Okay ;)

If you know, you know. When you don’t know, it shows.

Common knowledge, my friend.

Don’t blame the devs. If you’re an iOS dev you’re just an iOS dev, period. It’s the most important platform and it’s very quirky. It is not a simple matter to republish on Android, especially when it means doubling the complexity of the code you manage to increase your user base by 20%, which is realistic in many cases. App developers just see an enormous amount more engagement from iOS. Yes there are a lot of Android phones but many of them are dirt cheap and may never even see a single app install because it’s just a phone to its owner.

It’s weird how everyone knows what an iPad is but they are still a very very small part of the iOS market. I manage a large global app and it hovers around 1-2% of our iOS user base.

Agreed it was a fantastic tablet.

I’m not upset about it. It’s just a lame sensationalist article bending the facts over to get clicks. Happens day in and out.

I like how they’re comparing a rumor to the last cycle of production devices and then extrapolating that to what direction everyone is going. I can’t believe I wasted the click on this.

Such a bummer that I can’t use one here in the US.

You fundamentally misunderstand the technology. For push notifications and amber alerts and such to work, you need a personal 1:1 digital connection to a nearby cell tower. The range on that connection is not very far, and every alert needs to be sent individually.

An FM tower could broad-beam disaster information for tens of miles around with much simpler technology, out of one location on generator power. It is a far more reliable way to get information about a major disaster out to everybody simultaneously with far fewer infrastructure layers involved. No need to spool literally millions of alert pings out.

Also a continuous voice stream carries a lot more info than a damn push notification - obviously.

I’m amazed that took off but I guess that’s 2023 me talking

Weird! How were they consumed before they were added to iTunes or the iPod? I should know this but I don’t recall.

Am I totally crazy or did the word “podcast” come directly from the Apple proprietary product name “iPod?” You know, their old music players?

If so it’s weird to see an Apple-specific term spread so far and wide. They usually stay within the walled garden.

The guy had no furniture in his house because he couldn’t find any that met his expectations.

I think there’s an occasional lesson to draw from his uncompromising nature, focus on customer experience, and marketing talent. But he was clearly a pile of shit as a human being.

The equivalence with the car keys is completely solid since both are meatspace attacks. I never said that writing your password down is a bigger risk than hacks over the internet or social engineering, so I don’t know why you’re trying to correct me on that.

All I will say is that meatspace password theft is a genuine concern. Just because you know someone doesn’t mean you grant them all access. And they have housekeepers routinely in the home who are authorized to be there but could totally thieve the info and misuse it.

So happy I got 1Password set up and it has treated me right during the years I’ve used it. I wish my parents had such a thing. They have all the passwords written on a sheet of paper that sits under the keyboard. Like the digital version of car keys up in the visor.

YouTube, 1Password, Amazon

Sorry, I know I’m supposed to say something cooler than Amazon but it is hard to imagine life without it now.

Democracy in the US.

Apple’s 3D Touch on iPhone. Force Touch or whatever they called it. The ability to hard press to get something like a right-click. Wish they’d kept it. Used it every day for placing my cursor.

I can’t wait to hear the Apple marketing word for this feature. They’ll add some gimmick like the battery is held in with magnets and say “We call it MagPack and we think you’re going to love it.”