The only part about this that I find surprising is that Apple's solution to this wasn't to sell iPants with no pockets.
Given the girth of the average Apple fan** here in the UK... I wouldn't want to see any of them in pants*.
* For the uninitiated, in the UK pants == underwear. What you call pants we call trousers.
** Apple are missing out on a huge opportunity, the iPie. Buy a £0.50 frozen pie from ASDA, add a apple logo made from pastry to the top and sell them for £5 a piece. Apple fans would live off them.
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We're selling your private data. The EU has a law against this and if we complied, we'd lose a shitload of moola from selling your precious private information.
This can't be right. They are saying that Uber's self-driving car rig is neither designed to stop for nor alert the driver about pedestrians obstructing the path of the vehicle. It's just designed to... log them?!
What part about this is considered "self-driving" then, exactly?
According to the technical definition, it was self driving. It drove itself right into a pedestrian.
Things like Steam are free, you can use steam and not spend a single penny on the Steam store.
I'm gathering from your sig, you're an Aussie (likely 30's or 40's). I'm an Aussie of similar age who lives in the UK now. Today, is GDPR day. This means that all those scummy companies passing your details around like the town bike are no longer permitted to do that without express consent. As such up until today I've been receiving a plethora of emails and popups, they've come in two types:
1. We're not compliant with the GDPR, please click here so we can continue spamming you.
2. We're complaint with the GDPR, we're just letting you know.
Steam was the latter (along with Singapore Airlines) whilst facebook was the 2nd worst of the former. The good thing about GDPR is that I've been able to tell facebook that they cant ID me in photos or pass my details along to 3rd parties.
In case you're wondering, Green Motion Rentals was the worst. They've emailed me straight for 2 weeks, 3 last night, even trying emotional blackmail.
"Solo" began opening in previews on Thursday night in North America, with forecasts of an debut weekend of $130 million to $150 million
Dream on. Foreign box office totals have been grisly so far.
A lot of people don't realize how severely The Last Jedi harmed the franchise as a whole by souring audience expectations (and it won't get fixed before this Boba Fett flick, if ever).
That's because a lot of people simply don't care. A few fanboys who are butthurt about something... Not sure what, I thought the Last Jedi was a good movie, not great, but good enough. Most people are the same.
I expect that the Solo movie will do well in most countries. They're designed to get normal people in to watch them, not commit hundreds of millions to fellatiate a small number of fans.
Like all other forms of freedom of expression, people also have the right NOT to listen.
Goes also to "freedom of association".
First off, "not to listen" is muting, which is still permitted.
What this case did was say that government officials using communication for government business CANNOT prevent someone from replying. It applies only to the US govt censoring replies. That whole first amendment thing you're so fond of.
Compared to Europe, Australia, and I imagine most developed countries, riding the subway in New York feels like you're in a 3rd world country. I get that "cars are king" for most of the US, but in New York City, where there's an obvious need for mass transit, and insanely expensive real estate above those tracks, it's shocking that the state of mass transit below ground seems stuck in the 20th century.
Australian trains aren't that good, but most Australians will not travel on them because they live nowhere near a station. Its relatively easy to run a train network no-one uses.
My journalist friend resigned in protest soon after. Alas, in Australia, its either work for Murdoch or join the welfare queue
I know a few Journo's from Australia. Unless you land a nice job on the ABC (which is hard to do) most Journo's move into Marketing (AKA Corporate Communications) as that is a more honest career than writing for the papers. At least you're only lying by omission when writing advertorials than lying though your arse writing for The (un)Australian.
What's in it for Mercedes/BWM to deliver a small number of cars and earn some peanuts for customization?
If it becomes a fiasco (most likely) they get a PR hit. If it succeeds (hah) Apple licenses it to everyone any way. Only way this really makes much sense is as a joint venture. Otherwise Apple should just buy the cars and modify them themselves.
Worse yet, Merc/BMW risk brand dilution by partnering with Apple. I'm not surprised that Stuttgart gave them the cold shoulder, what have they got to gain compared to what they have to lose.
This wont be popular, but Apple pretty much are the Volkswagen of the computing/communications world. They produce mediocre stuff and pretend its superior even though people on benefits can buy it, they even try to pass themselves off as a premium brand to try to justify higher prices when the difference between a Polo and a (Ford) Fiesta is nil and often trade entirely on past glories.
The French were weakened by WWI, but had rebuilt quite a bit. The German army had taken heavy damage from the invasion of Poland and other battles. Hitler's top military commanders told him they couldn't invade Belgium and France until they had about two years to rebuild their strength. By the numbers, the two sides were roughly matched in the Battle of France:
The French expected a German assault would be much slower, with Belgian resistance giving the French time to prepare before the German army could advance through Belgium to France. In fact, the Luftwaffe were able to defeat Belgium very quickly, so things were not going the way French leaders expected when Germany was suddenly near their border. Since things weren't going according to plan, there was confusion and disorder in the French military in the first few days. Some French commanders and soldiers fought the best they could, without much national leadership.
France's problem is that most of that equipment was horribly outdated. The Germans had built their tanks and aircraft from completely new designs, France and the UK followed WWI tank doctrines of scout tanks and heavy infantry tanks designed to support an infantry advance. So their heavy tanks often didn't have guns capable of dealing with armour and were definitely not fast enough to go toe to toe with German Panzers. It was the same with naval forces, much of the Royal Navy dated from WWI.
The French did a fair job in preventing Paris not getting bombed to chunky kibbles.
Not to be unfair to our friends across the channel, but it was Hitler who steadfastly refused to harm Paris, the rest of France was open slather but Hitler decreed that Paris was to be taken intact.
France's problem was that it was prepared to fight the last war (as was the UK and US, but we had the advantage of entire oceans between us) so all of their defences were centred around the Maginot line, which the Germans completely bypassed and surrounded a large part of the French army. Add to that that their armour was in no way comparable to the Panzer III and IV's crossing into France at the time, France either had light tanks designed for scouting or heavy infantry tanks. Nor did they have any new planes in their air force (the UK had the Spitfire and Hurricane at the outset of the war).
Hitler also spared several places in the UK, Reading, an important rail and manufacturing hub 40 miles from London was spared because of one building Hitler thought too beautiful to be destroyed (now called Greenlands Lodge). Hitler was quite daft like that and ultimately it was interference like this that helped the allies win the war more than 100,000 extra Spitfires could have.
I do industrial automation for a living, since about 2000. There's a certain class of automation problem where getting to a 90% solution is easy, getting to 95% takes a lot of work, and getting to 97% is extremely hard.
This,
This is why I believe that autonomous cars are a long way off. We may be 95% of the way there, but in order for autonomous cars to be ready for public consumption we need to be 99.999% of the way there. As RobinH pointed out, getting to 97% is extremely hard and getting that last 2.999% is an absolute bitch. Human drivers are already at five nines in the UK, the actual number of road fatalities and TPD (Total Permanent Disability) is actually very low.
For a long time Google ran their test car with zero problems, this is because Google did this with a professional driver paying attention at all times, in sunny California. They controlled the conditions as best they could... And this is what they were meant to do because that is how you safely find flaws. Now we've got autonomous cars being given to normal people who assume the technology is perfect and we're seeing a sharp up tick in collisions, incidents and deaths.
It doesn't help that Musk using his cult of personality to sell the idea that this technology is ready and shut down any criticism but that'll just make it easier to ban the technology (which is a bad thing IMHO)
The right question to ask is : would you prefer to ride in a self-driven car, or with a drunken driver ? and with a very tired driver ?
I mean why stop there.
The right question to as is: Would you like to ride in a self driving car in a summers day on a controlled road with no traffic or in an death-race style commute with a drunken, tired Donald Trump at the wheel whilst he listens to the BBC world service and pops Prozacs every 24 seconds.
If you're going load a question, bloody well load it properly
It's almost like you want to sell the higher margin ones first, in order to help pay for the amazing capital expenditure it takes to build a car assembly line.
Who is shocked by this? Nobody should be, as this is how it has always worked.
Because most manufacturers cost the capital to make car before hand and amortise that over however many models they expect to sell.
Or they buy the factories using cash on hand, therefore do not have to do this.
Why didn't Telsa? Oh yeah, it's more important to be "edgy", "cool" and "disruptive" than to have a workable business plan.
It was those yellow walkmans in the 90s. Those where like a 90s iPhone, every kid had to have one.
You do realize that every iPhone has a Sony camera in it?
Also I'd suggest that the Playstation at least at one point qualified as a hit gadget.
That doesn't mean they're making any money from it. If you sell 100,000,000 cameras for £0.01 less than what they cost to make, then you lose a million quid.
The PlayStation hardware was sold at a significant loss, this was compensated for by raising the licensing fees for games (which is why the PS/XB versions are more expensive than the PC version). Getting someone else to build it for a loss would be ideal, but I doubt they're going to find one.
Confirmed Opt-In, or COI, has been touted as a best practice for mailing lists for many years now. You didn't need to be psychic and predict the future to anticipate GDPR; you just needed to be above-board about what you were doing with the sign-up process and follow well published best practice. If you'd done that, and retained a copy of all of your opt-in confirmations, then all your end-user interaction for GDPR compliance would have required would have been a simple rider on a regular marketing email reminding your subscribers of where they could view your GDPR policies, contact you if required, and to change their communications preferences if they wished. No further end-user action required.
Sadly, even amongst those lists that have been using COI for years, this point seems to have escaped most mailing list maintainers.
I think it's an arse covering exercise. Sadly there's been so much FUD about GDPR, much of it from outside the EU that it's made a lot of people unnecessarily nervous.
Also whilst COI is best practice, its not a widespread practice and a lot of companies, even companies inside the EU practice use unconfirmed opt in (Usually via a box that is checked by default) or sometimes don't even bother asking at all (Looking at you Vodafone). Some businesses are nervous for a good reason.
Do you operate in the EU? If not, how would you be fined? And if so are you just closing your EU business entirely?
This is one of the biggest problems with the GDPR, it only applies to businesses in the EU... Then again, most marketing email I get from American companies ends up in my Spam folder already (even the stuff I want to get).
Do you honestly believe that Hillary wouldn't pull same shit on him if they swapped places? Pot calling kettle black.
Captcha:swingers
I think that if the roles were reversed, Hillary, or any other presidential candidate you care to name, Democrat or Republican, would be concentrating on doing his job, solving the middle east mess, getting infrastructure reform done, finding some kind of compromise in the Obamacare feud that everybody can live with, doing something about mass shootings. Basically that candidate would be doing their job rather than spending all his time obsessing about what the person who lost the election was allegedly doing years ago and extorting foreign leaders into bailing out his son in law's real estate company and investing in his own resort projects in as a prerequisite to getting things done.
This... And I mean any other candidate, not just Clinton but Sanders, Huckabee, that guy that looks like the blue bird from the Muppets. Everyone up to and including the Moron in Chiefs own running mate would be busier trying to get shit done instead of blaming the media for reporting their failings.
If they're not making enough money from app sales - which is their complaint then withdrawing from the app store isn't going to hurt them more than it hurts Apple.
The thing is, it's not nearly enough money to make Apple care. Apple is barely going to feel it. Their only hope is to make enough noise in the media to embarrass Apple. So it's only going to hurt the Developers because the App Store is overcrowded anyway and there are still dozens of starry-eyed suckers who think that 99% of App developers don't lose money.
Developers: Apple, submit to our demands or we'll pull the trigger. Apple: But that shotgun is aimed squarely at your own foot. /Shotgun blast rings. Develoeprs: We've still got one more foot left Apple, your move.
Indeed, it won't be turned off until all those valuable drive time listeners and OAPs get digital radios. For cars it's particularly difficult to retrofit, because the original controls on the dash and steering wheel work with the cheap kits and the expensive ones are expensive and tricky to fit.
You'd be surprised how easy they actually are to fit. You just need the right kit for your car. I retrofitted a new head unit to my 2004 Z4. the steering wheel controls went through the mic in. I bought a £:15 kit from the same place I bought the head unit from. All I had to do was plug it in between the quad connector (what BMW calls the bit that connects to the speakers/steering wheel to the head unit) and then plug that into the Alpine to BMW connector which plugged into the back of the head unit.
The "slow down older phones" brouhaha was way overblown in the media. Apple had a choice between slowing down phones with a marginal battery or having them randomly crash at times of high workload. They made the right choice, one that resulted in a much longer device life and higher customer satisfaction. All they did wrong was failing to communicate why the phone slowed down.
Erm... Either that answer is utter bollocks... or the phone is incredibly badly designed.
I've got a Nexus 5x which is approaching 2.5 years old. The battery, as predicted is no longer holding the same charge as it did new (I still get a full day out of it, 2 if I don't use the phone much, but 3 or 4 days between charges is no longer possible). The OS does not crash under high workload, devices crash under high workload for 2 reasons, 1. OS is incredibly poorly designed or 2. The hardware is incredibly poorly designed (usually it's overheating, from my experience with PC gaming). Gimping the CPU can help prevent overheating... but that would be admitting their hardware is crap.
Its far more likely that Apple was trying to encourage you to buy a new phone.
Tesla seems to take all the fun out of performance. It used to be able oil and gas and the small of exhaust coming out of two dual 2.5" exhaust pipes with a sound that made an indication of how fast it was. Now it's just a really quick golf cart.
Its worse than that, along with the pomp and pageantry of a properly fast car, they've also made them horrible to drive.
I've driven a Model 3, the steering is wallowy and soft, there is a huge dead zone in the middle of the wheel and to say that it's unresponsive is a huge understatement. It might be able to go fast in a straight line, but forget the corners. A much slower Mazda MX-5 will be seriously outperforming you. For any kind of spirited driving, it is a truly dreadful car to drive.
The Nurburgring, that place that draws much ire from Clarskson and May because it's considered the benchmark for automotive performance. A fast car (as in a modern hyper/super car) goes round in just under 7 minutes. A fast road car does it in under 8 mins. Normal road cars do it in over 9 mins and Sabine Schmitz of Top Gear and D Motor fame took a Ford Transit van around in 10:08. Now what time has the Model 3 posted... Well it hasn't because in order to post a time you need to do a lap, at full chat the batteries in a Model 3 cant last the 3.1 miles of track.
Your business model is literally worse than "Let's burn $5.6m in cash each month on a big bonfire".
Don't you know that the business model of the future means it doesn't matter how much money you're losing or whether or not you have any real plan for profitability, it's all about making sure people are calling you "disruptive", developing a cult fanbase and ignoring the laws you don't like.
Yes, I have owned a business. It wasn't large, I don't claim that. But I never made a loss, not once.
I'm calling BS on that.
I've actually run a business, some weeks I made losses, others I made profit, quarterly it looked better, in 3 years I only made 2 quarterly losses and one of those was my first quarter (which is to be expected). I sold the business and made out with a decent profit after paying my debts.
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The only part about this that I find surprising is that Apple's solution to this wasn't to sell iPants with no pockets.
Given the girth of the average Apple fan** here in the UK... I wouldn't want to see any of them in pants*.
* For the uninitiated, in the UK pants == underwear. What you call pants we call trousers.
** Apple are missing out on a huge opportunity, the iPie. Buy a £0.50 frozen pie from ASDA, add a apple logo made from pastry to the top and sell them for £5 a piece. Apple fans would live off them.
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Translation:
We're selling your private data. The EU has a law against this and if we complied, we'd lose a shitload of moola from selling your precious private information.
This can't be right. They are saying that Uber's self-driving car rig is neither designed to stop for nor alert the driver about pedestrians obstructing the path of the vehicle. It's just designed to... log them?!
What part about this is considered "self-driving" then, exactly?
According to the technical definition, it was self driving. It drove itself right into a pedestrian.
Have we heard of other embassies in Cuba or China having the same issues?
If not, I'd say the issue was more likely to be with how the US chooses its Embassy staff than some secret ultrasonic weapon.
everyone is the product.
Not always.
Things like Steam are free, you can use steam and not spend a single penny on the Steam store.
I'm gathering from your sig, you're an Aussie (likely 30's or 40's). I'm an Aussie of similar age who lives in the UK now. Today, is GDPR day. This means that all those scummy companies passing your details around like the town bike are no longer permitted to do that without express consent. As such up until today I've been receiving a plethora of emails and popups, they've come in two types:
1. We're not compliant with the GDPR, please click here so we can continue spamming you.
2. We're complaint with the GDPR, we're just letting you know.
Steam was the latter (along with Singapore Airlines) whilst facebook was the 2nd worst of the former. The good thing about GDPR is that I've been able to tell facebook that they cant ID me in photos or pass my details along to 3rd parties.
In case you're wondering, Green Motion Rentals was the worst. They've emailed me straight for 2 weeks, 3 last night, even trying emotional blackmail.
Dream on. Foreign box office totals have been grisly so far.
A lot of people don't realize how severely The Last Jedi harmed the franchise as a whole by souring audience expectations (and it won't get fixed before this Boba Fett flick, if ever).
That's because a lot of people simply don't care. A few fanboys who are butthurt about something... Not sure what, I thought the Last Jedi was a good movie, not great, but good enough. Most people are the same.
I expect that the Solo movie will do well in most countries. They're designed to get normal people in to watch them, not commit hundreds of millions to fellatiate a small number of fans.
...violates their freedom of expression.
Like all other forms of freedom of expression, people also have the right NOT to listen.
Goes also to "freedom of association".
First off, "not to listen" is muting, which is still permitted. What this case did was say that government officials using communication for government business CANNOT prevent someone from replying. It applies only to the US govt censoring replies. That whole first amendment thing you're so fond of.
Compared to Europe, Australia, and I imagine most developed countries, riding the subway in New York feels like you're in a 3rd world country. I get that "cars are king" for most of the US, but in New York City, where there's an obvious need for mass transit, and insanely expensive real estate above those tracks, it's shocking that the state of mass transit below ground seems stuck in the 20th century.
Australian trains aren't that good, but most Australians will not travel on them because they live nowhere near a station. Its relatively easy to run a train network no-one uses.
My journalist friend resigned in protest soon after. Alas, in Australia, its either work for Murdoch or join the welfare queue
I know a few Journo's from Australia. Unless you land a nice job on the ABC (which is hard to do) most Journo's move into Marketing (AKA Corporate Communications) as that is a more honest career than writing for the papers. At least you're only lying by omission when writing advertorials than lying though your arse writing for The (un)Australian.
What's in it for Mercedes/BWM to deliver a small number of cars and earn some peanuts for customization?
If it becomes a fiasco (most likely) they get a PR hit. If it succeeds (hah) Apple licenses it to everyone any way. Only way this really makes much sense is as a joint venture. Otherwise Apple should just buy the cars and modify them themselves.
Worse yet, Merc/BMW risk brand dilution by partnering with Apple. I'm not surprised that Stuttgart gave them the cold shoulder, what have they got to gain compared to what they have to lose.
This wont be popular, but Apple pretty much are the Volkswagen of the computing/communications world. They produce mediocre stuff and pretend its superior even though people on benefits can buy it, they even try to pass themselves off as a premium brand to try to justify higher prices when the difference between a Polo and a (Ford) Fiesta is nil and often trade entirely on past glories.
The French were weakened by WWI, but had rebuilt quite a bit. The German army had taken heavy damage from the invasion of Poland and other battles. Hitler's top military commanders told him they couldn't invade Belgium and France until they had about two years to rebuild their strength. By the numbers, the two sides were roughly matched in the Battle of France:
Germany: 141 divisions
7,378 guns
2,445 tanks
5,638 aircraft
3,350,000 troops
Allies: 144 divisions
13,974 guns
3,383â"4,071 French tanks
2,935 aircraft
3,300,000 troops
The French expected a German assault would be much slower, with Belgian resistance giving the French time to prepare before the German army could advance through Belgium to France. In fact, the Luftwaffe were able to defeat Belgium very quickly, so things were not going the way French leaders expected when Germany was suddenly near their border. Since things weren't going according to plan, there was confusion and disorder in the French military in the first few days. Some French commanders and soldiers fought the best they could, without much national leadership.
France's problem is that most of that equipment was horribly outdated. The Germans had built their tanks and aircraft from completely new designs, France and the UK followed WWI tank doctrines of scout tanks and heavy infantry tanks designed to support an infantry advance. So their heavy tanks often didn't have guns capable of dealing with armour and were definitely not fast enough to go toe to toe with German Panzers. It was the same with naval forces, much of the Royal Navy dated from WWI.
The French did a fair job in preventing Paris not getting bombed to chunky kibbles.
Not to be unfair to our friends across the channel, but it was Hitler who steadfastly refused to harm Paris, the rest of France was open slather but Hitler decreed that Paris was to be taken intact.
France's problem was that it was prepared to fight the last war (as was the UK and US, but we had the advantage of entire oceans between us) so all of their defences were centred around the Maginot line, which the Germans completely bypassed and surrounded a large part of the French army. Add to that that their armour was in no way comparable to the Panzer III and IV's crossing into France at the time, France either had light tanks designed for scouting or heavy infantry tanks. Nor did they have any new planes in their air force (the UK had the Spitfire and Hurricane at the outset of the war).
Hitler also spared several places in the UK, Reading, an important rail and manufacturing hub 40 miles from London was spared because of one building Hitler thought too beautiful to be destroyed (now called Greenlands Lodge). Hitler was quite daft like that and ultimately it was interference like this that helped the allies win the war more than 100,000 extra Spitfires could have.
I do industrial automation for a living, since about 2000. There's a certain class of automation problem where getting to a 90% solution is easy, getting to 95% takes a lot of work, and getting to 97% is extremely hard.
This,
This is why I believe that autonomous cars are a long way off. We may be 95% of the way there, but in order for autonomous cars to be ready for public consumption we need to be 99.999% of the way there. As RobinH pointed out, getting to 97% is extremely hard and getting that last 2.999% is an absolute bitch. Human drivers are already at five nines in the UK, the actual number of road fatalities and TPD (Total Permanent Disability) is actually very low.
For a long time Google ran their test car with zero problems, this is because Google did this with a professional driver paying attention at all times, in sunny California. They controlled the conditions as best they could... And this is what they were meant to do because that is how you safely find flaws. Now we've got autonomous cars being given to normal people who assume the technology is perfect and we're seeing a sharp up tick in collisions, incidents and deaths.
It doesn't help that Musk using his cult of personality to sell the idea that this technology is ready and shut down any criticism but that'll just make it easier to ban the technology (which is a bad thing IMHO)
The right question to ask is : would you prefer to ride in a self-driven car, or with a drunken driver ? and with a very tired driver ?
I mean why stop there.
The right question to as is: Would you like to ride in a self driving car in a summers day on a controlled road with no traffic or in an death-race style commute with a drunken, tired Donald Trump at the wheel whilst he listens to the BBC world service and pops Prozacs every 24 seconds.
If you're going load a question, bloody well load it properly
It's almost like you want to sell the higher margin ones first, in order to help pay for the amazing capital expenditure it takes to build a car assembly line.
Who is shocked by this? Nobody should be, as this is how it has always worked.
Because most manufacturers cost the capital to make car before hand and amortise that over however many models they expect to sell.
Or they buy the factories using cash on hand, therefore do not have to do this.
Why didn't Telsa? Oh yeah, it's more important to be "edgy", "cool" and "disruptive" than to have a workable business plan.
It was those yellow walkmans in the 90s. Those where like a 90s iPhone, every kid had to have one.
You do realize that every iPhone has a Sony camera in it?
Also I'd suggest that the Playstation at least at one point qualified as a hit gadget.
That doesn't mean they're making any money from it. If you sell 100,000,000 cameras for £0.01 less than what they cost to make, then you lose a million quid.
The PlayStation hardware was sold at a significant loss, this was compensated for by raising the licensing fees for games (which is why the PS/XB versions are more expensive than the PC version). Getting someone else to build it for a loss would be ideal, but I doubt they're going to find one.
Confirmed Opt-In, or COI, has been touted as a best practice for mailing lists for many years now. You didn't need to be psychic and predict the future to anticipate GDPR; you just needed to be above-board about what you were doing with the sign-up process and follow well published best practice. If you'd done that, and retained a copy of all of your opt-in confirmations, then all your end-user interaction for GDPR compliance would have required would have been a simple rider on a regular marketing email reminding your subscribers of where they could view your GDPR policies, contact you if required, and to change their communications preferences if they wished. No further end-user action required.
Sadly, even amongst those lists that have been using COI for years, this point seems to have escaped most mailing list maintainers.
I think it's an arse covering exercise. Sadly there's been so much FUD about GDPR, much of it from outside the EU that it's made a lot of people unnecessarily nervous.
Also whilst COI is best practice, its not a widespread practice and a lot of companies, even companies inside the EU practice use unconfirmed opt in (Usually via a box that is checked by default) or sometimes don't even bother asking at all (Looking at you Vodafone). Some businesses are nervous for a good reason.
Do you operate in the EU? If not, how would you be fined? And if so are you just closing your EU business entirely?
This is one of the biggest problems with the GDPR, it only applies to businesses in the EU... Then again, most marketing email I get from American companies ends up in my Spam folder already (even the stuff I want to get).
Do you honestly believe that Hillary wouldn't pull same shit on him if they swapped places? Pot calling kettle black. Captcha:swingers
I think that if the roles were reversed, Hillary, or any other presidential candidate you care to name, Democrat or Republican, would be concentrating on doing his job, solving the middle east mess, getting infrastructure reform done, finding some kind of compromise in the Obamacare feud that everybody can live with, doing something about mass shootings. Basically that candidate would be doing their job rather than spending all his time obsessing about what the person who lost the election was allegedly doing years ago and extorting foreign leaders into bailing out his son in law's real estate company and investing in his own resort projects in as a prerequisite to getting things done.
This... And I mean any other candidate, not just Clinton but Sanders, Huckabee, that guy that looks like the blue bird from the Muppets. Everyone up to and including the Moron in Chiefs own running mate would be busier trying to get shit done instead of blaming the media for reporting their failings.
If they're not making enough money from app sales - which is their complaint then withdrawing from the app store isn't going to hurt them more than it hurts Apple.
The thing is, it's not nearly enough money to make Apple care. Apple is barely going to feel it. Their only hope is to make enough noise in the media to embarrass Apple. So it's only going to hurt the Developers because the App Store is overcrowded anyway and there are still dozens of starry-eyed suckers who think that 99% of App developers don't lose money.
Developers: Apple, submit to our demands or we'll pull the trigger.
/Shotgun blast rings.
Apple: But that shotgun is aimed squarely at your own foot.
Develoeprs: We've still got one more foot left Apple, your move.
Indeed, it won't be turned off until all those valuable drive time listeners and OAPs get digital radios. For cars it's particularly difficult to retrofit, because the original controls on the dash and steering wheel work with the cheap kits and the expensive ones are expensive and tricky to fit.
You'd be surprised how easy they actually are to fit. You just need the right kit for your car. I retrofitted a new head unit to my 2004 Z4. the steering wheel controls went through the mic in. I bought a £:15 kit from the same place I bought the head unit from. All I had to do was plug it in between the quad connector (what BMW calls the bit that connects to the speakers/steering wheel to the head unit) and then plug that into the Alpine to BMW connector which plugged into the back of the head unit.
The "slow down older phones" brouhaha was way overblown in the media. Apple had a choice between slowing down phones with a marginal battery or having them randomly crash at times of high workload. They made the right choice, one that resulted in a much longer device life and higher customer satisfaction. All they did wrong was failing to communicate why the phone slowed down.
Erm... Either that answer is utter bollocks... or the phone is incredibly badly designed.
I've got a Nexus 5x which is approaching 2.5 years old. The battery, as predicted is no longer holding the same charge as it did new (I still get a full day out of it, 2 if I don't use the phone much, but 3 or 4 days between charges is no longer possible). The OS does not crash under high workload, devices crash under high workload for 2 reasons, 1. OS is incredibly poorly designed or 2. The hardware is incredibly poorly designed (usually it's overheating, from my experience with PC gaming). Gimping the CPU can help prevent overheating... but that would be admitting their hardware is crap.
Its far more likely that Apple was trying to encourage you to buy a new phone.
Tesla seems to take all the fun out of performance. It used to be able oil and gas and the small of exhaust coming out of two dual 2.5" exhaust pipes with a sound that made an indication of how fast it was. Now it's just a really quick golf cart.
Its worse than that, along with the pomp and pageantry of a properly fast car, they've also made them horrible to drive.
I've driven a Model 3, the steering is wallowy and soft, there is a huge dead zone in the middle of the wheel and to say that it's unresponsive is a huge understatement. It might be able to go fast in a straight line, but forget the corners. A much slower Mazda MX-5 will be seriously outperforming you. For any kind of spirited driving, it is a truly dreadful car to drive.
The Nurburgring, that place that draws much ire from Clarskson and May because it's considered the benchmark for automotive performance. A fast car (as in a modern hyper/super car) goes round in just under 7 minutes. A fast road car does it in under 8 mins. Normal road cars do it in over 9 mins and Sabine Schmitz of Top Gear and D Motor fame took a Ford Transit van around in 10:08. Now what time has the Model 3 posted... Well it hasn't because in order to post a time you need to do a lap, at full chat the batteries in a Model 3 cant last the 3.1 miles of track.
Your business model is literally worse than "Let's burn $5.6m in cash each month on a big bonfire".
Don't you know that the business model of the future means it doesn't matter how much money you're losing or whether or not you have any real plan for profitability, it's all about making sure people are calling you "disruptive", developing a cult fanbase and ignoring the laws you don't like.
Yes, I have owned a business. It wasn't large, I don't claim that. But I never made a loss, not once.
I'm calling BS on that.
I've actually run a business, some weeks I made losses, others I made profit, quarterly it looked better, in 3 years I only made 2 quarterly losses and one of those was my first quarter (which is to be expected). I sold the business and made out with a decent profit after paying my debts.