I've had one since launch, it's a nice machine, performance is pretty good. Screen is nice. Issues on it really are odd keyboard placement. I commonly hit Q instead of Tab or Delete instead of Backspace (or vice versa).
They cheaped out on the power management too so it is almost always running on battery power. That means that when plugged in and fully charged it will switch between Battery & Mains power profiles in the OS which is annoying as I tend to have no power management when on mains and very aggressive power mgmt when on battery. I'm not really sure what this is doing the battery either, battery life is still fine but the cycle count is showing well into the hundreds just from leaving it plugged in and asleep. I think the way it manages charging has a negative impact on the life but I can't see it being as bad as the cycle count reports. If you want to use USB C to a video out then you need to change a BIOS setting which has some side effect (essentially increases power consumption during sleep).
The GPD Win had the same charging issues, the GPD Win 2 has been announced with this being one of the fixed issues so one would hope that any GPD Pocket 2 will have the same fix.
Don't get me wrong, it's a lovely looking machine and aside from the above, it works beautifully in Linux (Mint) and Win 10, performance is incredible for something you can stick in your pocket. If your use case is that you will generally be on battery power anyway then most of this shouldn't be a problem for you!
No, that's not the point. Can you cite Apple predicting 50M sales anywhere? The article basically says some analyst guessed some figures at one point and has now changed their mind. You won't find out how good Apple's predictions were until you see if they met their forecast next quarter. They tend to be much better at forecasting than the analysts...
For the translation services, you have to use the Google BT headphones, there are no other compatible options. The reasons they give for making it specific to their headset are all specific to BT headphones. If they had support for a 3.5mm TRRS plug then they would have compatibility with a huge range of other options.
All good reasons on that link... until you remember that none of those reasons would apply if they had kept a 3.5mm headphone socket for wired headphones.
There have been recent reports showing the new MacBook Pro has a proprietary interface for extracting data from the SSD and Apple have confirmed it is for use for data recovery by Apple employees.
No. It has two ports that accept a USB C style plug, both of those ports also support Thunderbolt 3. However in the use case, you may well find that the monitor has a hub AND provides power back to the Mac too, such as the LG one they showed in the announcement.
There have definitely been a number of problems that have led to recalls over the years and I'd say Apple have been far too slow to react to them generally,
I'd imagine that is as likely to be a result of the beaurocracy preventing those issues being correlated and detected as it is to be some kind of top level conspiracy.
However I think most of them have been GPU issues, so from the same parts that the rest of the market has to use so I'm not sure how you avoid them by going elsewhere.
Do you think Spotify are making a fuss because they are concerned about YOU are not getting sufficient value!?
I think the value is in the platform with a thriving ecosystem, I can't really tell you which parts of that personally derive value from, I would hope you've been able to work that out yourself when you chose what platform to use. If you are only looking at this isolated marginal cost and benefit then it's difficult to see where the value comes from. But if you look at the bigger picture you might realise that revenue streams like this help to subsidise other activities that lots of people benefit from, one example being the hosting of free applications along with providing the tools and documentation to the authors of those applications.
Yes you can get your Spotify subscription directly from Spotify without zero input from Apple, nothing here changes any of that, you can always just go to their site and sign up. I'm happy to argue the toss about wether the cut that Apple takes is too much or not, but if you think that there is zero value (and zero cost) involved in Apple giving Spotify access to their store, their customer base, providing developer tools and support then there isn't really much point in having the discussion. From memory, for the early years Apple said this was not a significant revenue stream for them and they were happy that it just broke even. More recently though it seems that the revenue has increased significantly so I would presume it now contributes to a reasonable profit stream and that is part of the reason for Apple starting to make some (admittedly small) changes to reducing their cut.
And no, I don't work in sales at all, never have and hopefully never will.
In the words of most Slashdot commenters - Fuck beta! You can't suggest it's OK to say this is a non-production test product only released to the owner after they consent, when it has virtually no chance of being used anywhere else except on the 'production' road system surrounded by non-consenting road users.
This is an old comment but it suggests you are wrong:
"a few readers have asked whether I personally own Apple stock. Good question. I do not."
http://daringfireball.net/link...
It's 30%, dropping to 15% after the 1st year. The value they add is making the platform, hosting the store, the content, the billing, app screening and all the other admin. We can argue all day about how reasonable that slice is but it isn't for zero.
Nope, I don't understand. Specifically I don't really understand what the dispute is actually about or what has changed. Apple have always said if you offer subscription in app then you use Apple's purchasing systems and "Apps may not include buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms other than IAP".
TFA says they were running 'promotions' to get people to sign up by other means so that's not allowed and never has been, then says "Spotify stopped advertising the promotion. But it also turned off its App Store billing option, which has led to the current dispute.", is the claim that they are trying to publish an app that doesn't offer in app purchases and doesn't direct people elsewhere and Apple are rejecting it? That seems unlikely and doesn't fit in with the quoted response from Apple. The summary here doesn't even make any attempt to present any facts about the dispute.
This crappy hate piece seems to imply Apple are moving the goalposts and picking on Spotify because they compete in the same space. Whereas it seems like the truth is that Spotify decided to break the rules that have been in place for about 5 years - 3 years before they purchased the Beats music service that became Apple Music.
You can like or dislike the walled garden approach where Apple sets the rules for its.store. Feel free for hate them for the way they indiscriminately apply commission to all in-app purchases and make it difficult for you to get the revenue by other means. But lets not pretend they are picking on Spotify specifically or that anything has changed, except that Spotify decided it no longer wanted to play by the same rules it signed up to several years ago.
Yep, it's only the immigrants that transmit malaria as we all know. Some of those pro-science arseholes think it's something to do with mosquitos but as we know, they pay strict adherence to border controls so that is clearly bullshit.
You seem to be saying that you think that the people saying that Apple doesn't make computers that meet their needs are the same people that don't actually own Apple computers. Surely that makes perfect sense?
Assuming you are in the USA, the statistics suggest that the killers of white people are white 84% of the time.
But to answer your original question maybe they didn't point out that it was Muslims because it's not really helpful to draw the link because people like you can not understand that "All muslim terrorists are muslim" is not equivalent to "All 1.6billion muslims are terrorists".
Given that Apple have never remotely removed / disabled apps from / on users devices and they take a hard line on apps that request excessive permissions in the first place, I think your specific example here is pretty poor.
I think you totally failed to comprehend the article to which you refer. The site and app has existed for ages without any issues from Apple. The issue was that they used their developer account to enter a lottery to get a pre-release developer AppleTV so they could begin coding apps (the app now removed even!) for that as yet-unreleased platform. In entering the lottery they agreed to not disclose any details about the software or hardware they would get. They violated that agreement and their account was closed, which means their app is not currently available. Not the same, at all.
This was not a review unit. Apple ran a lottery for early access to developer kits for TvOS, which includes the new Apple TV hardware. It's a lottery so you 'win' it and it's yours, to keep, forever. You are charged $1 as a token amount to verify your identity, presumably to enforce only one kit per entrant. In doing so you are asked to agree to the terms, which includes not discussing it until the product is publicly available.
No, it's no secret that there is an NDA, if you have a valid Apple ID (may need to be a dev ID, mine works but I don't have any pay for any additional access) then you are presented with it as soon as you go to this URL: https://developer.apple.com/tv... . I think the URL is pretty descriptive about what it relates to.
The summary is poorly phrased. The change is that there is now hardware support for 'Hey Siri' that means it uses less power. So instead of only being available only when you are plugged into the mains, it's also available on battery.
I think you've phrased your argument in terms that are going to get people's backs up. So let me try in slightly different terms, because I think you do have a valid point. In many forms of education, people with similar levels of ability are put together, because teaching a mixed ability group can be difficult, certainly with live teaching. If you have 20 people who are learning an advanced topic, if they all have passed a similar class last year and there is one person who has no experience of the topic, then that person asking questions is going to slow down the learning and hold people back. That argument also holds if 20 are native English speakers and one is not, you don't want the whole class being held back by the person who is struggling with the language. I think there is a valid argument to have different tracks tailored to different abilities and/or to look for the forums to maybe be separated by skill sets, I'm not saying it's trivial, but it should be considered. Really though the larger issue is that the forums on these sites are just awful anyway, generally reams and reams of unstructured junk, no way of even marking stuff you've read so you don't see it again nevermind any useful search or filtering tools.
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They cheaped out on the power management too so it is almost always running on battery power. That means that when plugged in and fully charged it will switch between Battery & Mains power profiles in the OS which is annoying as I tend to have no power management when on mains and very aggressive power mgmt when on battery. I'm not really sure what this is doing the battery either, battery life is still fine but the cycle count is showing well into the hundreds just from leaving it plugged in and asleep. I think the way it manages charging has a negative impact on the life but I can't see it being as bad as the cycle count reports. If you want to use USB C to a video out then you need to change a BIOS setting which has some side effect (essentially increases power consumption during sleep).
The GPD Win had the same charging issues, the GPD Win 2 has been announced with this being one of the fixed issues so one would hope that any GPD Pocket 2 will have the same fix. Don't get me wrong, it's a lovely looking machine and aside from the above, it works beautifully in Linux (Mint) and Win 10, performance is incredible for something you can stick in your pocket. If your use case is that you will generally be on battery power anyway then most of this shouldn't be a problem for you!
No, that's not the point. Can you cite Apple predicting 50M sales anywhere? The article basically says some analyst guessed some figures at one point and has now changed their mind. You won't find out how good Apple's predictions were until you see if they met their forecast next quarter. They tend to be much better at forecasting than the analysts...
For the translation services, you have to use the Google BT headphones, there are no other compatible options. The reasons they give for making it specific to their headset are all specific to BT headphones. If they had support for a 3.5mm TRRS plug then they would have compatibility with a huge range of other options.
All good reasons on that link... until you remember that none of those reasons would apply if they had kept a 3.5mm headphone socket for wired headphones.
There have been recent reports showing the new MacBook Pro has a proprietary interface for extracting data from the SSD and Apple have confirmed it is for use for data recovery by Apple employees.
No. It has two ports that accept a USB C style plug, both of those ports also support Thunderbolt 3. However in the use case, you may well find that the monitor has a hub AND provides power back to the Mac too, such as the LG one they showed in the announcement.
"Never DDoS a man who can send a billion Pokemon hunters to your house at the click of a button" - William J. Greener, Jr. 1925
There have definitely been a number of problems that have led to recalls over the years and I'd say Apple have been far too slow to react to them generally, I'd imagine that is as likely to be a result of the beaurocracy preventing those issues being correlated and detected as it is to be some kind of top level conspiracy. However I think most of them have been GPU issues, so from the same parts that the rest of the market has to use so I'm not sure how you avoid them by going elsewhere.
I think the value is in the platform with a thriving ecosystem, I can't really tell you which parts of that personally derive value from, I would hope you've been able to work that out yourself when you chose what platform to use. If you are only looking at this isolated marginal cost and benefit then it's difficult to see where the value comes from. But if you look at the bigger picture you might realise that revenue streams like this help to subsidise other activities that lots of people benefit from, one example being the hosting of free applications along with providing the tools and documentation to the authors of those applications.
Yes you can get your Spotify subscription directly from Spotify without zero input from Apple, nothing here changes any of that, you can always just go to their site and sign up. I'm happy to argue the toss about wether the cut that Apple takes is too much or not, but if you think that there is zero value (and zero cost) involved in Apple giving Spotify access to their store, their customer base, providing developer tools and support then there isn't really much point in having the discussion. From memory, for the early years Apple said this was not a significant revenue stream for them and they were happy that it just broke even. More recently though it seems that the revenue has increased significantly so I would presume it now contributes to a reasonable profit stream and that is part of the reason for Apple starting to make some (admittedly small) changes to reducing their cut.
And no, I don't work in sales at all, never have and hopefully never will.
In the words of most Slashdot commenters - Fuck beta! You can't suggest it's OK to say this is a non-production test product only released to the owner after they consent, when it has virtually no chance of being used anywhere else except on the 'production' road system surrounded by non-consenting road users.
This is an old comment but it suggests you are wrong: "a few readers have asked whether I personally own Apple stock. Good question. I do not." http://daringfireball.net/link...
It's 30%, dropping to 15% after the 1st year. The value they add is making the platform, hosting the store, the content, the billing, app screening and all the other admin. We can argue all day about how reasonable that slice is but it isn't for zero.
TFA says they were running 'promotions' to get people to sign up by other means so that's not allowed and never has been, then says "Spotify stopped advertising the promotion. But it also turned off its App Store billing option, which has led to the current dispute.", is the claim that they are trying to publish an app that doesn't offer in app purchases and doesn't direct people elsewhere and Apple are rejecting it? That seems unlikely and doesn't fit in with the quoted response from Apple. The summary here doesn't even make any attempt to present any facts about the dispute.
This crappy hate piece seems to imply Apple are moving the goalposts and picking on Spotify because they compete in the same space. Whereas it seems like the truth is that Spotify decided to break the rules that have been in place for about 5 years - 3 years before they purchased the Beats music service that became Apple Music.
You can like or dislike the walled garden approach where Apple sets the rules for its.store. Feel free for hate them for the way they indiscriminately apply commission to all in-app purchases and make it difficult for you to get the revenue by other means. But lets not pretend they are picking on Spotify specifically or that anything has changed, except that Spotify decided it no longer wanted to play by the same rules it signed up to several years ago.
Yep, it's only the immigrants that transmit malaria as we all know. Some of those pro-science arseholes think it's something to do with mosquitos but as we know, they pay strict adherence to border controls so that is clearly bullshit.
You seem to be saying that you think that the people saying that Apple doesn't make computers that meet their needs are the same people that don't actually own Apple computers. Surely that makes perfect sense?
I'm surprised nobody int eh pro gun lobby has jumped in to claim the body count would have been much lower in the war if only there were more guns...
Assuming you are in the USA, the statistics suggest that the killers of white people are white 84% of the time. But to answer your original question maybe they didn't point out that it was Muslims because it's not really helpful to draw the link because people like you can not understand that "All muslim terrorists are muslim" is not equivalent to "All 1.6billion muslims are terrorists".
Given that Apple have never remotely removed / disabled apps from / on users devices and they take a hard line on apps that request excessive permissions in the first place, I think your specific example here is pretty poor.
I think you totally failed to comprehend the article to which you refer. The site and app has existed for ages without any issues from Apple. The issue was that they used their developer account to enter a lottery to get a pre-release developer AppleTV so they could begin coding apps (the app now removed even!) for that as yet-unreleased platform. In entering the lottery they agreed to not disclose any details about the software or hardware they would get. They violated that agreement and their account was closed, which means their app is not currently available. Not the same, at all.
And if you win pre-release hardware in a lottery after agreeing to a NDA, what then?
This was not a review unit. Apple ran a lottery for early access to developer kits for TvOS, which includes the new Apple TV hardware. It's a lottery so you 'win' it and it's yours, to keep, forever. You are charged $1 as a token amount to verify your identity, presumably to enforce only one kit per entrant. In doing so you are asked to agree to the terms, which includes not discussing it until the product is publicly available.
No, it's no secret that there is an NDA, if you have a valid Apple ID (may need to be a dev ID, mine works but I don't have any pay for any additional access) then you are presented with it as soon as you go to this URL: https://developer.apple.com/tv... . I think the URL is pretty descriptive about what it relates to.
The problem here is the middle one is only 32GB.
Except of course, that it isn't 32GB, there isn't a 32GB iPhone 6s at all. There wasn't a 32GB iPhone 6 either.
The summary is poorly phrased. The change is that there is now hardware support for 'Hey Siri' that means it uses less power. So instead of only being available only when you are plugged into the mains, it's also available on battery.
I think you've phrased your argument in terms that are going to get people's backs up. So let me try in slightly different terms, because I think you do have a valid point. In many forms of education, people with similar levels of ability are put together, because teaching a mixed ability group can be difficult, certainly with live teaching. If you have 20 people who are learning an advanced topic, if they all have passed a similar class last year and there is one person who has no experience of the topic, then that person asking questions is going to slow down the learning and hold people back. That argument also holds if 20 are native English speakers and one is not, you don't want the whole class being held back by the person who is struggling with the language. I think there is a valid argument to have different tracks tailored to different abilities and/or to look for the forums to maybe be separated by skill sets, I'm not saying it's trivial, but it should be considered. Really though the larger issue is that the forums on these sites are just awful anyway, generally reams and reams of unstructured junk, no way of even marking stuff you've read so you don't see it again nevermind any useful search or filtering tools.