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They do exist.
https://gizmodo.com/buttplug-hacker-talks-security-consent-and-why-he-hac-1837252628
Saved that link for a year and a half just knowing it'd be relevant one day.

It’s basically the difference between fixed costs and variable costs. 
 
Increasing the specs means that your hardware costs more, which in turn translates into higher prices, or lower profits. 
 
Developing faster flash storage would allow Sony to provide faster performance at the same cost (or even lower). It would cost more upfront, but assuming Sony can sell enough units, it would eventually pay for itself. Not to mention that the technology can also be used in future game consoles. 
 
Not to mention that is this means that flash storage is virtually indistinguishable from ram, so that sounds like a lot of cost savings down the road. 

Linus would never admit it in a pro-tech channel, but it seems like current laptop models might be over serving the market. It seems like the average user simply does not need the power that the latest hardware offers. As build quality gets better, there is even less incentive to upgrade. 
 
The MacBook Air continues to sport a great trackpad and keyboard, standard ports, MagSafe, as well as run macOS, which is really what people need for browsing the web and using office. 
 
Impressive how timeless a 2010 design continues to be today. 

I think google apps are as optimised on iOS as you can get, given that they will never get to enjoy system integration with the OS, and Apple is content to keep them at arm's length so they can favour their own stock apps. 

Maybe it's a way to distract themselves from the shortcomings of their own platform. I mean, windows phone is  dead. Ventures like Hololens have very little consumer appeal. I had no idea that Mixer even existed until they signed Ninja on. While financially successful, Microsoft seems to have very little mindshare or influence outside of the corporate world, where it's probably inertia keeping them from switching away from office than anything else. 
 
I don't understand it either, and I probably never will, but you know what? It doesn't matter in the greater scheme of things. Apple isn't going anywhere in the near future, and they will continue to make the products that I love to use and which work so well from me, from the iphone to the Apple Watch to AirPods to the iPad and the iMac. And prosper for it. 
 
Let the haters hate. It will make absolutely zero difference in the end. 

Maybe it's a way to distract themselves from the shortcomings of their own platform. I mean, windows phone is  dead. Ventures like Hololens have very little consumer appeal. I had no idea that Mixer even existed until they signed Ninja on. While financially successful, Microsoft seems to have very little mindshare or influence outside of the corporate world, where it's probably inertia keeping them from switching away from office than anything else. 
 
I don't understand it either, and I probably never will, but you know what? It doesn't matter in the greater scheme of things. Apple isn't going anywhere in the near future, and they will continue to make the products that I love to use and which work so well from me, from the iphone to the Apple Watch to AirPods to the iPad and the iMac. And prosper for it. 
 
Let the haters hate. It will make absolutely zero difference in the end. 

He is one of the few people (the other being Steve Jobs) who showed that design can matter in the mass market, and that there are people willing to pay for outstanding design and integration. For the longest time, the conventional wisdom in many tech industries was that design wasn’t important. The end result was shitty software and shitty hardware. Apple’s success has upended the industry’s value system, and today, almost all of Apple’s competitors value design more today than they did a decade ago.
 
Ive's legacy lives on, not just at Apple, but the entire tech industry. 

In a sense, yes, if you actually understood what it is that makes Apple tick, and what it is that Apple product users love about apple products. In the eyes of Steve Jobs and Jony Ive, perfect products are made by cutting out everything not absolutely required in the design. To them, it's about creating products that are cut down to their absolute most basic form, with nothing standing between the user and the device. The products aren't about having the most features, or being the "most useful", they're about distilling out the purest mixture of form and function possible.
 
That's why so many techies continue to be baffled by Apple's success. People with an engineering mindset don't understand design, and so when they see Apple's incredible success, they just can't wrap their brains around the fact that it's good design that leads to this success. So instead, they convince themselves that Apple only makes money because they're a cult that brainwashes millions of people through product marketing. That's the only way that people who don't understand design are able to make sense of things.

Don’t know if it’s up LTT territory, but I am wondering if they might like to try to edit videos using lumafusion to see how it stacks up to desktops. 

The issue isn’t that nobody wants android tablets. It’s that nobody wants high-end android tablets. it’s crazy that there are people willing to pay top dollar for the latest ipad pros that cost more than a mid-end laptop, but that seems to be where the market has settled on. 
 
Maybe LinusTech should do a series on trying to edit video on an ipad and see how it fares against their top-end rigs? 

The issue isn’t that nobody wants android tablets. It’s that nobody wants high-end android tablets. it’s crazy that there are people willing to pay top dollar for the latest ipad pros that cost more than a mid-end laptop, but that seems to be where the market has settled on. 
 
Maybe LinusTech should do a series on trying to edit video on an ipad and see how it fares against their top-end rigs? 

Until the next iOS software update, I guess. 

Google really just doesn't know how to support Android on anything that isn't a phone.
 
It's still wild that, to this day, there's no way to limit browsing the Play Store to just tablet-native apps.  You'll occasionally see a section, but you're supposed to 'just know' that an app has tablet support.  And instead of encouraging developers to write full interfaces designed for tablets, Google just said "here, add a few lines of code so your phone app scales."  You end up with something that's only marginally better than running the smartphone version.
 
I'd also say Google hasn't done enough to foster development of Android tablets.  Not that it can force its partners to make the hardware it wants, but it feels like Google was content to let Android tablets devolve into the "race to the bottom" strategy you see in the Windows PC market.  So there are lots of sub-$100 glorified Netflix viewers, but few mid-range or high-end tablets you'd actually want to use for more.  Google basically handed a large chunk of the tablet market to Apple on a silver platter.
 
The kicker is seeing that Google does similar things for smartwatches, for TVs... it offers only the barest of support, and it lets its entries in the category languish while competitors (Apple and Samsung in smartwatches, LG and Samsung in TVs) have free rein.  In that sense, it's a bit like Microsoft was with Windows Mobile -- it assumes that a monopoly in one area automatically translates to dominance in others, and doesn't realize that it actually needs to put in effort.

It’s almost like Apple expected iPhone sales to go down  

It's a little less for Apple Music. They have a deal for $99 a year, which you can pay using iTunes cards, which tend to go on discount every now and then. 
 
But to the main point, I guess that I am not so much paying for music, as I am paying for the convenience of being able to stream any sort of music I want at any time. It also saves me the hassle of managing a music library, or keeping them locally on my smartphone. 
 
You are right in that I do tend to listen to the same songs over and over again, and maybe it's cheaper if I purchased all these songs individually, but then algorithm-generated playlists such as top 40 or chill mix wouldn't be possible if they were only allowed to use songs that I own, because I am never going to discover and purchase individual songs on my own. I am not the sort of person who will carefully follow up on every new song release, try them out and curate my own playlist. I tend to just spam whatever the top 40 list or easy hits are, often as background noise for whatever task I am doing at the moment, it's just easier to me to leave it to the AI to decide what song to play next rather than consciously decide what that will be. 

Taking their opinions into consideration doesn’t mean bending over backwards to accommodate them. 
 
This feels to me like a very bad precedent. The US enjoys the peace that they do precisely because they have a strong army who is able to ward off would-be threats, the very reason why these critics are able to wax lyrical in the comfort of their own homes and offices. 
 
If you want to be able to enjoy the peace and stability that you currently do, the only way is for your country to be strong enough to stand up to any foe no matter how strong. Suggesting that your company not do business with the military out of some misguided notion that you are helping to save lives is shortsighted and selfish. 
 
They want to prove a point? They are free to resign and walk out the door. 

That's precisely what I pay Apple to do - gatekeep their platform at a time when the alternative (Android) won't. 
 
I think Walt Mossberg said it best. 
 
 

That's precisely what I pay Apple to do - gatekeep their platform at a time when the alternative (Android) won't. 
 
I think Walt Mossberg said it best. 
 
 

Yeah. Apple’s attention seems to be on iOS devices and wearables these days. 

I think at this point, it will be easier to tech companies to just not serve the Australian market. Not to mention that any Australian company will be met with distrust. This move will likely end up hurting Australia the most. 

I think at this point, it will be easier to tech companies to just not serve the Australian market. Not to mention that any Australian company will be met with distrust. This move will likely end up hurting Australia the most. 

I think at this point, it will be easier to tech companies to just not serve the Australian market. Not to mention that any Australian company will be met with distrust. This move will likely end up hurting Australia the most. 

I think at this point, it will be easier to tech companies to just not serve the Australian market. Not to mention that any Australian company will be met with distrust. This move will likely end up hurting Australia the most. 

It’s funny until someone crosses the line, like possibly hacking government services (like someone mentioned above). It’s easy to get carried away with this sort of stuff, and I just hope no one gets hurt as a result of all this. 

I am surprised the speakers didn’t start by belting out bich lagsagna or something...?