Apple doesn't produce products that cater to the other 90%, simply based on average selling price. The damage it would do to their brand to produce "cheap" products wouldn't be worth it. They focus on high-end, high margin products. So no, there isn't that much growth left in pure marketshare.
While they have had new products that were huge successes since Jobs (AirPods, Apple Watch seems to be doing exceptionally well) the real growth of Apple's business will be in services. They sell a premium product and they have been increasing their average selling price. There are only so many people they can sell products too, there's a ceiling on that hardware growth. So now they focus on services, which is growing extremely well.
What specific indicators are you seeing that suggests Apple is only moving on inertia? Even when Jobs was alive they were not producing a completely new massively successful product every year. You had basically iPod, iPhone, iPad (which everyone on Slashdot called "a big iPhone). And that was from 2001 to 2010. Since his death in 2011 we've had: AirPods, iPad Pro, Apple Watch, Apple Music, Siri, TouchID/FaceID, etc etc. It seems to me that they are still moving forward pretty well without Jobs.
I agree with you. And what concerns me now is, what social media company in the world would go out of their way to delete fake accounts now? The stock market is telling you exactly what the results will be if you try and clean up your platform.
After careful consideration of various options (which also included doing nothing, or investing heavily in updating the code), we've decided to go ahead and remove builtin feed support from Firefox. This metabug covers both the removal and creating public documentation for users (e.g. on support.mozilla.org ) of alternatives.
I believe they've decided it is easier to remove a feature that is not used heavily versus maintaining it. You could certainly offer to maintain it yourself. Or you could use one of the many, many alternatives for RSS. Personally I don't need my web browser to be my RSS reader. I also like to be able to use RSS from multiple locations, which is why I use TinyTiny-RSS which I access via my web browser using the web interface, an iOS application on my mobile device as well as via the command line using newsbeuter, all of which shares the same TinyTiny-RSS database, so reading it on any device shows it read on any other.
I've also heard good things about FreshRSS and there are lots of other desktop clients.
It might use screen real estate or keyboard shortcuts that cannot be used by other parts of the application. It might also add complexity to the menus that confuses casual users. But mostly, sometimes it is easier to pull out old code than constantly maintain it as the rest of the application evolves, especially when hardly anyone uses it.
Because they are not the same people. These people defending PHP are either PHP programmers or somehow their paychecks are tied to a PHP project of some kind.
While I agree with the premise, the problem was how highly moderated the comments are about php being pretty much ok and blaming poor programmers. I imagine you would have seen the same thing with python, right? Why didn't we see an overwhelming amount of pro-python, highly moderated comments in the other post?
Th post the other day about python brought out all the curmudgeons who damned it as a "toy language" not fit for "anything longer than a page". Meanwhile the comments here are people defending PHP as "the right tool depending on the environment" and "its not the language, there are bad developers using every language."
I'm not sure about Swedish, British or even US law, but my, probably incorrect, layman's understanding is that the statute of limitations doesn't apply if the charges have been filed.
From wikipedia:
Common law legal systems can include a statute specifying the length of time within which a claimant or prosecutor must file a case. In some civil jurisdictions (e.g., California),[1] a case cannot begin after the period specified, and courts have no jurisdiction over cases filed after the statute of limitations has expired. In some other jurisdictions (e.g., New South Wales, Australia), a claim can be filed which may prove to have been brought outside the limitations period, but the court will retain jurisdiction in order to determine that issue, and the onus is on the defendant to plead it as part of their defence, or else the claim will not be statute barred.
Once filed, cases do not need to be resolved within the period specified in the statute of limitations.
With that said, does anyone know what would happen with Assange? It sounds like they just "discontinued the investigation" so were charges filed somewhere, anywhere? And can Assange wait them out at this point?
Your argument now is basically a fallacy of absolutism. Of course it happened, to a very small degree. Because some people, a comparatively very tiny minority compared to today, shared that information. Or you're talking about generalized discrimination, which isn't what this is about. We're talking about targeted harassment.
You're completely missing the point. I never said, or even suggested, people should have to hide who they are to avoid harassment or discrimination. Twenty plus years ago, we hid our real identities for privacy and safety. The idea of a parent letting a child post their real name on the internet in 1996 would have been abhorrent. The side effect of that was that no one COULD discriminate based on age, gender, race, etc., even if they wanted.
When I was a younger, in its early days, the whole reason the internet was great is because there were no gender, skin color or religion, we were all just nerds. No one knew or cared WHAT you were, just WHO you were. I remember when the idea of telling someone your real name on the internet was considered madness. I miss those days. It was just a lot simpler.
Topre. I own quite a few keyboards, including a Unicomp (buckling spring). My favorite is my RealForce 87U with Topre switches. Hands down the best switches, better than Cherry MX (brown, clear, red, black, green, you name it) and better than buckling spring. Most people that still clinging to buckling spring just haven't used a decent modern keyboard with modern mechanical switches. They've just used awful, cheap membrane switches in $10 keyboards.
I highly recommend anyone who's interested in buckling spring to investigate modern mechanical keyboards. I'd start with the reddit r/MechanicalKeyboards.
I agree for video, but for anything else, 120hz is amazing. Maybe an option to automatically display video at 60hz/fps? I think once we spend enough time watching at 120hz we'll get used to it. I think people like us just grew up with 29.97 fps.
In recent years it has become common practice to use GitHub or other code sharing sites to pull in reams of third party dependencies for whatever flavor-of-the-month JavaScript framework that young coders want to use because it's trendy or because they saw an awesome demo at a conference somewhere.
I think it's more pragmatic than that. No one wants to reinvent the wheel, presumably when someone else has done it better. I think that's almost always a good thing, because the standard third party packages for performing most of these things is far safer than what the average developer would write. I think if someone's boss saw them rewriting something that was available as a standard, widely used NPM package they'd get an earful for wasting time.
I'm working on a small flask application right now, and I don't think anyone would argue that it would be smarter for me to write this all from scratch.
Don't forget high refresh rate. Apple is already moving to 120hz, which makes an incredible difference from 60hz. And OLED, which is still only in a very small number of the highest end phones.
It's such a massive, glaring omission it's kind of mind boggling. They have a Google Music Manager client for linux for christ's sake. I realize linux users are a rounding error and writing client software costs a lot of money, but we're talking key users. That's a lot of developers you'd ideally want in your ecosystem. But I'm sure Google knows more about this than I do and they've made the decision to omit linux for a reason.
The company found that the iPhone 6 is 3.3 times more likely to bend than the iPhone 5s, and the iPhone 6 Plus is 7.2 times more likely to bend than the iPhone 5s, according to the documents.
But being more likely to bend isn't necessarily a problem. The Macbook Air is more likely to bend than a Macbook Pro, but that doesn't make it a failure or poor engineering. Materials and engineering choices are made all the time. Every company chooses a particular level their device will bend or break at. In the iPhone 6 they choose to make a larger device, thinner, and were wlling to accept that it was more likely to break, assuming it is still within reasonable tolerances. Which is what Consumer Reports found, that it wasn't more likely to bend than other premium phones from other manufacturers. Just because it now wasn't 5x or 7x better than the competition doesn't make it a poor product.
But for some reason people seem to hold Apple to some higher standard of quality, usually while simultaneously complaining about how poor quality their products are.
Didn't we already put "BendGate" to bed? The iPhone 6 Plus wasn't even the least likely to bend of the tested phones.
I don't remmeber Apple "shouting to the high heavens" about "KeyboardGate" (I assume the current keyboard problem?) or "BatteryGate" (not sure what this is? The performance throttling to stop the phone from shutting off?). AntennaGate I'm assuming is the "you're holding it wrong" and I'm with you on that one, my recollection of that was a huge PR mess for Apple with lots of blaming the user.
It's fascinating to see how Slashdot has changed. Not that I agree with parents post (I don't) but a low 6 digit UID slamming Apple used to get a +5 Insightful or at least a +5 Funny.
So we went from 13% of the population in 1985, when there were 237.9MM people in the US to 8% of the population in 2014 when there are approximately 318.6MM people. So from 31MM people in 1985 to 25.5MM in 2014.
But with that said, we were coming out of a recession. There's probably a considerable lag time. Anecdotally, the economy would need to be pretty healthy for quite a while before I'd risk working for a startup. So I'd be interested to see statistics in the 2020-2025 time frame. I'm not panicing yet.
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Apple doesn't produce products that cater to the other 90%, simply based on average selling price. The damage it would do to their brand to produce "cheap" products wouldn't be worth it. They focus on high-end, high margin products. So no, there isn't that much growth left in pure marketshare.
Sorry if that was unclear, I was just referring to the "inertia" comment, generally. Certainly lots of innovation still seems to be coming from Apple.
While they have had new products that were huge successes since Jobs (AirPods, Apple Watch seems to be doing exceptionally well) the real growth of Apple's business will be in services. They sell a premium product and they have been increasing their average selling price. There are only so many people they can sell products too, there's a ceiling on that hardware growth. So now they focus on services, which is growing extremely well.
What specific indicators are you seeing that suggests Apple is only moving on inertia? Even when Jobs was alive they were not producing a completely new massively successful product every year. You had basically iPod, iPhone, iPad (which everyone on Slashdot called "a big iPhone). And that was from 2001 to 2010. Since his death in 2011 we've had: AirPods, iPad Pro, Apple Watch, Apple Music, Siri, TouchID/FaceID, etc etc. It seems to me that they are still moving forward pretty well without Jobs.
I agree with you. And what concerns me now is, what social media company in the world would go out of their way to delete fake accounts now? The stock market is telling you exactly what the results will be if you try and clean up your platform.
After careful consideration of various options (which also included doing nothing, or investing heavily in updating the code), we've decided to go ahead and remove builtin feed support from Firefox. This metabug covers both the removal and creating public documentation for users (e.g. on support.mozilla.org ) of alternatives.
I believe they've decided it is easier to remove a feature that is not used heavily versus maintaining it. You could certainly offer to maintain it yourself. Or you could use one of the many, many alternatives for RSS. Personally I don't need my web browser to be my RSS reader. I also like to be able to use RSS from multiple locations, which is why I use TinyTiny-RSS which I access via my web browser using the web interface, an iOS application on my mobile device as well as via the command line using newsbeuter, all of which shares the same TinyTiny-RSS database, so reading it on any device shows it read on any other.
I've also heard good things about FreshRSS and there are lots of other desktop clients.
It might use screen real estate or keyboard shortcuts that cannot be used by other parts of the application. It might also add complexity to the menus that confuses casual users. But mostly, sometimes it is easier to pull out old code than constantly maintain it as the rest of the application evolves, especially when hardly anyone uses it.
Because they are not the same people. These people defending PHP are either PHP programmers or somehow their paychecks are tied to a PHP project of some kind.
While I agree with the premise, the problem was how highly moderated the comments are about php being pretty much ok and blaming poor programmers. I imagine you would have seen the same thing with python, right? Why didn't we see an overwhelming amount of pro-python, highly moderated comments in the other post?
Th post the other day about python brought out all the curmudgeons who damned it as a "toy language" not fit for "anything longer than a page". Meanwhile the comments here are people defending PHP as "the right tool depending on the environment" and "its not the language, there are bad developers using every language."
Slashdot really confuses me sometimes.
Common law legal systems can include a statute specifying the length of time within which a claimant or prosecutor must file a case. In some civil jurisdictions (e.g., California),[1] a case cannot begin after the period specified, and courts have no jurisdiction over cases filed after the statute of limitations has expired. In some other jurisdictions (e.g., New South Wales, Australia), a claim can be filed which may prove to have been brought outside the limitations period, but the court will retain jurisdiction in order to determine that issue, and the onus is on the defendant to plead it as part of their defence, or else the claim will not be statute barred.
Once filed, cases do not need to be resolved within the period specified in the statute of limitations.
With that said, does anyone know what would happen with Assange? It sounds like they just "discontinued the investigation" so were charges filed somewhere, anywhere? And can Assange wait them out at this point?
Your argument now is basically a fallacy of absolutism. Of course it happened, to a very small degree. Because some people, a comparatively very tiny minority compared to today, shared that information. Or you're talking about generalized discrimination, which isn't what this is about. We're talking about targeted harassment.
You're completely missing the point. I never said, or even suggested, people should have to hide who they are to avoid harassment or discrimination. Twenty plus years ago, we hid our real identities for privacy and safety. The idea of a parent letting a child post their real name on the internet in 1996 would have been abhorrent. The side effect of that was that no one COULD discriminate based on age, gender, race, etc., even if they wanted.
When I was a younger, in its early days, the whole reason the internet was great is because there were no gender, skin color or religion, we were all just nerds. No one knew or cared WHAT you were, just WHO you were. I remember when the idea of telling someone your real name on the internet was considered madness. I miss those days. It was just a lot simpler.
Nothing beats buckling spring.
Topre. I own quite a few keyboards, including a Unicomp (buckling spring). My favorite is my RealForce 87U with Topre switches. Hands down the best switches, better than Cherry MX (brown, clear, red, black, green, you name it) and better than buckling spring. Most people that still clinging to buckling spring just haven't used a decent modern keyboard with modern mechanical switches. They've just used awful, cheap membrane switches in $10 keyboards.
I highly recommend anyone who's interested in buckling spring to investigate modern mechanical keyboards. I'd start with the reddit r/MechanicalKeyboards.
I agree for video, but for anything else, 120hz is amazing. Maybe an option to automatically display video at 60hz/fps? I think once we spend enough time watching at 120hz we'll get used to it. I think people like us just grew up with 29.97 fps.
In recent years it has become common practice to use GitHub or other code sharing sites to pull in reams of third party dependencies for whatever flavor-of-the-month JavaScript framework that young coders want to use because it's trendy or because they saw an awesome demo at a conference somewhere.
I think it's more pragmatic than that. No one wants to reinvent the wheel, presumably when someone else has done it better. I think that's almost always a good thing, because the standard third party packages for performing most of these things is far safer than what the average developer would write. I think if someone's boss saw them rewriting something that was available as a standard, widely used NPM package they'd get an earful for wasting time.
I'm working on a small flask application right now, and I don't think anyone would argue that it would be smarter for me to write this all from scratch.
Don't forget high refresh rate. Apple is already moving to 120hz, which makes an incredible difference from 60hz. And OLED, which is still only in a very small number of the highest end phones.
You grossly overestimate developers *cough*javascript*cough*
It's such a massive, glaring omission it's kind of mind boggling. They have a Google Music Manager client for linux for christ's sake. I realize linux users are a rounding error and writing client software costs a lot of money, but we're talking key users. That's a lot of developers you'd ideally want in your ecosystem. But I'm sure Google knows more about this than I do and they've made the decision to omit linux for a reason.
Wow, what a crazy story. I'd never heard of Eagle before, thanks for sharing, I just pulled up wth wikipedia page on them.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
"They'll listen to Reason."
Just finished Snow Crash for the first time a couple weeks ago. I can't believe I wanted so long to read it, what a great book.
The company found that the iPhone 6 is 3.3 times more likely to bend than the iPhone 5s, and the iPhone 6 Plus is 7.2 times more likely to bend than the iPhone 5s, according to the documents.
But being more likely to bend isn't necessarily a problem. The Macbook Air is more likely to bend than a Macbook Pro, but that doesn't make it a failure or poor engineering. Materials and engineering choices are made all the time. Every company chooses a particular level their device will bend or break at. In the iPhone 6 they choose to make a larger device, thinner, and were wlling to accept that it was more likely to break, assuming it is still within reasonable tolerances. Which is what Consumer Reports found, that it wasn't more likely to bend than other premium phones from other manufacturers. Just because it now wasn't 5x or 7x better than the competition doesn't make it a poor product.
But for some reason people seem to hold Apple to some higher standard of quality, usually while simultaneously complaining about how poor quality their products are.
Didn't we already put "BendGate" to bed? The iPhone 6 Plus wasn't even the least likely to bend of the tested phones.
I don't remmeber Apple "shouting to the high heavens" about "KeyboardGate" (I assume the current keyboard problem?) or "BatteryGate" (not sure what this is? The performance throttling to stop the phone from shutting off?). AntennaGate I'm assuming is the "you're holding it wrong" and I'm with you on that one, my recollection of that was a huge PR mess for Apple with lots of blaming the user.
It's fascinating to see how Slashdot has changed. Not that I agree with parents post (I don't) but a low 6 digit UID slamming Apple used to get a +5 Insightful or at least a +5 Funny.
Don't worry no one uses IE so it doesn't matter.
So we went from 13% of the population in 1985, when there were 237.9MM people in the US to 8% of the population in 2014 when there are approximately 318.6MM people. So from 31MM people in 1985 to 25.5MM in 2014.
But with that said, we were coming out of a recession. There's probably a considerable lag time. Anecdotally, the economy would need to be pretty healthy for quite a while before I'd risk working for a startup. So I'd be interested to see statistics in the 2020-2025 time frame. I'm not panicing yet.