Used to be reasonably common to have proprietary headphone sockets on phones. I seem to remember Motorola did it, and I -think- Ericsson but might be misremembering. There was an iPhone iteration that had a proprietary socket as well (or was it iPod? Not sure - they scrapped the decision after one generation). Taking them away completely isn't common yet but you're right, Apple wasn't the first to do so.
It always amused me that the first thing this brave new world of decentralised control recreated was....currency and commodity speculation. They're being introduced to the idea of support and resistance levels, all standard stuff. The difference with crypto is that the volatility resulting from these swings is enormous.
On the off chance you're serious - you're an idiot. It's working fine now, in much the same way the Ford Pinto was fine when parked on a drive. You are endangering yourself - fine, you get that right. But you are endangering others too - not fine, you do not get that right. Turn the damned thing in.
I'm certain it will. But meanwhile potential competitors are starting to make noises about how they are better, and news organisations are lapping them up as fact. They're not - this is just posturing as before. Literally nothing has happened yet - no company knows that it will. Plans should be considered for leaving the UK, plans should be considered for staying in the UK. That's pretty much it.
None of it has happened. None of what was predicted to happen has happened. The triggering of the article to leave hasn't happened. The negotiations haven't happened. The ratification of the negotiations haven't happened...
Maybe a game called Super Mario RUN is not for you then? It's not for me either - that's not reason for me to give it a bad review. Question is whether it succeeds on its own merits.
If it can emulate those consoles, it is shipping images of the copyrighted firmware/BIOS of those consoles. That's the illegaility, well before you reach the the "let's load a game" stage.
All these facilities exist on plenty of devices right now. The only draw of the official ones is precisely that - they're 'official'. If you don't care about that, you've already got a myriad of ways of emulating everything.
Games, or more accurately processes which are graphically demanding. I have a bootcamp'd iMac purely set up for games. I also run several different VMs for different actual work purposes, via VMware Fusion with macOS acting as host. The performance difference is still enough that it makes graphically intensive things worthwhile.
Being picky, it is in debate that they're 'relatively' expensive. Compared to the other flagships they tend to be around the same or cheaper. They don't do cheap phones and so the cost can be high in absolute terms. But in relative ones? Similar to every other flagship.
Maybe not in video, but I worked at an image processing place where we deliberately created a file called "bastard.tif". The purpose of this file was to exploit every aspect of TIFF we could find, and for those familiar with the standard you'll know that's a lot. We used non-standard pixel ratios, we switched encoding mechanisms multiple times through the file...we did everything we could to make a standards-valid TIFF that would crash everything.
Wasn't malicious, we were a commercial data processing shop and image creation/conversion was our thing. We could crash Photoshop (non-square pixels - this is early-to-mid-nineties, no idea if it still crashes it), we could bring down things like Kofax Libraries which at the time were fairly advanced pro image coding libraries. We could crash most Unix utilities for working with images...you get the idea. We definitely were thinking about it, and we were actually doing it. The idea was to know what we could and couldn't do whilst coding our image processing software - we didn't want to create a final image that, whilst technically valid, couldn't actually be used anywhere.
This has been done with South American tribes. There's a great documentary on it - a BBC reporter first lived with the tribe, then years later took some of them to London. I'm coming up short in finding the name of the documentary unfortunately, but the answer is - they coped amazingly well. Looking at tech they'd never seen before (trucks, a lift/elevator, cities) to being flown over - they coped amazingly well.
One thing they didn't quite get was a sense of scale. The leader of the tribe was brought over, and he had expected to meet the leader of the tribe in the UK too - the Queen, to be specific. Nope, didn't happen. In terms of coping socially though - they did an excellent job, which leads me to believe that this kind of thing is socially possible.
In iOS 9? No, iOS 8 Music was 'better' in the sense it was considerably more simple to use. iOS 9 music packed on more text, but nothing readable. iOS 10 - not sure about functionality changes, but the text is now chunky and clearly designed to be glanced at, i.e. used on the move, rather than iOS 9's "I am going to sit and admire the beauty of this interface before making a single touch gesture".
iOS 9 redesigned the Music app to the point where I, a 44 year-old, could barely see it let alone read/use it. The overly chunky iOS 10 version was such an incredible relief. Have to say this is a big bug-bear of mine.
Hello 25 year-old graphic designers. Congratulations on being a designer - enjoy it. But please, please show your designs to more than just your peer group. You may get a surprise.
Total inversion of what happened. Apple didn't want DRM and was forced to add it. Here's Job's thoughts on DRM.
There's still some hypocrisy though. I agree with them for music - I would also agree with them for TV and films, but I'm not hearing the same level of pressure from them.
Kind of like another poster - that's not really what I meant. I'm 44 myself, have been gaming since the ZX Spectrum days (and slightly before in the arcades). I love Skyrim, but I love Pikmin as well and I still emulate a few C64 games to play. No, what I meant by the kids console bit was that it's putting it in a difficult position - I think existing phones and tablets occupy the niche it seems to be aiming for.
If it's good enough to drive at all, it's good enough to be put to use for the purpose I bought it. That purpose might well be a revenue-earning ride sharing thing. Sounds like they're looking for a rent cut from your own purchased car.
Totally agree - the "kid's console" thing has been rife since maybe the SNES. I thoroughly enjoyed my Gamecube, and the Wii as well. I'm not much of a 'hardcore' gamer, which seems to consist of endless first person shooters to me. That said, I think the kids market is shrinking because you have phones on the one hand, and then the powerful 'hardcore' consoles (and PCs) on the other. I have no market data to back this up with, it's pure opinion - it does seem to me though that niche has been taken by phones.
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You mean Apple's Hypervisor API?
Used to be reasonably common to have proprietary headphone sockets on phones. I seem to remember Motorola did it, and I -think- Ericsson but might be misremembering. There was an iPhone iteration that had a proprietary socket as well (or was it iPod? Not sure - they scrapped the decision after one generation). Taking them away completely isn't common yet but you're right, Apple wasn't the first to do so.
It always amused me that the first thing this brave new world of decentralised control recreated was....currency and commodity speculation. They're being introduced to the idea of support and resistance levels, all standard stuff. The difference with crypto is that the volatility resulting from these swings is enormous.
On the off chance you're serious - you're an idiot. It's working fine now, in much the same way the Ford Pinto was fine when parked on a drive. You are endangering yourself - fine, you get that right. But you are endangering others too - not fine, you do not get that right. Turn the damned thing in.
I'm certain it will. But meanwhile potential competitors are starting to make noises about how they are better, and news organisations are lapping them up as fact. They're not - this is just posturing as before. Literally nothing has happened yet - no company knows that it will. Plans should be considered for leaving the UK, plans should be considered for staying in the UK. That's pretty much it.
If. Maybe. Perhaps.
None of it has happened. None of what was predicted to happen has happened. The triggering of the article to leave hasn't happened. The negotiations haven't happened. The ratification of the negotiations haven't happened...
Pointless.
Maybe a game called Super Mario RUN is not for you then? It's not for me either - that's not reason for me to give it a bad review. Question is whether it succeeds on its own merits.
If it can emulate those consoles, it is shipping images of the copyrighted firmware/BIOS of those consoles. That's the illegaility, well before you reach the the "let's load a game" stage.
All these facilities exist on plenty of devices right now. The only draw of the official ones is precisely that - they're 'official'. If you don't care about that, you've already got a myriad of ways of emulating everything.
That's fair as well - cheers.
That's a lot of words to say Google cloned Find My Friends...
Games, or more accurately processes which are graphically demanding. I have a bootcamp'd iMac purely set up for games. I also run several different VMs for different actual work purposes, via VMware Fusion with macOS acting as host. The performance difference is still enough that it makes graphically intensive things worthwhile.
Wasn't aware the MacBook was a phone...
Being picky, it is in debate that they're 'relatively' expensive. Compared to the other flagships they tend to be around the same or cheaper. They don't do cheap phones and so the cost can be high in absolute terms. But in relative ones? Similar to every other flagship.
Maybe not in video, but I worked at an image processing place where we deliberately created a file called "bastard.tif". The purpose of this file was to exploit every aspect of TIFF we could find, and for those familiar with the standard you'll know that's a lot. We used non-standard pixel ratios, we switched encoding mechanisms multiple times through the file...we did everything we could to make a standards-valid TIFF that would crash everything.
Wasn't malicious, we were a commercial data processing shop and image creation/conversion was our thing. We could crash Photoshop (non-square pixels - this is early-to-mid-nineties, no idea if it still crashes it), we could bring down things like Kofax Libraries which at the time were fairly advanced pro image coding libraries. We could crash most Unix utilities for working with images...you get the idea. We definitely were thinking about it, and we were actually doing it. The idea was to know what we could and couldn't do whilst coding our image processing software - we didn't want to create a final image that, whilst technically valid, couldn't actually be used anywhere.
This has been done with South American tribes. There's a great documentary on it - a BBC reporter first lived with the tribe, then years later took some of them to London. I'm coming up short in finding the name of the documentary unfortunately, but the answer is - they coped amazingly well. Looking at tech they'd never seen before (trucks, a lift/elevator, cities) to being flown over - they coped amazingly well.
One thing they didn't quite get was a sense of scale. The leader of the tribe was brought over, and he had expected to meet the leader of the tribe in the UK too - the Queen, to be specific. Nope, didn't happen. In terms of coping socially though - they did an excellent job, which leads me to believe that this kind of thing is socially possible.
Someone cared.
That's not what's meant - we're talking CRLF vs just CR, not all the rich text stuff.
In iOS 9? No, iOS 8 Music was 'better' in the sense it was considerably more simple to use. iOS 9 music packed on more text, but nothing readable. iOS 10 - not sure about functionality changes, but the text is now chunky and clearly designed to be glanced at, i.e. used on the move, rather than iOS 9's "I am going to sit and admire the beauty of this interface before making a single touch gesture".
iOS 9 redesigned the Music app to the point where I, a 44 year-old, could barely see it let alone read/use it. The overly chunky iOS 10 version was such an incredible relief. Have to say this is a big bug-bear of mine.
Hello 25 year-old graphic designers. Congratulations on being a designer - enjoy it. But please, please show your designs to more than just your peer group. You may get a surprise.
Total inversion of what happened. Apple didn't want DRM and was forced to add it. Here's Job's thoughts on DRM.
There's still some hypocrisy though. I agree with them for music - I would also agree with them for TV and films, but I'm not hearing the same level of pressure from them.
Kind of like another poster - that's not really what I meant. I'm 44 myself, have been gaming since the ZX Spectrum days (and slightly before in the arcades). I love Skyrim, but I love Pikmin as well and I still emulate a few C64 games to play. No, what I meant by the kids console bit was that it's putting it in a difficult position - I think existing phones and tablets occupy the niche it seems to be aiming for.
If it's good enough to drive at all, it's good enough to be put to use for the purpose I bought it. That purpose might well be a revenue-earning ride sharing thing. Sounds like they're looking for a rent cut from your own purchased car.
Totally agree - the "kid's console" thing has been rife since maybe the SNES. I thoroughly enjoyed my Gamecube, and the Wii as well. I'm not much of a 'hardcore' gamer, which seems to consist of endless first person shooters to me. That said, I think the kids market is shrinking because you have phones on the one hand, and then the powerful 'hardcore' consoles (and PCs) on the other. I have no market data to back this up with, it's pure opinion - it does seem to me though that niche has been taken by phones.
Hmm. Well, I am a gamer-with-kids. I use a Steam Link to get to the TV, or inside the house I'll use a laptop/steam streaming.