Quartz video + article on (the, apparently present state of) Apple insouciance

Post #414,988 by Ashton 10/30/16 5:07:17 PM 10/30/16 5:12:14 PM Reply	Quartz video + article on (the, apparently present state of) Apple insouciance Here for video of Jobs' prescient observation. Accompanying Qz article ... Steve Jobs would probably be rather upset with what Apple has become today PS: Oh, at bottom of that last: an interview with 'Ol Pepsico-Scully/tunnel-vision-slayer of all techno-hopes. {{sigh}} Ye Gods Up There: be more fucking-Careful with whom you pick to replace any of the Smarter folk ... the teeming masses are surrounded by a plethora of midgets. Nice Job mo-fo: most of your current crop of thinking-meat-Products ..can barely chew and walk gum. (Been hitting the Laudanum a lot, Bunkie?) Edited by Ashton Oct. 30, 2016, 05:12:14 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #414,991 by Another Scott 10/30/16 6:07:26 PM 10/30/16 6:07:26 PM Reply	Dunno. Jobs wasn't much of a "revolutionary product" guy after the iPhone 1 and iPad 1. The Mac withered as a platform (years between updates) on his watch. He loved selling people music (remember how happy he was when he finally got the Beatles catalog?), and "apps", and didn't seem to have any problem at all with his tablets being so RAM constrained that they'd have to hit the network whenever one switched back to a different web window. The iPhone 7 (still) has 1/2 or less of the RAM of its competitors (but you'd never know that reading Apple's specs for it). Jobs had a vision that eventually panned out in a big way. So did Tesla. But they both showed that they were human, rather than invincible technical gurus, as well. I think Steve would be pretty happy with Apple's dominance now. Probably a lot happier than the head of Samsung after the Galaxy Note 7 debacle! ;-) My $0.02. Cheers, Scott.
Post #415,117 by Ashton 11/4/16 5:48:01 AM 11/4/16 5:48:01 AM Reply	Well, for starters: Just the iPhone clearly seduced Millions/such that: apple could now head for $Trillions ... how many such "ideas" does he need? ... merely to be a Biz-immortal. Now Timmy coasts along on that huge momentum; Apple "Cars!?" ... Hah. (The bloody-maya has the entire species in thrall--to go for KISS, here--so these shiny trinkets are possibly as far away as we've gotten yet (??) ..from any appreciation of what "Consciousness" just might be "about". Physics is fun, but the metaphysics of any old jour is Harder. I wot.) That said, I seem to have joined the lunatic-masses, via an add-on to a Credo client's contract: and an iSix (no -S, nor [+] and a laughable 16 GB (the Catch, of course: but it's New and was 'free' to the deal. I shall have Qs for you already-infected IGM-majority.. and already I see that "making phone calls" is prolly the lowest $usage Then there's This.. re the youngest-z0mbies amongst us: file under {yet moar} Unintended Consequences of 'an insanely-Grreat-Biz-idea', Eh??
Post #415,132 by Another Scott 11/4/16 10:51:30 AM 11/4/16 10:51:30 AM Reply	Welcome to the Borg! :-) My step-mom has an iPhone 6 Plus that she loves - mainly because it's so much easier to read than her previous one (iPhone 4?). J is thinking about getting something bigger than her iPhone 5S when the time comes, but she is in the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" camp when it comes to new electronics. Too late! 10 technologies that have already destroyed civilization!!11 ;-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #415,147 by a6l6e6x 11/4/16 12:31:03 PM 11/4/16 12:31:03 PM Reply	Got my wife an iPhone 7 recently. It's a big step from an iPhone 4S. She uses more data than I do. So, using LTE vs 3G is just great! Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #415,183 by Ashton 11/5/16 7:51:11 AM 11/5/16 7:51:11 AM Reply	Jawohl.. Yup, the Prince was right (in that scripted aside to Mozart..) EVIL seems to have been guaranteed the ultimate Victor. Because: *Too Many ~~Notes!~~ ... WORDS!! ensued.* PS: Having noticed (in a SE -vs- i6 comparo, that visual Real Estate trumps {there's Never Enough memory anyway} I opted to burn a C-note because that got me a raft of goodies, like . . . . . 6S Plus 32 GB, a BIGGER screen, "3-D" enhanced touch (more useful alt-menus), a camera almost as good as in the SE ... meaning: apparently a layer of xsistors in the SE (for superb infra-red performance) was $-cost-omitted in 6S == perhaps arabesqued now? via such as FLIR for thermal viewing.. [But if'n you got one of these things mainly to be a talkin to many persons' shell-likes every day: the SE would be the superior thing], smaller and you don't need a snapshot camera any more/unless becoming a Pro. The thing should arrive shortly. {{sigh}} So now I have to discover just w.t.f. one of these suckers IS ackshully Good-for. One aspect looks promising--discovered while charging i6 via iMac USB--a pop-up informed me that the iPhone had a new OS-build ready to drop in, if I cared to partake. That cable ain't just a charging thing; it's a bloody Vulcan mind-meld. Too. Clearly: Timmy is rapidly arranging for the interconnectivity of All their gadgetry, (with Siri vamping around on next iMac build: OS X: now ~~annual~~ Nah soon a monthly Re-Do, I wot. One must Note about that strumpet, though: absolutely Everything you say' to this droid SHALL be transmitted to Apple-Inc-Gmbh-LLC-SNOOPS-all. So, happily I'll say, "Siri, call Suzy Q on her cel-fone". And she Does/with alacrity. But having her compose a text message ?? {say} would demand self-censorship, (though it would save poking fat fingers on a bogus non-keyboard.) I give this experiment 50/50 odds. But it's still cute as a bug's ear, for all its malevolently addictive $$bizness-Intentions.
Post #415,184 by drook 11/5/16 9:46:41 AM 11/5/16 9:46:41 AM Reply	If this is your first smartphone ... or first recently ... You'll be truly amazed by both the screen and the camera. -- Drew
Post #415,186 by Ashton 11/5/16 3:48:20 PM 11/5/16 3:48:20 PM Reply	Indeed so, I am hoping to discover--in the 6S+ that--the 3D pressure sensor does emulate the now missing: right-click-sorta better menu disclosure of w.t.f. new ALT-modes are [now] available. But never are er, intuitively obvious. (But I have to put the sucker aside, maybe for some days at a time.. as chores must be done and, one needs to look around as the world-around may.. or May-not ...? crash and burn in a few diurnal cycles, upcoming. Y'know? Prey for my sole! (just noted that these outside grunge-shoes are developing holes in their bottoms) {sigh} add-to-listicle.

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