That video (someone posted a gif of here) of her ripping up a picture of the pope was basically the end of her career.
If you weren’t listening to music before that, I wouldn’t be too surprised that you missed her.
Chris Cornell did a cover of Nothing Compares to You, which is incredible. The song was originally by Prince, but Sinead O’Connor’s version made it huge (at the time).
Every doctor that becomes famous via Oprah is a quack.
I stopped asking people their name because of this. I figure if I will be around them enough to need to know their name, I’ll learn it through other people mentioning it.
Once there was a girl I kind of liked, so I decided to ask her name, actually a big thing for me. She got super pissed off, because she thought I should have already know it… I had never spoken to her before. The previous time she was over I was sick and spent the whole night in my room. I think that was the last time I asked someone’s name…. It was 20 years ago.
Until the tax bill comes. I heard most people take the cash value, because they can’t afford the taxes on the prize, or the prize isn’t worth what the tax requirements would be to them.
A looong time ago my grandpa won a patio set. He ended up suing whoever he won it from for what the taxes were, arguing that the taxes were more expensive than a patio set he would have realistically bought. At least that’s the story I heard.
When I was 10 Mosaic didn’t even exist yet.
I already gave my theory on that. For all we know Apple was going to release a USB-C iPhone this year anyway, but now if it happens it will look like it was because of the EU.
I like the mini phones, so I’m screwed no matter what they do, as I doubt they’re going to bring it back. I think that was a marketing failure on their part.
I agree with that. I have not been a fan of everything Cook has done, and he is clearly not a product person. That being said, there have been several long overdue features in macOS that came after Jobs was gone that customers begged for for a long time. The MacBook Pro is another example of where Apple clearly listened to the customer and not their initial vision. They brought back some ports, made it thicker, and brought back the old keyboard.
Like I said, I think the removal of lightning for the iPhone was on the roadmap, they just aren’t being given the time to see it through. I’m sure they’re planning 5 years ahead internally.
I don’t see why it’s them or us. If Apple (or any company) can make the customers happy, people will by more products and create more positive word of mouth, which is good for Apple. Generally the most successful companies aren’t the ones sacrificing their customers for a couple extra cents. That may work in the short term, but not over decades.
I think Jobs said it pretty well…
Young Jobs - https://youtu.be/48j493tfO-o
Old Jobs - https://youtu.be/XmRNIGqzuRI
I think I’d be more accepting of side loading than full blown 3rd party app stores (of course one will inevitably lead to the other, unless there is a lot of sandboxing going on). Something you need to enable in the settings and jump through some hoops to do. It would open up things for some interesting use cases, but be enough trouble that no developer would do that unless it was absolutely necessary.
Back on the v1 iPhone I installed Cydia and messed with all that. As the platform matured it seemed less and less of a thing. I do agree with you on the AppleTV. Allowing things like Xbox Game Steam, or various other things like that, would put it into a whole new class of device. It could be what OnLive wanted to be, but more.
One thing that I find kind of funny is the first iPhone didn’t have 3rd party apps, as you mention. The answer for them was web apps, which everyone rolled their eyes at. However, here we are 16 years later and frameworks like Electron are essentially just wrapping web apps to run on the desktop. Maybe that web app thing wasn’t totally wrong, but just a little ahead of it’s time. I don’t like Electron apps, but I will say they have made Linux on the desktop a lot more viable for the average user.
I guess I have a lot of mixed opinions on this. I just like my phone to be a tool. A portal into some things while I’m away from a proper computer. I don’t use it as my primary device like so many do these days. It’s my link to the outside world, my life line while away from home, and thanks to all the 2FA stuff, proof of my identity. I just want it to work, be reliable, and stay out of my way. Complicating the App Store threatens that simplicity. I’ve often said that if I was 16 I’d probably love Android, or the idea of 3rd party everything on iOS, as I’d have the time to tinker and no real risk if something breaks. Not being 16, I have different priorities and I like that there is an option in the market that serves those priorities rather well.
the only explanation possible is that using Lighting is profitable for them
I gave you another possible explanation in the comment you replied to. They have a whole product line to move and the left iPhone for last, because it has the most impact, and if they leave it for last, it will have less consumer impact. Why not assume good intentions when there is a reasonable explanation?
If it was all about the money, why would they have used the Qi standard for their wireless charging? Why would they have gone all in on USB-C on MacBooks, facing a ton of backlash, to push that port when everyone else was hedging by just including 1 USB-C port at best? Sure they make money from Lightning, but it’s likely a rounding error on their bottom line.
It’s also not a bad thing to have some cable certifications. I’ve seen tear downs of cheap 3rd party charging bricks, or tests of cheap cables, and they’re all really bad and out of spec. They’re cheap for a reason. Maybe that will lead to device damage, maybe it won’t, but I’d rather not risk a $700 phone over saving $10 on a non-certified cable/charger that cuts corners. It happened to my sister, I went against my judgement and bought her a 3rd party cable she asked for instead of the Apple one I thought she should get. A few months later she called me crying because he phone wouldn’t charge anymore. I felt like shit, even though I technically just got her what she wanted.
macOS can be seen as a test bed here. The App Store come pre-installed, but developers have dropped it in favor of going with their own payment systems, updates, etc.
On the Mac I don’t think it should be locked down. I guess I view something like the iPhone differently than an actual computer.
I do remember the 30-pin connector and how up in arms people were about the change. As it’s not just the cables, it was also all the accessories. When they went from 30-pin to lightning they said they designed it to last a long time and it wasn’t going to be something they changed frequently, because they understood the impact. The EU is now trying to force their hand on that. 30-pin was made for the iPod. The iPhone does a lot more and has different needs. I’m not saying we never need change, just that it shouldn’t be up to the government of 1 little part of the world to dictate what that change is.
Also, not needing to buy any new stuff means less trash than forcing people to buy new stuff. I assume that’s why the iPhone seems to be going last in Apple’s move to USB-C. If they move their lower volume stuff over and give it some time, a good number of people will already have other USB-C stuff they can use the new iPhone with, rather than leading with their highest volume product and forcing everyone to buy new instead of reusing other stuff they may have gotten along the way from other stuff they were already buying. I still know people who don’t have any USB-C stuff.
If I choose to get my apps from the App Store which has apps vetted by Apple to give me a better chance at avoiding malware or apps that will cause issues, and a 3rd party option is introduced, it is likely that some apps I use will leave the App Store and will be forced to either risk the 3rd party option or live without the app I’ve come to rely on.
It also means to find an app I may need to search multiple places to try and find it. If I find it in multiple places I then need to choose where to install it from. Then, I need to deal with updates from multiple sources. If payments are involved, I need to then trust my card information with multiple sources. When my card into changes, I will need to update multiple sources. All of this seems worse for a person who just wants their phone to work and stay out of their way.
When bouncing between Android phones and everyone is picking a different style of USB, I can see where that is a problem.
However, those using an iPhone tend to stick to iPhone and the connector has been consistent for over a decade. People have a lot of those cables from 10 years of phones. For those in the Apple ecosystem, it’s more of a standard than micro-USB ever was.
It was also created at a time when USB was a complete mess. Having reversible port was really nice, and Lightning was the only real game in town. Thus, Apple users had a better experience for a decade, because they didn’t need to follow the rest of the industry that had an annoying 1-way port (I think it also had to do with trying to deliver audio over USB to headphones, when they were getting rid of the headphone jack. I remember reading about that, but I’m no audiophile). Now they need to change at the drop of a hat because Android decided USB-C is the way? USB-C is also becoming a mess, with a bunch of “standards” all hiding behind the same port, which is going to be confusing for consumers if/when they run into it.
I want USB-C on the iPhone, just not like this. And to be honest, with MagSafe, I rarely plug my phone in these days. It wouldn’t surprise me if Apple is planning to get rid of all the ports. There have been rumors to this effect. If that was the plan, do they need to keep a port around just because the EU says so, or can they remove it, because at least they don’t have a non-USB-C port?
How is making me throw away all my old charging cables and buy a bunch of new ones better for the environment?
As much as I might like some of these features, I don’t thing legislating them is the right thing to do. Politicians are not technologists, nor do they have any insight into future product roadmaps. Not to mention, this is going to create an insane amount of e-waste when everyone’s old chargers become useless with their new phone.
“Everything must have USB-C” sounds great right now, but what about when it gets old and slow or something better comes a long that is worth the switch… we have to wait for the EU to tell everyone it’s ok and make a transition plan for the whole industry?
If we had to wait for governments to produce all new technology, we’d still be living in 1960.
Apple has clearly been in the middle of a USB-C transition for a while now. The MacBook Pro going all-in on USB-C probably did more for mass adoption than any other single company. I’m sure they had a plan for the iPhone as well. The EU didn’t need to try and force their hand here.
I’d also that 3rd party app stores provide less consumer choice. Right now I have the choice of a platform with a walled garden or one with 3rd party app stores. The EU is trying to take away that choice.
The one on the right is standing in front of a building that just ends with a straight vertical line. I think it looks like one pic at first because the colors are all so light that it kind of blends together.
Maybe the person doesn’t enjoy killing, but they realize that even passing the decision on is a choice and they are responsible for everyone on that track after they passed. And at some point, they will be added to that track as well. It then becomes a very primal question, are you willing to kill to save your own life?
This could also be setup in a way where no choice leads the train to automatically run down the doubling side, so when there are no people left to add, the entire human population is automatically wiped out.
I agree that the first person in line choosing to kill one is the right thing to do, as hard as it may be for them, they can take comfort in knowing they potentially saved millions of lives, as likely their own.