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mircea_popescu: and the argument that it "beats words" is not unlike the argument that clang "beats lisp" because "
apple ipad!!11"
BingoBoingo: How can
Apple buy Skylake for Macbook if not new instructions with -opt appended
pete_dushenski: "For all that it appears to be a JS abomination running on the iPhone, the Google Mail application routinely trounces the
Apple Mail application in searching, rendering, speed, and more or less everything one would want from an email application on the phone." << beats desktop (eg. thunderbird) handily as well. web-gmail just... wins.
mircea_popescu: so everything starts as gpl, welcomes any sucker foss head to contribute, then "progresses" to a mit license and hey, maybe
apple wants to buy it!
jurov: "Secondly, we want to release a new version of Electrum for mobile devices and tablets. In order to make Electrum available in various app stores (such as Microsoft's Windows Store or
Apple's App Store) we cannot keep the restrictive GPL license, as publishing Electrum on some of these stores may break the terms of the GPL."
ben_vulpes: i don't even know what the right version *would* be, beyond "not
apple's"
funkenstein_: <mircea_popescu>
apple is a monopoly in the sense qq.com is a monopoly. you... never heard of it. <-- i was surprised to learn recently tencent was a major player in handling the exchange to fiat-bank segment for e.g. btcchina
mircea_popescu: and the world will say "omfg
apple is finished. what a crater."
mircea_popescu: nobody gives a flying fuck about making desktops when discussing the
apple failure.
mircea_popescu: you were talking about some obscure desktop thing
apple perhaps still makes ?!
pete_dushenski: gray-haired men, yes, buy new crapple. that's it. walk into '
apple store' and look who is at 'genius bar'
mircea_popescu:
apple is a monopoly in the sense qq.com is a monopoly. you... never heard of it.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 15:43:30; mircea_popescu: oh check that out, queergender consensus is slowly coallescing that
apple fails in 2016.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 15:43:30; mircea_popescu: oh check that out, queergender consensus is slowly coallescing that
apple fails in 2016.
mircea_popescu: oh check that out, queergender consensus is slowly coallescing that
apple fails in 2016.
☟︎☟︎ BingoBoingo: Rush Limbuagh also does a lot of
Apple product placement
ascii_butugychag: '
apple always wanted an os' -- is mircea_popescu posting from 1995 ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone can conceive of any reason NOT to have an
apple-microsoft merger ?
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 13:02:12; mircea_popescu: heck,
apple made the concept of "filesystem" go away, they somehow sell tablets with no filesystem interraction exposed.
mircea_popescu: heck,
apple made the concept of "filesystem" go away, they somehow sell tablets with no filesystem interraction exposed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you're telling me the
apple's up in the tree as if i was the one that put it there.
assbot: Logged on 06-01-2016 21:44:59; pete_dushenski: "
Apple Inc shares dropped below $100 for the first time in nearly five months on Wednesday following reports of slowing shipments of the tech company's iPhone 6S and 6S Plus." << but can still buy all of russia, right guise ?
pete_dushenski: "
Apple Inc shares dropped below $100 for the first time in nearly five months on Wednesday following reports of slowing shipments of the tech company's iPhone 6S and 6S Plus." << but can still buy all of russia, right guise ?
☟︎ pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: right. but i... use model m. thus, no locking problems. only
apple keyboard i have is ~10 years old, white thingy. also no prob.
copypaste: and "nobody" does do it because
apple both makes it difficult and it makes no economic sense, an iphone is essentially a rasberry pi with a screen and so on - small computers have their uses
copypaste:
apple also ships boxes where the batteries cannot be removed and where in less free countries using the box as a general purpose computer is illegal
punkman: for the Unicode Consortium to encode racially diverse versions of emoji characters representing humans or human body parts, and under intense pressure from the public, the media, and consortium members such as
Apple and Google, the Unicode Technical Committee put forward a set of five emoji skin tone modifier characters as a solution."
ascii_rear: mircea_popescu: i'd expect to find it in chinese iron with american firmware (e.g.,
apple keyboard)
thestringpuller: Meanwhile, I want to build a sane computer, but I feel it's futile because Microshit and
Apple ruined everything... :(
thestringpuller: i think shareholders forced
apple to pay dividends cause sitting on as much cash as they allegedly had is extremely risky, cause inflation
mircea_popescu: "By 2009 both men had left
Apple and were working at Cooliris, which makes photo viewing software. Latour set up an office for Cooliris in Japan, and after spending some time traveling through Asia with his girlfriend, he became frustrated with how difficult it was to store and organize all the photos he was taking. He discussed an early idea for a product with Quennesson, who was interested in using math and science t
BingoBoingo: "Interestingly, according to a recent Quora post by Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi, plans to have President Obama 'learn to code' a year earlier were torpedoed by the Healthcare.gov debacle. "We launched the first Hour of Code campaign, in 2013," explains Partovi. "We launched the first Hour of Code on the home page of Google, in every
Apple Store, and we had convinced the President to issue a speech about computer science. But it was
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose with any luck the alien invasion discovers cold fusion as an
apple app or something. you never know, right ? hay mas futuro.
mircea_popescu: "the only
apple app that celebrates women as items in trade"
mircea_popescu: numbers are probably not exact, but they are certainly & guaranteedly closer to reality than the bizarro view where "
apple has 1 dollar means
apple has 1 dollar".
adlai: is the ipad still anything beyond a consumption endpoint for the
Apple, Inc. store?
pete_dushenski: basically, "lower barriers to entry for
apple orchards make the black market for orange orchards larger, thus rape and stds are reduced"
ben_vulpes just witnessed
apple deinstall a second google app from his phone
ben_vulpes idly pulls up the
apple checkout flow in a text only browser, laughs
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Well, you could work your way up starting with an
apple newton, and maybe someday achive an IBM AS/400 ans still further in the future a system/360 "box"
pete_dushenski: turns out the '
apple support communities' aren't complete refuse.
pete_dushenski: haha! solvèd! just had to delete com.
apple.Dictionary.plist. magique, ca.
mircea_popescu: that's what i'm worried about, coal mines and oil wells. not the amazon/google/facebook/
apple babyblue-chip bs.
pete_dushenski: there are ready replacements for
apple, google, amazon, and facebook
mircea_popescu: it all comes down to that ancient "could you buy all of russia by selling
apple stock".
ben_vulpes: "On iOS 9.1, Safari tries to support this, but it is dreadfully buggy. Instead of paging down just less than one screen-height of content, it pages down about 1.5 screen-heights of content." << continuing the "
apple can't make usable software" thread
assbot: Logged on 07-11-2015 22:48:30; asciilifeform: late at night. The home of Thomas Drake, a senior executive at the NSA, was searched, his passport was cancelled and he lived under the threat of 35 years imprisonment for four years, prosecuted under the Espionage Act. He lost his job, his pension and spent everything he owned on his defense lawyer. Today he works at an
Apple store in Maryland and has been able to establish that the only person, who
mircea_popescu: "
apple store has 68765985897 games this year, up 0987985698 from 54897658976598 last year"
mircea_popescu: relevant as the skin color. Not irrelevant for now, not irrelevant "until the economy improves"-- irrelevant forever. The economy doesn't care about intelligence, at all, it doesn't care what you know, merely what you can produce for it. The only thing the English grad is "qualified" for in this economy is the very things s/he is already doing: coffeehouse agitator, Trader Joe's associate,
Apple customer ............
mircea_popescu: "
Apple's fabrication partners appear to be taking the opposite approach, which is to select parts whose tolerance errors cancel each other out." << this is wartime engineering.
mircea_popescu: "You want a non-tyrannical
Apple? Rather than striving to weaken
Apple so that it can be devoured by its brawny-yet-mindless competitors, do something constructive. Experiment with GUIs which don’t trace their descent to Xerox PARC. Forever renounce the idiotic practice of copying Microsoft, that cheap imitation of a cheap imitation. If you are creative, create. Otherwise, strive to find a strong-willed Jobs fig
mircea_popescu: do you not count it as an example of developer eschewing the monopoly ? and to
apple's detriment ?
mircea_popescu: "True, and disingenous. Truly disingenous. They absolutely are "taking responsibility" for the whole stack, but in the opposite direction of that Moldbuggian notion of the modern bureaucracy dissolving both authority and responsibility across the whole organization.
Apple's working quite well to gather the mantle of authority around themselves while avoiding any responsibility at all for the work that they produce."
mircea_popescu: "Phil Schiller,
Apple's longtime senior vice president of worldwide marketing5, is waiting for me when I arrive at Building 3 at the company's Infinite Loop headquarters in Cupertino, California on an unusually warm fall day." motherfucker these idiots.
pete_dushenski: I have only seen conspicuous consumers and
Apple fanboys wearing the things. << i've seen exactly two young men wearing the
apple watch. exactly two. "no one could've predicted!"
mircea_popescu: we would have gotten
apple no matter what, even withoujt computing.
apple is what happens when an ambitious young man gets lucky with the media buys early and then sticks to it.
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 03:47:46; mircea_popescu: "What is actually going on is that
Apple is attempting to signal to the derps who willingly buy their fashion goods that actual rich people also buy those things." etc
mircea_popescu: "What is actually going on is that
Apple is attempting to signal to the derps who willingly buy their fashion goods that actual rich people also buy those things." etc
☟︎ davout: in the same vein "oh you plugged this no-brand iphone cable in? not certified by
apple? fuck you bitch, i'm not charging"
mircea_popescu: "|hey - heres an idea
Apple - rather than enter the world of gimmicks and toys, why dont you spend a little more time sorting out your pathetically expensive and crap server line up?