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Re: The Best Laptops

David K. — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 23:56:11 -0000

Can you explain why the MacBook Air, which is cheaper, has a better screen, better battery life, and a better processor is beaten by the Dell for best ultrabook?

Re: Apple publishes new user guide detailing how sideloading and third-party app stores would undermine iPhone security

David K. — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 08:41:12 -0000

Gruber is wrong, its a potential conflict of interest, perhaps, but there is no evidence that Apple is sacrificing trustworthiness of the App Store to drive profit. They COULD have done that by cutting deals with big players to allow them special privileges in exchange for exemptions from the rules. For example they could allow Facebook tracking data in exchange for a cut of the money Facebook gets on ads. But they didn't. They have left money on the table and actually pissed off developers causing them to not offer Apps on the AppStore at all (which would net Apple money) by not letting certain types of apps in the store. Apple could have leveraged the popularity of the iPhone in oh so many ways by sacrificing trustworthiness and they have chosen not to. They continue to put that first. So yes Apple does want to make money (which, you know is what they are supposed to do as a for-profit entity) but they have placed trustworthiness (and privacy) ahead of that. Some of that is beneficial from a marketing standpoint, sure, but they could get away with so much more (see Facebook, Google, Amazon, et. al.) and still be massively popular and succesful. One of the things that boggles my mind is that Apple, despite its active role in combating many of the abuses of those big three companies, especially in regards to privacy, is being lumped together WITH them as if its guilty of the same crimes. Its absurd, and yet here we are.

Re: Apple publishes new user guide detailing how sideloading and third-party app stores would undermine iPhone security

David K. — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 08:31:08 -0000

There's this silly little thing called Android, which has huge market share and offers massive choice. So yeah, they can go elsewhere. To a platform that offers EXACTLY what they are demanding Apple give them. You don't seem to understand that there are MANY of us who choose Apple over Android precisely for the reasons Apple lays out. We made our choice and you want to take that away, you want to force everyone to have only ONE choice, the Android style. Stop forcing your choice on the rest of us, leave us alone, buy an Android and get on with your life while we get on with ours. Literally no one is stopping you.

Re: Apple publishes new user guide detailing how sideloading and third-party app stores would undermine iPhone security

David K. — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 08:29:30 -0000

Don't like is not a problem.
Its 100% ok to complain about a choice Apple makes.
Its 100% ok to advocate that Apple change their mind.
Its 100% ok to try and get others to agree with you and try and convince Apple together to change their mind.

The problem is people want to FORCE Apple to change their platform based on THEIR demands, despite Apple not wanting to do it. Despite others (such as myself) not wanting Apple to do it. People keep shouting about choice, when in fact they are seeking to remove choice. They are trying to remove the choice between open (Android) and closed (iOS). Those who want it have that choice now. No one is forcing them to buy an iPhone. There are ample Android phones that do what they want already, many of them CHEAPER than iPhones.

Re: Apple publishes new user guide detailing how sideloading and third-party app stores would undermine iPhone security

David K. — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 08:26:20 -0000

No you aren't in a stranglehold. You can buy an Android. You never have to touch "Tim's" devices.
And even then if you DO buy an iPhone, guess what, you can do whatever you want with it! Hack it as much as you like! Jailbreak to your hearts content!

But thats not what you want, you want Apple to give you help doing whatever you want! You want Apple to be FORCED to develop things how YOU like, not how they like or I like.

And you are correct, as a developer you can't share your apps freely on iPhone except through the App Store. Don't like it? Don't develop for iPhone!!! What kind of arrogance does it take to assume you have some sort of right to do whatever you want with someone else's platform. Its really really easy, if you don't like Apples rules, develop for Android. Or Windows. Or whatever.

What you want isn't "freedom", you want control, absolute control over Apple or whoever you want. You want to take away their freedom, and the freedom of users who CHOOSE Apples devices because they prefer Apples model. You are anti-freedom, you just chant freedom to get what you want, thats not freedom thats being selfish.

Re: Apple publishes new user guide detailing how sideloading and third-party app stores would undermine iPhone security

David K. — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 08:18:34 -0000

This is wholly inaccurate. You are free to do whatever you want with the phone in your pocket. You can hack it all day long to install whatever you want to put on it. What you, and others like you, are trying to do is FORCE Apple to add features whether they want to or not. Apple makes a device which has certain features and lacks others. You have the choice of whether that device suits your need or not. If it does, you buy it, if it doesn't, you don't. Fortunately its not the only choice in town. You can always buy an Android, which offers EXACTLY those features you are now demanding Apple provides. Its like forcing Pepsi to sell Coke in its vending machines. Or forcing WalMart to let people checkout using Target registers that WalMart gets no money from for the products in its stores. Or forcing Toyota to offer Fords engines in its cars. Unless a company has a monopoly (and Apple does not, not even close) forcing them to completely change their platform model, a model many of us ACTIVELY CHOSE TO BUY is absurd and anti-choice.

Re: French court sets date for another trial against Apple’s App Store

David K. — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 08:07:50 -0000

WalMart would avoid most of these problems if they allowed other companies to open shops in their stores.
Target store, Kmart store, Kroger store, etc.

They have a close system allowing only THEIR checkout and of course this gives shoppers and vendors no other choice.

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Apple is NOT a monopoly, Google exists. Android exists.

People ARE free to choose, they can choose the open Android approach or the closed iOS approach. I prefer the iOS approach SPECIFICALLY because of what I know it does and does not offer. You, and others, who want to force them to allow other App Stores are robbing me of my choice of device and platform. You can get everything you want now by using Android. Download whatever app you want. Use whatever store you want. I don't want that. I prefer security and simplicity. You don't, thats ok. But stop trying to take away MY choice.

Re: Apple continues App Store PR blitz with FastCo interview on sideloading

David K. — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 09:30:54 -0000

Forced side loading does suppress choice. Right now there are two smartphone approaches, Apples closed approach vs Androids open one. Users can choose which they prefer now. If Apple is forced to allow side loading it 100% removes the choice for those of us who prefer Apples approach.

“But you can keep just using the AppStore!”

Right up until some app we need is no longer available on the AppStore and we have to side load it, thus forcing us to do it the Android way.

It’s utterly ludicrous that Apple might be forced to stop offering a device that many of us WANT to buy for exactly what it offers, superior security, simplicity, and ease of use. If I wanted to side load I’d get an Android.

Re: Apple continues App Store PR blitz with FastCo interview on sideloading

David K. — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 09:26:34 -0000

It’s not at all contradictory. The iOS mode is better for security. Period. That Apple continues to offer the model it does on the Mac is not because Apple doesn’t think it’s a more secure option, it’s because there are other factors at play on a desktop vs smartphone, such as legacy user expectations, use cases that don’t fit the App Store model, etc. Even with that Apple has been moving the Mac more and more towards an iOS style model as much as it can, because again, from a security standpoint it’s absolutely superior.

Re: AAPL fall amid wider sell-off as investors unmoved by event

David K. — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:00:29 -0000

Tens of millions of people will. The vast majority of people don’t track or care about release cycles.

Re: Concept imagines new iMac design inspired by iPad and Pro Display XDR

David K. — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:37:05 -0000

That looks utterly boring and plain, Not that the previous design was super exciting, but this managed to be worse.

Re: A coronavirus explosion was expected in Japan. Where is it?

David K. — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 09:00:38 -0000

Assuming you are right Abe would have to be fool so grand it would make Trump look like a genius. Hiding the actual infection numbers might help him look good in the short term but it would mean an uncontrollable and out of control explosion at a later date which would be far more likely to get the Olympics called off as NO ONE would travel to Japan at that point. A denial strategy would only work if the event were imminent and they hoped to pull it off BEFORE the explosion of cases.

Re: A coronavirus explosion was expected in Japan. Where is it?

David K. — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:55:29 -0000

“ This makes absolutely no scientific sense. ”

There is nothing unscientific about it. Unlikely perhaps but R0, i.e. the rate of infection of others isn’t fixed. The whole goal of various measures is to drive it down. Only time will tell whether that is ACTUALLY the case in Japan. But it’s not impossible.

Re: If Tokyo Games not possible, 1-2 year delay realistic, organizing committee member tells paper

David K. — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 23:39:09 -0000

Uh, why not, if he is the FORMER director then the conflict (if you consider it that) is removed. But also the Olympics are a commercial venture, they exist (like most semi-pro and pro sports) in part, to make money for sponsors/advertisers in the end. While there is certainly room for criticism of that arrangement, it is the current one. Setting up the games to make money is currently one of the primary goals. So in that sense there is no conflict of interest in this case.

Re: COVID-19 spread on Diamond Princess before quarantine, report suggests

David K. — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:42:20 -0000

Or, you know, Iwata was wrong. Not everything is a coverup/conspiracy.

Re: Two Diamond Princess passengers infected with coronavirus have died, government sources say

David K. — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:37:41 -0000

Except being elderly means decreased immune system strength. This is not news, its a well known fact of life.

Re: Two Diamond Princess passengers infected with coronavirus have died, government sources say

David K. — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:36:48 -0000

They WERE taken off the cruise ship and taken to hospitals.

Re: Pac-12 championship game pick: Utah favored to beat Oregon

David K. — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 02:08:23 -0000

Yes, I do know that.
I would also expect someone whose job it is to analyze and provide insight to be able to do better than that.

And I agree, picking against the spread is banal.

Re: Pac-12 championship game pick: Utah favored to beat Oregon

David K. — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 09:35:52 -0000

“ Last week: 3-3
Season: 41-40”

So as accurate as a coin flip. Insightful.

Re: apple-cup-paul-gallant-decision-day

David K. — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:04:40 -0000

Wait, you use the fact that you want to take the Husky fans down a peg because they are (rightfully) proud of their dominance in the rivalry with the Cougs, but at the same time you think its arrogant for UW to view Oregon as the bigger rival based on them being an underdog in recent years? Ya can't have it both ways Paul. I mean if you feel more attachment to the Cougs, go for it. But umm, the Huskies have every reason to dismiss the Cougs because history has proven the rivalry to be massively lopsided. Meanwhile the UW/UO rivalry, while recently lackluster (in large part thanks to the UWs lost decade and Phil Knights embrace of UofO) historically its been tilted in Washington's favor. Rivalries aren't built on the most recent decade, dismissing their history is kinda missing the whole point of a rivalry...

Re: Pac-12 football frustration: ADs speak out about night games

David K. — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 01:56:44 -0000

Night games are part of the problem, but the bigger part of the problem is the 6/12 day scheduling window. Not knowing in advance what ones schedule is going to be makes planning for games difficult, especially for families. I get the late night scheduling, but honestly I think the flexible scheduling is way less important than people think. I doubt which teams are playing really moves the needle, we all know the people on the east coast barely know (or care) which team is which anyway when it comes to the Pac-12.

Re: Pac-12 picks: Arizona State upsets Oregon and here's why

David K. — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 01:50:54 -0000

"Season: 34-35
Five-star special: 6-6"

So basically you'd have as much luck choosing based on a random coin toss. Why should anyone trust the insight/analysis of someone who could be replaced by a coin flip?? Either you need to admit you don't have a clue, or you need to think about why you are so often wrong and do something about it.

Also, picking against the spread? Unless you're gambling thats really pointless.

Re: College football attendance drops: How to reverse the trend

David K. — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:25:03 -0000

The problem is simple, the craptacular scheduling that has been forced upon the universities by the networks. Used to be you knew when every game was when the season started. Now your lucky to know a week in advance. Getting harder and harder to plan. The pendulum has swung too far in favor of the networks and not the fans. This is the result.

Re: Bernie Sanders criticizes Apple’s $2.5B housing crisis pledge as an act of ‘hypocrisy’

David K. — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:43:47 -0000

1. This country wasn't founded on the free market system. I would expect "a historian" to know that. This country was founded on the principles of representative government.

2. Actually Mr. Sanders and all the rest of us have every right to try and change the free market system, or any system, through that representative government. Again, a historian should understand that. The constitution explicitly states this in two seperate ways, first a legislature to enact new laws, second an amendment process to change the foundational document itself.

3. As a human being it literally sickens me to see people like you who want to put ideology and economic "liberty" ahead of peoples lives and general well being.

4. Why don't you move to a libertarian country and be happy? Is it because such countries don't exist because pure libertarianism doesn't work?

Re: The Pac-12 in 2029: Will the conference expand, or contract

David K. — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:59:02 -0000

🤣🤣🤣
Keep telling yourself that.
Might want to take a history course or too, it tends to be the other way around most of the time.