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phf: "We noticed that you have not yet purchased your
Apple Developer Program. To continue your enrollment, purchase your program now." these people
BingoBoingo: In other news today notorious
Apple Shill Rush Limbaugh is giving away iPad "Pros" on his radio program.
pete_dushenski: this is not unlike google and
apple calling a truce but google continuing to feed patents to samsung with which to continue suing
apple pete_dushenski: (
apple's hq is located at #1 infinite loop in cupertino ca)
assbot: key derivation - Why does the FBI ask
Apple for help to decrypt an iPhone? - Cryptography Stack Exchange ... (
http://bit.ly/1WuksV8 )
mircea_popescu: for instance, my own sizeometer judges
apple as relatively small.
mircea_popescu: why don't you say "clearly nobody gives a shit about
apple or its products - so few vulnerabilities they can almost chase them all down"
mircea_popescu: encapsulation is a dream. you know that. what exactly activates your memory hole to think that
apple "done it" ? usg perfume ? what is it ?
mircea_popescu: this does not bode well for
apple's market value, if true.
mircea_popescu: so in other words, the results of this discussion are - that
apple isn't there yet, but it'd love to pretend like it is, and lazy general usian population / anti-entrepreneurial spirited usian elite will concede the point ot them.
mircea_popescu: "
Apple A8 APL1011 SoC + SK Hynix RAM as denoted by the markings H9CKNNN8KTMRWR-NTH (we presume it is 1 GB LPDDR3 RAM, the same as in the iPhone 6 Plus) ; Qualcomm MDM9625M LTE Modem ; Skyworks 77802-23 Low Band LTE PAD ; Avago A8020 High Band PAD ; Avago A8010 Ultra High Band PA + FBARs ; Skyworks 77803-20 Mid Band LTE PAD ; InvenSense MP67B 6-axis Gyroscope and Accelerometer Combo"
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Who was Jobs to curate my
Apple/Crapple filter?
assbot: Logged on 17-02-2016 15:57:31; Reydevkiwi: just saw a doc on all the backdoors in
apple phone os, then this
phf: also ftr i've never had a paid license. even without it developer.
apple.com used to have all kinds of goodies. source code for all their opensource parts, legacy software, old version of xcode, various specialist tools for debugging, etc.
jurov: hahahahaha
apple specialists are trained to either replace device or exchange for coupons to newe shinier one
mircea_popescu: is this factual btw ? are there more people with unrooted
apple-things than rooted ?
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would you develop for anything but rooted appleware unless
apple was paying your salary+benefits is unclear to me.
mircea_popescu: oh oh this is about putting stuff in the
apple store thing is it.
phf: (in other
apple is dead not so news, i logged into a developer account in hopes of grabbing xcode dmg's direct instead of going through
apple store, and oh boy. what used to be a rather spartan list of downloads, docs, resources has turned into "Click your iPhone app into
Apple Store! Anyone can do it!" complete with giant banners of hip womens holding iphones. where's the docs? where's all the shit? literally the only thing you can do
Reydevkiwi: just saw a doc on all the backdoors in
apple phone os, then this
☟︎ mircea_popescu: note the acceptance of computers in society as an exact mirror of the use of windows and
apple. it's a thing.
mircea_popescu: and just like the
apple shitheads, they have to spend this % of their income on storep roducts
mircea_popescu: they get less than they'd ask for to deliver the same work, if they weren't in the
apple ml.
mircea_popescu: if
apple isn't direct-marketed then what is ? and what's an
apple fan ?
mircea_popescu: it's so bizarre that the usg doesn't embrace herbalife. yes all the arguments against it are solid, but they cut just as much against say,
apple. google.
mircea_popescu: but allowing one rotten
apple in rots the set, and allowing one lazy slavegirl ruins the lot and so on.
mircea_popescu: imagien the productivity gains if all the
apple products were bricked.
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2016 02:35:48; asciilifeform: what did
apple brick 'if you used other parts in it'
assbot: Logged on 09-02-2016 13:52:37; mircea_popescu: anyway, the winds have pointedly turned against
apple. the time when they did that "we'll brick your device if you used other parts in it" thing i'd arbitrarily pick as the jumping the shark moment. but in any case :
apple is for the next decade a company to sell, not to hold and CERTAINLY not to buy.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-02-2016#1400259 <<< i'm with ben and the whole rest of the world on this. you display a very entrenched form of stockholm syndrome. not just here - but in all points of confort. can't move out of dc because it's the only swamp in the world with lid suspension and hotplugging something or the other, gotta use
apple because insanoarcana, etc.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, the winds have pointedly turned against
apple. the time when they did that "we'll brick your device if you used other parts in it" thing i'd arbitrarily pick as the jumping the shark moment. but in any case :
apple is for the next decade a company to sell, not to hold and CERTAINLY not to buy.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: i for instance just bought three of the things, but only because of the
Apple Developer Ratchet
ben_vulpes: not
apple stockholm i suppose nearly so much as usa stockholm
assbot: Logged on 09-02-2016 13:01:24; ben_vulpes: takes a rather lot to override
apple-scale stockholm
ben_vulpes: takes a rather lot to override
apple-scale stockholm
☟︎ punkman: "At least, if you pay
Apple’s premium for
Apple design, you do get more design than you get from Microsoft, Google and other laptop manufacturers. It’s not design created in your interest or for your convenience, but there certainly is plenty of it."
mircea_popescu: but many comments! visits! uniques! Social media! progress!
apple could buy russia!
mircea_popescu: he then thinks to himself : "i could shoot as high or as low as i want, and the bullet wouldstill hit the
apple, because i'm that special, and because that's what man made muskets for and how bullets work etc".
mircea_popescu: now this child sees an
apple in the tree, shoots at it and hits.
punkman: "coming in at a market cap $558 billion after jumping about 8% after the company reported its fourth-quarter earnings, and passing
Apple, which sits at a market cap of $535 billion."
BingoBoingo: <ascii_butugychag> thestringpuller: sacrifice a goat to satan << It's heretic
apple, gotta sacrifice satan to a goat since woz is gone.
ascii_butugychag: BingoBoingo: they gave me this surprisingly spiffy
apple mouse-touchsensor-chimera, but it has gigantic rails in contact with the table, and tremendous static friction. but it turns out that teflon will make it slide aaah so nicely along, like hockey puck..
mircea_popescu: and looky, they gotta get the shareholders excited. remember how jobs built
apple ?
mircea_popescu: dude, i tell you truly - i fucking hate argentina, these people are as dumb as the delicious cows they raise. nevertheless, sitting here atop a grassy knoll, chowing exceptional beef and homemade
apple pies and watching rome burn is a delight for which i am ever thankful.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: Darwin isn't a complete piece of shit eh? So
Apple > Winblows or is this like comparing two bowls of shit and asking which one is less nutty.
assbot: Logged on 24-01-2016 19:32:48; mircea_popescu: do you understand why your
apple "computers" suck ?
assbot: Logged on 24-01-2016 07:46:51; ben_vulpes: it is weekends like this that make me reconsider how i spent my youth as a misspend, when i see trinque and asciilifeform with usable professional non
apple toolchains
ben_vulpes: it is weekends like this that make me reconsider how i spent my youth as a misspend, when i see trinque and asciilifeform with usable professional non
apple toolchains
☟︎ ben_vulpes: in other
apple nyooz, 'el capitan' ships with a new program 'photos'
mircea_popescu: your "push button, i matter" mental model is only applicable here inasmuch as you're hypocritical enough to go "i planted tree, and got an
apple, therefore am in control" sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: the whole thing that company was - a giant
apple store.
pete_dushenski: so
apple can buy russia (tm) (r) but still has to nickel and dime the poor users of its shrinking sandboxes
pete_dushenski: in other nyooz, "
Apple Inc said it will soon start charging for iTunes Radio, its music-streaming service that competes with Pandora Media Inc."