It is against the law pretty much everywhere. However that law is enforced pretty much nowhere. It is just simply too difficult to enforce it, as a police officer has to catch the person in the act to even write a ticket. And then the ticket is so laughably small in terms of the monetary penalty as to be pointless to even write.
You could say the same of the seatbelt law in the UK. And yet seat-belts went from being only used by a minority to being used by the vast majority as a result of the law and associated public information advertising.
Whilst I still see people using had-held mobile phones, I'd say it's reduced a lot since it became explicitly illegal.
Dinner cards are not necessaily cheaper. Fingerprint scanners are not expensive components. And unlike cards, fingerprints are not lost or stolen.
I've literally never known a single person that I was at school with to have ever lost any money the entire time they were there.
Your lack of experience or memory of a category of event doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It does. Ask a teacher.
More to the point, what SCHOOL still even uses money? Aren't these public schools? Weren't meals already paid for?
It's a UK school. There's no reason to assume that things work the same way as where you live. Primary and secondary education is available free for all in the UK. But school meals have always been paid. They are free for kids with parents that are on benefits (welfare), and this is another advantage of a cashless system such as this, that it protects those kids from the stigma which comes from other kids knowing they are on free school meals.
A dinner card isn't going to let you abuse the system by using multiple in the case of someone possibly stealing another persons card.
Sure it could. In most schools there's nothing to stop the kid going out and then joining the queue to go through a second time. So long as they are quiet and well behaved, the staff are unlikely to notice. But in any case a theft would more likely occur as a knock on effect of a kid losing their own card.
Hell, a simple paper dinner ticket can work as well. Someone that has multiple tickets is obviously doing something wrong.
One ticket per day. That's what we had wen I was at school. However with 30 kids, you lose 10-15 minutes per day of morning registration time handing out the tickets. And still have the problem that kids may lose them before lunch time.
It's as simple as launching before there's enough stock for a reasonable launch.
So now you're saying that they SHOULD have held stock back, but didn't. Again, why? Not selling product in order that they don't sell out? What kind of logic is that? Selling product for which there is a demand is not a mistake.
Leaving money on the table for the sale of bragging "sold out" is a stupid and a losing strategy. And not one that Apple would be desperate enough to try - they don't need to as they have the best selling smartphone.
I agree I watched apples event that required their browser and flash which meant the mobile apple users couldn't watch it lol.
No it didn't. It's been many years since Apple's streaming required Flash.
This is what they used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
You could certainly watch it on iOS and OSX.
You couldn't watch it on other OSs because there more than enough people wanting to watch it already that DO have Apple devices. It was overloaded even with just those. It's the world's most popular tech streaming event.
Android NFC is a failure. Apple have waited till they could do it right, with the right security and the right business model to make it attractive to consumers and merchants. Likewise Android Wear is a failure. Apple typically aren't the first with a technology - they are the first to do a technology in a compelling way.
To be innovative you must actually come out with something new.
You're confusing innovation with invention. Invention requires something new. Innovation is a process of improvement on existing products and services.
You're right as far as you go. But it's more complicated than that, and that's the reason why you are misunderstanding the parent's point. The iPhone 6 Plus uses @3x images, and then it down samples the resulting screen by a factor of 1.15! Yes really. So developers DO have some extra work to do in providing those assets at yet another size. And as the screen density of the 6 Plus is higher than both the 5 and the 6, if they follow your plan, every UI element will be significantly smaller, which is not usually what you want. And if they don't update the app at all, the exact same image as appears on the 4 inch screen will appear on the 5.5 inch screen, but magnified. Again not what you generally want.
You see it is more complex than you assume.
See:
http://www.paintcodeapp.com/ne...
It's like they somehow decided android's fragmentation was a competitive advantage! Oh, and now you provide 3x images and they get downsampled. It will not look as good. Full stop.
You don't have to provide integer multiple magnifications for images on printers for them to look good. Enough resolution means you can forget about the actual pixels. The point is that once you get sufficiently beyond the point at which the eye can't distinguish pixels, it doesn't matter. If the 5.5 inch model was any more blurry than the 4.7 inch model you can be sure the journalists looking at them in the hands on room at the launch event would have noticed.
It's like they somehow decided android's fragmentation was a competitive advantage!
Clearly it's not. Things would be easier for developers is they stuck to integer multiples of the original iPhone screen size. BUT Apple was losing some sales to Android for the reason of a lack of larger screens, and this is what they had to do to get those larger screens with todays cutting edge screen technology. You say people aren't interested, and yet the signs are that presales of these new phones are even more on fire than previous new iPhone releases.
So long as they don't abandon the 4 inch format, there's no problem. They didn't release a 4 incher this year, but that doesn't mean they've abandoned the format. Both the 5C and 5S are still on sale, and I have no doubt there will be a replacement 4 incher next year.
You do know that the Apple app store was the original home of the fart app...
Nonsense. Fart apps were available on mobile phones before the iPhone was even on the market.
http://www.noeman.org/gsm/s60-...
Fart apps are simply an obvious and easy to implement gag for smartphones, ALL smartphones. The fart apps on iPhone meme is just because Android fans don't have any real argument against the superior quality of the apps on the Apple App Store.
So Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo and Steven Sande at TUAW have different opinions. Amazing.
Mean while the fact that one handed use is problematic is revealed by Android's hacky one-handed mode, that converts a big phone UI back down to a small one.
http://gizmodo.com/the-galaxy-...
Apple have just offered 2 additional size choices for iPhone customers. 4 inch still forms part of the line up. There's not a new 4 incher this year, but there will probably will be next year. After all some people are prepared to give up one handed operation in favour of larger screens. But some people aren't.
I wonder how low of a rate Apple had to offer all of these merchants to make it worth their while.
The problem with those other companies that you mention is that they try to make a business model out of it. Apple isn't. They aren't "offering a rate" because they are not taking any kind of cut. The transaction is between the customer, the merchant and the bank or card provider. Apple doesn't even store the value of the transactions so it couldn't charge if it wanted to. Apple just provide a facility for communicating one-off authorisation codes between the merchant and the bank.
Apple's business model has always been selling the devices. And that, alongside their security improvements are reasons that this payment method is much more likely to catch on than the ones you mentioned.
Nope I can't agree, in the context of speaking to a man, saying grow some cajones is not in anyway equating anatomy to bravery. Realy it's telling a man to stop behaving like a little boy.
Except that little boys also have cojones. And the other big clue that you're missing is that the alternative way of phrasing "grow some conjones" is "don't be a pussy". There's no doubt whatsoever that this is about gender stereotypes.
You're in denial.
And if there were a million such accidents a year, that would mean that you have maybe a 1% chance of being in such an accident annually. And there aren't a million such accidents a year.
Where is your assumption of 100 million people texting whilst driving at significant speed coming from?
People tend to overestimate the number of people that are the same as them. I hope this isn't the case here.
Do you call people who call others "dick" misandrists.
If someone else did, and it was denied, I'd be happy to explain that it is.
No you don't.
Don't answer for me.
This also applies to the usage of "grow some cojones."
The issue with "grow some cojones", is the implicit statement that only men can be brave. Using as it does possession of male anatomy as a qualification for bravery. It's always misogyny. For the same reason so is "man up" that you seem to think is OK.
You need to reassess your biases. It can be difficult as they've been with you from childhood.
The word "cunting" and the phrase "grow some cojones". If you can't work out why, that's your issue, not the OP.
And preferring up mods doesn't mean that you shouldn't downmod as appropriate.
Please stop perpetuating the myth that texting while at a stop light is completely safe and not the same as while you are driving.
I wasn't. You should never text whilst driving. That's why I said "Hopefully most people are sensible enough not to text whilst driving."
However the results of doing so will obviously be worse if you are at 70mph than at 0mph.
You should never shoot someone innocent. However the damage done if you did would be worse with a Magnum than a air pistol.
A personal watch is what it's always has been. A mark of status.
Sounds like you weren't around before the mobile phone. In those days most people wore a watch because it was the only way of knowing what time it was. The watch market might have shrunk down to be mostly the status object now, but it wasn't like that until about 10-20 years ago.
I believe the pitch goes something like this: In a world populated by very lazy and impatient people, the Apple watch allows you to get much of the functionality of your phone without pulling your phone out of your pocket. It also has an Apple logo on it.
Right. So what was the market the various Android Wear smart watches were going for?
Just because Android Wear needs a smartphone all the time doesn't mean Apple Watch does. Android Wear doesn't have wifi, so it can only access the net via a bluetooth pairing with a smartphone. The Apple Watch does have wifi.
It does need an iPhone for GPS. Maybe some other stuff. But it's core functionalities work without a smartphone.
As to your swimming objection, most people don't go swimming often, and most watches are only water resistant anyway, same as the Apple Watch - people tend to take them off when changing into their swimming costumes. So it's not much of a problem for most people.
Apple doesn't play the feature checklist game. They sell good industrial design and usability. And they only implement features when they know how to do it well, and the technology is ready. e.g. They could have stuck NFC in years ago, as Android did. But they waited and did it better - the year after they implemented TouchID to verify the user.
Apple wasn't the first with an MP3 player either. But they were the first that was so good everyone wanted it. Apple doesn't tend oto race to be first with a feature. They wait till it can be done well.
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It is against the law pretty much everywhere. However that law is enforced pretty much nowhere. It is just simply too difficult to enforce it, as a police officer has to catch the person in the act to even write a ticket. And then the ticket is so laughably small in terms of the monetary penalty as to be pointless to even write.
You could say the same of the seatbelt law in the UK. And yet seat-belts went from being only used by a minority to being used by the vast majority as a result of the law and associated public information advertising. Whilst I still see people using had-held mobile phones, I'd say it's reduced a lot since it became explicitly illegal.
There are supervising staff. One kid paying for another is probably not allowed.
Or, you know, give them DINNER CARDS. So hard.
Dinner cards are not necessaily cheaper. Fingerprint scanners are not expensive components. And unlike cards, fingerprints are not lost or stolen.
I've literally never known a single person that I was at school with to have ever lost any money the entire time they were there.
Your lack of experience or memory of a category of event doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It does. Ask a teacher.
More to the point, what SCHOOL still even uses money? Aren't these public schools? Weren't meals already paid for?
It's a UK school. There's no reason to assume that things work the same way as where you live. Primary and secondary education is available free for all in the UK. But school meals have always been paid. They are free for kids with parents that are on benefits (welfare), and this is another advantage of a cashless system such as this, that it protects those kids from the stigma which comes from other kids knowing they are on free school meals.
A dinner card isn't going to let you abuse the system by using multiple in the case of someone possibly stealing another persons card.
Sure it could. In most schools there's nothing to stop the kid going out and then joining the queue to go through a second time. So long as they are quiet and well behaved, the staff are unlikely to notice. But in any case a theft would more likely occur as a knock on effect of a kid losing their own card.
Hell, a simple paper dinner ticket can work as well. Someone that has multiple tickets is obviously doing something wrong.
One ticket per day. That's what we had wen I was at school. However with 30 kids, you lose 10-15 minutes per day of morning registration time handing out the tickets. And still have the problem that kids may lose them before lunch time.
I think it is the even number rush.
There is no such 2 year cycle on sales. http://www.statista.com/statis...
Your doubts have no substance.
Whereas you doubt does?
It's as simple as launching before there's enough stock for a reasonable launch.
So now you're saying that they SHOULD have held stock back, but didn't. Again, why? Not selling product in order that they don't sell out? What kind of logic is that? Selling product for which there is a demand is not a mistake.
Leaving money on the table for the sale of bragging "sold out" is a stupid and a losing strategy. And not one that Apple would be desperate enough to try - they don't need to as they have the best selling smartphone.
I agree I watched apples event that required their browser and flash which meant the mobile apple users couldn't watch it lol.
No it didn't. It's been many years since Apple's streaming required Flash. This is what they used. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... You could certainly watch it on iOS and OSX. You couldn't watch it on other OSs because there more than enough people wanting to watch it already that DO have Apple devices. It was overloaded even with just those. It's the world's most popular tech streaming event. Android NFC is a failure. Apple have waited till they could do it right, with the right security and the right business model to make it attractive to consumers and merchants. Likewise Android Wear is a failure. Apple typically aren't the first with a technology - they are the first to do a technology in a compelling way.
To be innovative you must actually come out with something new.
You're confusing innovation with invention. Invention requires something new. Innovation is a process of improvement on existing products and services.
You're right as far as you go. But it's more complicated than that, and that's the reason why you are misunderstanding the parent's point. The iPhone 6 Plus uses @3x images, and then it down samples the resulting screen by a factor of 1.15! Yes really. So developers DO have some extra work to do in providing those assets at yet another size. And as the screen density of the 6 Plus is higher than both the 5 and the 6, if they follow your plan, every UI element will be significantly smaller, which is not usually what you want. And if they don't update the app at all, the exact same image as appears on the 4 inch screen will appear on the 5.5 inch screen, but magnified. Again not what you generally want. You see it is more complex than you assume. See: http://www.paintcodeapp.com/ne...
It's like they somehow decided android's fragmentation was a competitive advantage! Oh, and now you provide 3x images and they get downsampled. It will not look as good. Full stop.
You don't have to provide integer multiple magnifications for images on printers for them to look good. Enough resolution means you can forget about the actual pixels. The point is that once you get sufficiently beyond the point at which the eye can't distinguish pixels, it doesn't matter. If the 5.5 inch model was any more blurry than the 4.7 inch model you can be sure the journalists looking at them in the hands on room at the launch event would have noticed.
It's like they somehow decided android's fragmentation was a competitive advantage!
Clearly it's not. Things would be easier for developers is they stuck to integer multiples of the original iPhone screen size. BUT Apple was losing some sales to Android for the reason of a lack of larger screens, and this is what they had to do to get those larger screens with todays cutting edge screen technology. You say people aren't interested, and yet the signs are that presales of these new phones are even more on fire than previous new iPhone releases. So long as they don't abandon the 4 inch format, there's no problem. They didn't release a 4 incher this year, but that doesn't mean they've abandoned the format. Both the 5C and 5S are still on sale, and I have no doubt there will be a replacement 4 incher next year.
You do know that the Apple app store was the original home of the fart app...
Nonsense. Fart apps were available on mobile phones before the iPhone was even on the market. http://www.noeman.org/gsm/s60-... Fart apps are simply an obvious and easy to implement gag for smartphones, ALL smartphones. The fart apps on iPhone meme is just because Android fans don't have any real argument against the superior quality of the apps on the Apple App Store.
So Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo and Steven Sande at TUAW have different opinions. Amazing. Mean while the fact that one handed use is problematic is revealed by Android's hacky one-handed mode, that converts a big phone UI back down to a small one. http://gizmodo.com/the-galaxy-... Apple have just offered 2 additional size choices for iPhone customers. 4 inch still forms part of the line up. There's not a new 4 incher this year, but there will probably will be next year. After all some people are prepared to give up one handed operation in favour of larger screens. But some people aren't.
I wonder how low of a rate Apple had to offer all of these merchants to make it worth their while.
The problem with those other companies that you mention is that they try to make a business model out of it. Apple isn't. They aren't "offering a rate" because they are not taking any kind of cut. The transaction is between the customer, the merchant and the bank or card provider. Apple doesn't even store the value of the transactions so it couldn't charge if it wanted to. Apple just provide a facility for communicating one-off authorisation codes between the merchant and the bank. Apple's business model has always been selling the devices. And that, alongside their security improvements are reasons that this payment method is much more likely to catch on than the ones you mentioned.
Nope I can't agree, in the context of speaking to a man, saying grow some cajones is not in anyway equating anatomy to bravery. Realy it's telling a man to stop behaving like a little boy.
Except that little boys also have cojones. And the other big clue that you're missing is that the alternative way of phrasing "grow some conjones" is "don't be a pussy". There's no doubt whatsoever that this is about gender stereotypes. You're in denial.
And if there were a million such accidents a year, that would mean that you have maybe a 1% chance of being in such an accident annually. And there aren't a million such accidents a year.
Where is your assumption of 100 million people texting whilst driving at significant speed coming from? People tend to overestimate the number of people that are the same as them. I hope this isn't the case here.
Replace "Google Glass" with "Smartphone in a shirt pocket" and it would seem totally ridiculous.
Because it's not the same thing.
Do you call people who call others "dick" misandrists.
If someone else did, and it was denied, I'd be happy to explain that it is.
No you don't.
Don't answer for me.
This also applies to the usage of "grow some cojones."
The issue with "grow some cojones", is the implicit statement that only men can be brave. Using as it does possession of male anatomy as a qualification for bravery. It's always misogyny. For the same reason so is "man up" that you seem to think is OK. You need to reassess your biases. It can be difficult as they've been with you from childhood.
The second trick would be to get the battery life of the watch high enough with the added power requirements.
It wouldn't just be a trick, it'd be a miracle at this stage of the technology. The Apple Watch already looks a bit too chunky to be truly elegant.
What misogyny was present?
The word "cunting" and the phrase "grow some cojones". If you can't work out why, that's your issue, not the OP. And preferring up mods doesn't mean that you shouldn't downmod as appropriate.
Yeah a whole 2 minutes without a comment. Clearly no one is interested.
Please stop perpetuating the myth that texting while at a stop light is completely safe and not the same as while you are driving.
I wasn't. You should never text whilst driving. That's why I said "Hopefully most people are sensible enough not to text whilst driving." However the results of doing so will obviously be worse if you are at 70mph than at 0mph. You should never shoot someone innocent. However the damage done if you did would be worse with a Magnum than a air pistol.
A personal watch is what it's always has been. A mark of status.
Sounds like you weren't around before the mobile phone. In those days most people wore a watch because it was the only way of knowing what time it was. The watch market might have shrunk down to be mostly the status object now, but it wasn't like that until about 10-20 years ago.
I believe the pitch goes something like this: In a world populated by very lazy and impatient people, the Apple watch allows you to get much of the functionality of your phone without pulling your phone out of your pocket. It also has an Apple logo on it.
Right. So what was the market the various Android Wear smart watches were going for?
Just because Android Wear needs a smartphone all the time doesn't mean Apple Watch does. Android Wear doesn't have wifi, so it can only access the net via a bluetooth pairing with a smartphone. The Apple Watch does have wifi. It does need an iPhone for GPS. Maybe some other stuff. But it's core functionalities work without a smartphone. As to your swimming objection, most people don't go swimming often, and most watches are only water resistant anyway, same as the Apple Watch - people tend to take them off when changing into their swimming costumes. So it's not much of a problem for most people.
If you're just going by features
Apple doesn't play the feature checklist game. They sell good industrial design and usability. And they only implement features when they know how to do it well, and the technology is ready. e.g. They could have stuck NFC in years ago, as Android did. But they waited and did it better - the year after they implemented TouchID to verify the user.
Apple wasn't the first with an MP3 player either. But they were the first that was so good everyone wanted it. Apple doesn't tend oto race to be first with a feature. They wait till it can be done well.