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I mean I haven't held it but how is a Sapper-esque stoic black rectangle bad or ugly?

Only thing unappealing about it to me is the logo

It doesn't clean the floor, so there's no practical function. It's not an MP3 player that follows you around or a Siri-like assistant

What an utterly joyless way to look at the world.

Real dogs make plenty of noises and smells too to be fair.

Doesn't this predate Shazam? Isn't it more a case that Shazam is WhatTheFont for music?

Who really loses out in this scenario though?

It sure as hell isn't going to be Nvidia who hold all the cards as far as CUDA based computing goes.

People who want to use this tech will go where the tech is, people even switch away from Mac to Windows to access this tech.

It was designed for normal people to be able to get in touch with famous people or vice versa

Not so sure about this. Wasn't it just designed to broadcast messages among people who knew each other. The celeb focus came later.

I'd also say it doesn't help that your onboarding focuses greatly on what celebs you're going to engage with on the service.

I feel TF2 has a place in peoples hearts so it keeps getting wheeled out in this debate way more times than it's deserved these days (especially considering Valve compromised both the art direction and coherence in recent years).

All 3 examples here are excellent but I want to say I know a lot of people hate on Destiny but the art direction, environmental art, creature design is all magical in terms of tech and results. Honestly feels like concept art brought to life and anyone dismissing it and not even giving it a chance just are missing out on some seriously impressive visuals resting perfectly between realistic and stylistic.

Wonder what the harmful emissions from my flat and walk to work were vs the van. /s

Smug statements about how wasteful people not living in these fringe conditions are always remind me of the Soylent founder lecturing about how doing laundry wastes water while also reordering all his clothes from china when they get dirty. [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/op-ed-how-i-gave-up-...

Try it in a few more apps it's the choice of the app dev so basically random.

Not that a user should have to know "only enter your password into the black keyboard", which can also be faked mind.

Technology Will Save Us ship a similar product that is more gender neutral if anyone is interested.

Actually think in this space the norm is actively going gender neutral.

I did similar with a good 6 years between and with two different emails on different domains and it's friends suggestions both in it's own app and Instagram (not linked to FB account but sharing an email) manage to reference people I only ever knew during the time of the first account and never even interacted with on Facebook.

e.g a guy I interned for 10 years ago who I never spoke to/added on FB keeps showing up in my Insta suggestions. It's actually a bit unnerving and makes me worry who my account is suggested to.

Sad that I hear something complained about on certain Apple podcasts and that little qualm of that host is fixed magically a release or two later while real users are ignored.

Quicktime 7 is one of the first things I install on a new mac because it still opens a bunch of files and does things that Quicktime X cannot.

Quicktime X can't even open a plain .mov file without "Converting" it.

Too many product managers these days who don't actually understand or engage with the product and instead think they can create from reading metrics tea leaves alone.

Not sure why the article needed that smug condescending tone, not everyone is a tech blogger who upgrades their phone every year, plenty of people are still using sub iPhone 7 devices which as the article states DID include a radio hardware just not connected, yet the article seems to focus on how absurd it is that someone could be using an old device.

Pretty much, Jobs thoughts on sales/marketing people driving companies more relevant than ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AxZofbMGpM

and the Mac Mini is embarrassing

Embarrassing is an understatement, I'd say it's overtly consumer hostile https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/1000779/large_7cbe8b3f... 2012 Mac Mini on the left; 2014 Mac Mini on the right. The unscrewable bottom was one of the championed features when this design initially launched

Someone there has some kind of vision, doesn't mean it's a good one but there was a definite attempt to shove most MBP customers into using iPad Pro and the Mac Pro line probably only survived by a very slim margin.

It's pretty obvious the iMac Pro was supposed to replace the Mac Pro lineup (despite having all the same problems) then at the last minute they decided to start working on a New New Mac Pro.

Not sure who has this vision if it's Tim, Ive or someone else but whoever it is they don't respect the idea of an actual computer like Jobs did. From what has been reported Cook doesn't even use a laptop anymore.

Am I the only one sceptical about if these scores actually translate to true computing power?

If these things can outperform on passive cooling why are we not seeing people building farms out of them with active cooling.

This and TiltBrush are the only reasons I'm considering a headset at all, tried 3D sculpting unsuccessfully in 2D so would love to try it in 3D.

Medium looks excellent but yeah not amazing enough to outweigh being owned by FB. Still pretty disappointed VR tech innovations are just being locked up into proprietary camps.

I'll never understand the point of an encrypted service attached to a phone number.

Are they loners? Not sure religious extremist terrorism is equatable to the solo nutjob unabomber-style terrorist.

Is venture capital a requirement to start a company?

My comment obviously implied adding the sensors to make it work, Surface Laptops use IR as well as far as I know...

My point is more that why make a big deal about shipping dead tech to the laptop if this truly is what they consider the future and a better system.

From the shot it looks like it's a complete side view so should be visible.

In reality it's probably that the camera is positioned just right so that it's obscured.

They did the same thing when they made the iMacs skinny, just show them at the exact angle to hide the giant butt on them and make them look razor thin.

Why add Touch ID to the laptop range which already had cameras when you're going to remove it from your next phone.

Could have just made the laptop camera up to scratch for this like Surface books are.

I feel we're being sold a compromise and until they failed to get a Touch ID sensor below that screen this was plan B.

Why on the X when they were made today on the 7....

Yeah but if you actually want a powerful machine it's your only option these days. Apple don't sell anything remotely at the level of PC hardware, even if money is no object.

I got forced into going Windows for GPU powered 3D rendering because Apple isn't interested in my business.

Can't really put the deep learning genie back in the bottle at this point. Even if this research wasn't released, someone who wanted to do this would be able to figure it out eventually.

This is just the first step, things are about to get much worse.

I thought I'd get used to it but after struggling with the dongle at first to use my preferred headphones (Cheapish Sony earbuds that I've found sound better than apple and last 2 years), then losing the dongle and resorting to earpods.

I now just carry two pairs of headphones everywhere, one for my Apple laptop and one for my Apple iPhone.

Even tried the Beats X, W1 chip was all hype it's barely any different from regular bluetooth and juggling with then UI to turn headphones on and off is more tedious than just plugging something in and living with a cable, so those are collecting dust now.

Didn't want to buy another dongle because that would just prove to Apple that people are happy with the dongle.