usage at 2 locations (home and server) instead of just 1 location (home).
Sure, I know people are probably spying on me, but the tradeoff just isn't really worth it.
Your answer should have been, "The very fact that you know I'm on a VPN proves why I need it". Had he not been trying to spy on your data he would never have known.
Those were mistakes, and mistakes are human. While Jobs was on the right track of usability, he certainly made a lot of fecal-encrusted decisions.
So you've given more examples that prove my point, but none that prove the idea that Jobs was some form of UI genius as he is so often credited with being. I posit that's because he was NOT a UI genius, and in fact was never "on the right track of usability" as evidenced by the idea that most of his inventions were less intuitive, and harder to use, than most of the competition.
Jobs was a genius, but not in UI, or product design, he was a genius in marketing. He could sell people a turd and make them love him for it. It's the only thing Apple has actually been good at for over a decade. Their products are sub-par, and over priced, but they know how to market them!
Apple also started the trend of making the back of your phone as slippery as possible so that you can't place it on a surface with any incline or hold on to it without a death-grip.
No, there IS something wrong with flat design. Just because someone with a lot of skill can make a horrible idea still functional doesn't mean the idea isn't still horrible.
There are all sorts of horrible designs in the world that skilled people can make work well, that doesn't suddenly make them good design, it just shows the skill of the people working with them.
17 years? We've known this quite literally for centuries. "on a computer" doesn't make it different.
Take a look at physical antique devices. Controls used frequently are obvious and not hidden. It was known that if you needed to use something, it had to be obvious that you could use it.
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He isn't predicting what the winning lottery numbers will be. Only that there will be a winner eventually. Which from past experience seems quite reasonable.
You however are quite hung up on exactly what numbers will win, feeling that if we don't know exactly what they are, we can't say that they will indeed exist. That's not how it works.
Personally I believe that it will all turn out perfectly fine. Unfortunately I also believe that the transition will be extremely messy and painful. But that too is completely consistent with history.
They don't have to be a charity, they just have to stop the false advertising. If your service has limits, stop calling it unlimited! I'd that simple.
We have a carrier around here that used to offer unlimited data while connected to their towers, but a specified amount when roaming on other towers. Had Verizon done this it would have been no problem. But instead they resorted to false advertising in a successful attempt to scam customers in to signing up for a service that was not as described.
If you think Apple has ever been ahead of the curve in the phone department you've been drinking way too much of their koolaid. Every feature they've ever launched has been done by someone else before, usually several someone elses.
If that were really true, you'd think that just occasionally Apple might do something that everyone else hasn't already done....
In the past decade or so Apple has never been good at coming up with new inventive features that their competitors don't have. They've only been good at marketing those same features to people several years later.
Apple is the world's most valuable company because they are excellent at marketing. Nothing else.
This has been the big thing with security all along. As long as you are fine with HTTP, why wouldn't you be fine with FTP?
Not everything needs to be secure.
Next time I drive by a billboard on the side of the highway it better be encrypted so I can't read the ad without some security certificates on my end!
That said, browsers have always been positively HORRIBLE FTP clients, so if people decide to use FTP clients instead of browsers to use FTP sites, it's not really a huge loss.
If you're giving a file away for free to everyone, how secure do you need the transport protocol to be?
Obama continued the practice.
Ignoring the Constitution at the border started a VERY long time ago.
This has nothing to do with any specific president.
As soon as people started carrying electronic devices across the border, they started having them searched.
The problem isn't that electronic devices are being searched at the border. The problem is this ridiculous notion that the laws that apply everywhere else in the country shouldn't also apply at the borders of the country, And that's something that happened so long ago that I don't know if anyone even remembers who the idiot was who thought that was either a good idea, or consistent with the constitution.
You and your new fangled Bakelite!
My phone is made out of wood! (Ok, so it has some bakelite parts, but you can't expect to use that for the whole phone!)
This was an IP infringement claim.
In those cases you are always presumed guilty unless proven innocent in a court of law.
Best laws money can buy.
Considering Apple has a positively miniscule overall share of the smartphone market compared to Android, it seems rather silly to try to cling to "oh but they'll beat that one other brand one month every year!"
I know you're desperate to claim that your team is winning, but let's face it, Apple's sup-par, over-priced, garbage just doesn't dominate the market the way you seem to think it does.
"finally good enough"???? uh-huh...
Android has been far superior to iPhone in every single way since... well, always. it's not How do you claim something is "finally good enough" to beat something that it's been better than from day 1? Apple has never caught up to Android on features, usability, performance, or price since they first launched. And so far, I've seen no indication that they ever will.
But maybe if we made it a grey button on a grey background with no obvious edges and identify it by some obscure symbol that nobody can recognize and printed in a slightly different shade of grey....
Maybe I'm missing something, you're coming off as defending this guy, but you're not doing a great job so far. Do you have an example of GOOD UI design by this guy?
Additionally, how do you really know that the pipe out of the VPN is any more secure than the pipe you're on to start with?
I'm 99% certain that all traffic out of my VPN can be intercepted by a foreign government, because my VPN is located in a foreign country that is well known for having no privacy rights, and an authoritarian government that monitors everything. Whereas most of the time my devices are connecting to networks in a country that has actual privacy laws. (I'm still 90% sure someone is monitoring it, but I sometimes think you just can't win)
Depends what you're doing over that link. If the sites you go to are HTTPS, and the computer is still controlled by you, then they are getting somewhat limited data on your browsing, knowing only what sites you visit, not what you did once you got there. Conversely, using the VPN adds significant latency to your connection, and possibly some cost (depending on your VPN provider's plan, or if you provide your own, depending on your data usage plan for the connection it runs over)
For most things I do, the VPN simply isn't worth it. Now there are some exceptions, and I do use a VPN between my server, my computer, and my car's computer, but I don't bother with one to connect to the public internet as I'm just not all that worried about what people might sniff to be worth the latency hit and extra data usage.
I use my work laptop to work from home over the company VPN. It's necessary to use it to do any work, and makes perfect sense.
I have a personal VPN that connects my home computer (on my xDSL connection), my server (VPS in a data centre) and my car's computer (connected by cellular data) so that I can securely transmit information between them, and not have to worry about the fact that 2 of those 3 devices are on dynamic IPs.
But I don't use a VPN for general internet use because it slows down the connection and racks up billable data usage at 2 locations (home and server) instead of just 1 location (home).
Sure, I know people are probably spying on me, but the tradeoff just isn't really worth it.
Your answer should have been, "The very fact that you know I'm on a VPN proves why I need it". Had he not been trying to spy on your data he would never have known.
Those were mistakes, and mistakes are human. While Jobs was on the right track of usability, he certainly made a lot of fecal-encrusted decisions.
So you've given more examples that prove my point, but none that prove the idea that Jobs was some form of UI genius as he is so often credited with being. I posit that's because he was NOT a UI genius, and in fact was never "on the right track of usability" as evidenced by the idea that most of his inventions were less intuitive, and harder to use, than most of the competition.
Jobs was a genius, but not in UI, or product design, he was a genius in marketing. He could sell people a turd and make them love him for it. It's the only thing Apple has actually been good at for over a decade. Their products are sub-par, and over priced, but they know how to market them!
That is an example of "People who insist that just because something is new it must be better"
Change for the sake of change, and an insistence on retaining the status quo despite evidence of a better way, are both equally bad.
Taken from the link you cited:
"Industrial design focuses principally on aesthetic and user-interface aspects of products" (emphasis mine)
So, yeah, his failure to do decent UI means he's not good at industrial design either.
Apple also started the trend of making the back of your phone as slippery as possible so that you can't place it on a surface with any incline or hold on to it without a death-grip.
If a UI requires you to be "smart enough" to navigate it, it's by definition a horrible UI.
No, there IS something wrong with flat design.
Just because someone with a lot of skill can make a horrible idea still functional doesn't mean the idea isn't still horrible.
There are all sorts of horrible designs in the world that skilled people can make work well, that doesn't suddenly make them good design, it just shows the skill of the people working with them.
17 years? We've known this quite literally for centuries. "on a computer" doesn't make it different.
Take a look at physical antique devices. Controls used frequently are obvious and not hidden. It was known that if you needed to use something, it had to be obvious that you could use it.