TL;DR you got five years out of a device that's build for 2-3, and it still works even though it's 5 generations obsolete. It does suck that they forcibly upgraded you past the 2.5 year old version with unpatched security vulnerabilities that you'd been enjoying, but pick yer poison.
Can I watch their content on my Apple TV without streaming it from my phone or iPad? No? Then who cares? As far as I'm concerned, it still hasn't launched.
In before "but Apple walled garden! froth! rant!": the Prime Video app is available for other iOS devices so Amazon is apparently perfectly happy with the fee structure they've worked out with Apple. They're just being petulant.
I use Hiya on my iPhone to tag fraud and spam calls. (Not affiliated in any way; I just like the app.) It regularly pushes updated lists of current bad callers to my phone, and iOS 10's CallKit API queries it every time I get a phone call. I can decide whether I want to accept or automatically reject labeled callers. Numbers in my phonebook are automatically whitelisted by the OS.
That's pretty much the perfect solution in my book. Hiya sends me the lists but it doesn't have any information about what the OS does with those lists. It can't tell who's calling me, for instance. It's entirely my decision how to handle callers.
Give a shot. Worst case: you decide it sucks and continue looking for a good replacement. I still prefer DTPO, but if you already have the ability to run Note Station it's definitely worth a close look.
I self-host. There are a couple of good options that way:
If you have a Synology NAS, you can install Note Station which is basically Evernote but stored on your own server. It has nice (and free) iOS apps, and an Android app that I haven't used. There's no desktop app yet but it does have a nice web interface. This is probably the easiest drop-in replacement for Evernote - if you have a Synology.
If you're in the Apple ecosystem, I love DEVONthink Pro Office (DTPO). It's not so much a note app as a personal knowledge repository. My home ScanSnap scanner deposits docs directly into my DTPO inbox and OCRs them so they're fulltext searchable. It also has a nice UI for creating your own notes, spreadsheets, etc. directly in the app, and great system integrations to make it easy to save data from almost any app into it. It has amazing AI classification stuff, so it can automatically file things that look like invoices into my "Invoices" folder. It has a new iOS app that syncs to it, either via local Wi-Fi peer-to-peer or through your own WebDAV server (with end-to-end encryption so you don't have to trust your storage provider).
Of those two, I prefer DTPO as it's more mature and already does everything imaginable. Note Station is pretty good today, too, and has a lot of promise. Either one will move your data to being 100% in your own control and I like that a lot.
So am I. Say what you will about Apple, but 1) they don't have a monopoly in any of their product spaces and 2) they host their competitors' apps on the same terms as everyone else's. People would be outraged if they were doing something half as shady.
I wouldn't. Cautious, sure! But there are plenty of boring, reputable vendors for that stuff. I'd bet a Dell or IBM charger would be built like a brick, as an example. I'd feel OK with any reputable brand.
Amazon won't release an app for Apple TV (mumbling some crap about "stream from your phone with AirPlay!"), so it's a nonstarter. I don't want to tie up my phone while watching shows on a big screen. Oh, they'll go on about "we're protesting Apple's pricing!" or such, but the app is already on iPhones and iPads!
The real story is that they don't want to undercut their own TV hardware. They dropped Apple TV from sales, and searching for Apple TV on Amazon gives their own crap streamer as the top suggestion. No, Amazon, I don't want your hardware. I already have my own. If I have to buy into your ecosystem to watch Prime Video, I'll stick to Netflix.
You misunderstand: the new MacBook Pros charge via USB-C and not the proprietary magsafe connector. If the dog eats your cord, you can buy a new standard USB-C cable without running to apple, and the chargers themselves are stardardized so you can buy a non-Apple one of those, too.
Sure, buy quality! But you're no longer constrained to getting it from a single vendor.
A new one is $70. That's nuts. Are there any quality third-party vendors? I'm guessing patents on the mag-safe connector means NO.
A month ago:
Apple's getting rid of MagSafe and moving to industry standard USB-C charging? Those greedy bastards!
OK, you in particular might not have been saying it, but the Internet as a whole was. I for one am thrilled that they're moving to a charging system based on parts I can order from Monoprice.
They do. Or more to the point, they provide an API so that third party apps can, and in a privacy-preserving manner:
- Caller ID apps can fetch or generate lists of spam numbers and publish them to the phone's internal storage. It also set options for how to handle different kinds of unwanted calls (spam, fraud, etc.).
- When someone calls, your phone checks against that pre-stored list to categorize the caller. If it's a hit, the phone uses the settings from the previous step to either flag the caller so that you see a warning sign or block the call altogether.
With that design, the apps don't get access to your callers so they can't spy on you. It's the best kind of trust model: the one where you don't have to trust them. I like the Hiya app but there are others.
Uh, no. It's not a standards mark but an indicator of origin. I may think Foo brand shoes suck, but if I want genuine Foo for whatever reason, I want to know I'm buying genuine Foo. Maybe their quality sucks but they're made in a well-respected factory in Colorado, they treat their employees well, and they only emit pure oxygen and distilled water from their factories. The Chinese knockoffs might be better, but I want the Colorado-made product. The whole point of trademarks is that only Foo can claim to make Foo shoes.
Customers can get an Apple TV included with 3 months pre-paid of any DIRECTV NOW package.
The base 32GB Apple TV is currently $149. Looking at it another way, AT&T will sell you an Apple TV at a $44 discount and throw in three free months of live TV programming. That's actually a sweet deal.
PS: This is the first and probably only time you'll hear me describe anything from AT&T as being a decent value.
PPS: In before "apple tv sucks fanboyz lol etc". I have an Apple TV and I like it. You may prefer something else. Yay, here's your cookie. But if you were thinking about buying an Apple TV for Christmas, here's a $44 coupon off.
That's great news! Trademarks are the one part of IP I can happily support. If I want to buy Foo brand shoes, and I see a shoebox marked with Foo's logo, I want to be reasonably sure that it actually contains Foo-approved shoes. Sure, people try to abuse trademarks ("you're not allowed to use our name in a news article criticizing us!" and other jackassery), but the actual concept of trademarks is great. This is the kind of IP law enforcement I actually want to see.
or trying to figure out how to block the driver and let the precious snowflakes in the other seats continue to feed their cellular addictions.
Oh, get over yourself. I ride a bus to work every day. I don't think it's special-snowflakeism to want to read the news while we're trudging along for half an hour. And before your start in with neo-Luddite "ever heard of a book", have you ever tried reading long-form text on public transit? This situation is practically what Twitter and News.app was invented for.
The President can pardon whomever he wishes. Most recently, Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon before charges were even brought. There's plenty of writing on the subject and it's a rather cut-and-dry issue.
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TL;DR you got five years out of a device that's build for 2-3, and it still works even though it's 5 generations obsolete. It does suck that they forcibly upgraded you past the 2.5 year old version with unpatched security vulnerabilities that you'd been enjoying, but pick yer poison.
Can I watch their content on my Apple TV without streaming it from my phone or iPad? No? Then who cares? As far as I'm concerned, it still hasn't launched.
In before "but Apple walled garden! froth! rant!": the Prime Video app is available for other iOS devices so Amazon is apparently perfectly happy with the fee structure they've worked out with Apple. They're just being petulant.
WTF are you going on about?
Yeah, that killed TrueCaller for me. I'm not sure how Hiya's funded but I know it's not from my personal info because I haven't given them any.
I'm not clear on that, but it seems like they could make a nice business of selling "realtime crowd-sourced intelligence!" to enterprises.
I use Hiya on my iPhone to tag fraud and spam calls. (Not affiliated in any way; I just like the app.) It regularly pushes updated lists of current bad callers to my phone, and iOS 10's CallKit API queries it every time I get a phone call. I can decide whether I want to accept or automatically reject labeled callers. Numbers in my phonebook are automatically whitelisted by the OS.
That's pretty much the perfect solution in my book. Hiya sends me the lists but it doesn't have any information about what the OS does with those lists. It can't tell who's calling me, for instance. It's entirely my decision how to handle callers.
People not thinking about the stupid shit they're saying is why we're discussing this article in the first place. That's how we got into this mess.
Very true. Now pay your legal team $1400 an hour to supervise the audit to show you've never done that.
My early 2011 15" MBP runs Sierra like a champ.
Give a shot. Worst case: you decide it sucks and continue looking for a good replacement. I still prefer DTPO, but if you already have the ability to run Note Station it's definitely worth a close look.
I self-host. There are a couple of good options that way:
Of those two, I prefer DTPO as it's more mature and already does everything imaginable. Note Station is pretty good today, too, and has a lot of promise. Either one will move your data to being 100% in your own control and I like that a lot.
So am I. Say what you will about Apple, but 1) they don't have a monopoly in any of their product spaces and 2) they host their competitors' apps on the same terms as everyone else's. People would be outraged if they were doing something half as shady.
I wouldn't. Cautious, sure! But there are plenty of boring, reputable vendors for that stuff. I'd bet a Dell or IBM charger would be built like a brick, as an example. I'd feel OK with any reputable brand.
Amazon won't release an app for Apple TV (mumbling some crap about "stream from your phone with AirPlay!"), so it's a nonstarter. I don't want to tie up my phone while watching shows on a big screen. Oh, they'll go on about "we're protesting Apple's pricing!" or such, but the app is already on iPhones and iPads!
The real story is that they don't want to undercut their own TV hardware. They dropped Apple TV from sales, and searching for Apple TV on Amazon gives their own crap streamer as the top suggestion. No, Amazon, I don't want your hardware. I already have my own. If I have to buy into your ecosystem to watch Prime Video, I'll stick to Netflix.
You misunderstand: the new MacBook Pros charge via USB-C and not the proprietary magsafe connector. If the dog eats your cord, you can buy a new standard USB-C cable without running to apple, and the chargers themselves are stardardized so you can buy a non-Apple one of those, too.
Sure, buy quality! But you're no longer constrained to getting it from a single vendor.
A new one is $70. That's nuts. Are there any quality third-party vendors? I'm guessing patents on the mag-safe connector means NO.
A month ago:
Apple's getting rid of MagSafe and moving to industry standard USB-C charging? Those greedy bastards!
OK, you in particular might not have been saying it, but the Internet as a whole was. I for one am thrilled that they're moving to a charging system based on parts I can order from Monoprice.
They do. Or more to the point, they provide an API so that third party apps can, and in a privacy-preserving manner:
With that design, the apps don't get access to your callers so they can't spy on you. It's the best kind of trust model: the one where you don't have to trust them. I like the Hiya app but there are others.
Uh, no. It's not a standards mark but an indicator of origin. I may think Foo brand shoes suck, but if I want genuine Foo for whatever reason, I want to know I'm buying genuine Foo. Maybe their quality sucks but they're made in a well-respected factory in Colorado, they treat their employees well, and they only emit pure oxygen and distilled water from their factories. The Chinese knockoffs might be better, but I want the Colorado-made product. The whole point of trademarks is that only Foo can claim to make Foo shoes.
From the article:
Customers can get an Apple TV included with 3 months pre-paid of any DIRECTV NOW package.
The base 32GB Apple TV is currently $149. Looking at it another way, AT&T will sell you an Apple TV at a $44 discount and throw in three free months of live TV programming. That's actually a sweet deal.
PS: This is the first and probably only time you'll hear me describe anything from AT&T as being a decent value.
PPS: In before "apple tv sucks fanboyz lol etc". I have an Apple TV and I like it. You may prefer something else. Yay, here's your cookie. But if you were thinking about buying an Apple TV for Christmas, here's a $44 coupon off.
That's great news! Trademarks are the one part of IP I can happily support. If I want to buy Foo brand shoes, and I see a shoebox marked with Foo's logo, I want to be reasonably sure that it actually contains Foo-approved shoes. Sure, people try to abuse trademarks ("you're not allowed to use our name in a news article criticizing us!" and other jackassery), but the actual concept of trademarks is great. This is the kind of IP law enforcement I actually want to see.
all of which are older than 6 years old, and running OS's that are more than 6 years old
hey it's me ur, um, cto. would you please open that email i just sent you so we can, uh, apply some server patches for you? kthx
They fixed mine for free last week. If you think yours might need service, this would be an excellent time to get that done.
or trying to figure out how to block the driver and let the precious snowflakes in the other seats continue to feed their cellular addictions.
Oh, get over yourself. I ride a bus to work every day. I don't think it's special-snowflakeism to want to read the news while we're trudging along for half an hour. And before your start in with neo-Luddite "ever heard of a book", have you ever tried reading long-form text on public transit? This situation is practically what Twitter and News.app was invented for.
The President can pardon whomever he wishes. Most recently, Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon before charges were even brought. There's plenty of writing on the subject and it's a rather cut-and-dry issue.
You'd think that someone who went to three major dental schools would know better.
Did the first two not take?