Satya Nadella comes from the services side of microsoft. Not the side that wants to sell everyone a Windows 8 and Office 2015 license.

Microsoft as a company is getting more hip and I really welcome their approach. They're finally catching up to, and surpassing, Apple in terms of sharing software.

Reminder that Apple gave us CUPS, WebKit and a few other things. Apple could finally catch back up and release Swift under the BSD license. If I'm understanding things, Swift is more than just a vanity language. It's a language that's designed to get the most out of LLVM by being designed with LLVM in mind.

UEFI has never been about preventing owners from running free software.

The IBM BIOS from the early 80's is a goddamned dog though.

Market might not be going anywhere but it might not be a healthy place to be.

What's worse is that if things go really poorly the much touted "choice" that PC proponents scream about might go away and many people in practical terms may be forced to pick from some bland options that don't really work because of how cheap things are being made.

It's not the keynote. It's vendor availability and other trade secrets that were given away to other customers for ATI

Because "a while" might be like 10 15 minutes. When all you want to do is unplug, go out and start jamming, that sucks as UX. plus no worrying about what happens if the device writes garbage to the config, or what happens if power is lost mid write, etc.

Want to know how Apple beat Microsoft? There you go.

For one or two songs? Great. For a 5 gig dump?

Yeah.

At the time I don't think that parsing metadata was feasible with out having to sit there and wait until it finished. Forcing users to use a tool to manage their device libraries meant the device never had to deal with the contingency of what happens when a bunch of mp3 files are dumped in.

The fact that the iPod was tied to iTunes meant that Apple didn't have to keep up backwards compatibility for no other reason other than some people didn't want to upgrade. Going with the, "here's how to do it, and if we change it, too bad so sad. Update it to work with the new stuff" still leaves part of the ecosystem up in the air with devs who may leave users wih software that doesn't work.

Being a control freak has its advantages. Everyone else chased commodity products with no differentiation and Apple is now laughing all the way to the bank.

More literally, the CPU in an iPhone owes its legacy to the Newton. The Newton was one of the first devices(maybe some Acorn box had one? Definitely among the first portables) with an ARM chip.

You do know the iPod can mount as a hard drive right? It just relied on iTunes to populate it's metadata and music syncing.

If you don't think that syncing from iTunes is a better UX than manually managing files then you're nuts.

The problem is that very few OEMs are making money if at all. The DIY PC building niche isnt going to save the venerable PC.

Where are the profits? We easily see the market share, but the PC OEM industry has been this tenuous low margin for well over a decade and a half now.

If the PC is here to stay, who's going to build them?

I always thought it had to be something else. Games on android are silky smooth.

If weight and price aren't problems, there are a ton of vendors selling high res displays with nice GPUs and lots of RAM. Including Razor and Apple.

A lot of us don't need powerful Core i whatever or AMD Phenom something or anothers.

Most of us could probably get buy with an ARM laptop running some oddball variant of Linux.

Most of us aren't going to because the experience sucks.

Even though my iPhone 6+ is plenty big, it's still not big enough and the form factor sucks for reading. Somehow 4:3 is really good for bashing out screeds on slashdot, reading reddit, facebook, writing email, etc. Not to mention specialized use cases like art creation tools and so forth.

Just because we don't *need* it doesn't mean that it's not worth buying. I love my iPad.

The reason why they don't just let you link to an mp4 or webm is that they're under this idea that their dynamic quality switching(which in theory should switch based on how good your connection is to youtube, but really just decides to pick between 240p and 1080p because fuck you) and their embedded player is a much better UX.

To that I say, fuck you Google. YouTube embeds on mobile give a direct mp4 stream and it beats the pants off watching it on their app or via their site's viewer.

What the hell kind of feature is, "if we let in poor countries, we could possibly make this whole thing blow up?"

It's a bug, thought of as a feature. Like the Windows 8 start menu.

Even if you give all credence to the idea that this was something that let bankers run off with as much money as possible... that's not what would happen. Bankers would run off with a lot of money... that would become incredibly devalued.