It has an iPhone app store monopoly.

Apple is in a weird position here. People actually spend money on iOS apps because they trust the store. People only trust Apple App Store because Apple exerts control over it. This suit wants people to buy their apps, but to destroy the control Apple has that makes people actually trust sending money to developers.

I mean, they had something like this on 8 bit computers in the 80s. Much simpler interface, much less refined, much less capabilities. But this is a massive refinement, not something groundbreaking.

This very neatly ties into that awful video where they had projectile vomiting on viewing someone's search history. I was just too blind to see how having retching and heaving and a floor full of puke was really the perfect way to speak technically

Capitalism is breaking down. Not in the way Marx expected.

Capitalism is a feedback loop. The wage outputs become the purchase inputs. We also have people trying to lessen the wages, which would reduce the resulting inputs, which would cause it to fail. Up until now, we "fixed" that by having growth that exceeded the loss of the wage destruction. A sort of virtuous cycle.

But now, where is the growth going to come from? We had a big boost from globalization, but even China is becoming saturated. The earth can't take exponential population growth forever. This current papering over of the problem is "have people accept getting less, and blame them for getting less". You're lazy unless you drive for Uber where they don't even give you benefits. But even this will run out. Your auto-driving Uber will send money to Cali, but it will not buy from your local hardware store. Your McD ordering kiosk will displace a cashier but will not buy from Barnes and Noble (if they even exist then). We think we're being clever by cutting the outputs, but we're also reducing inputs. I have no idea where that will come from. We're not even asking the right questions. We're just "disrupt disrupt disrupt". what if we're discussing the foundations of capitalism itself? No one wants to answer that. Prisonner's dilemma and all that.

I think your phrasing is off.. it can't quite eat up more than the 32 bit address space.

Countless? Really? how hard is it to count the number of people who called Emergency services but later lost their lives because of incomplete location data. Yes, any number more than zero is bad, but don't make Apple out to be Vlad the Impaler or Pol Pot here.

They are neither. They are a design company. The luxury came later.

There are android phones out there that are, (don't get value-judgment on imperfect, its a neutral term here) imperfect substitutes for iPhones. yet people still buy them. No one is forced to. There is added value to iPhone for some people. Just because you don't see that doen't mean they're a marketing company. They make their own chips. They're the ones that finally got a GUI working when the PARC people couldn't get it to quite work cleanly. They're the one that got multi-touch working on a mass market device when everything else was two guys in a lab. They've done real things.

You never took economics...

lets pretend the car is 7501 dollars. Customers currently can buy it for $1 with the Feds giving $7500. Now they have to pay $7501. Yes, that price hike will affect sales. Yes, Tesla had government support. The fact the checks weren't inked to Musk doesn't matter.

And they didn't even mention the first name was Phoenix?

Hmm, and then there was the naming controversy. Phoenix became Firebird, along with Thunderbird and Sunbird. Then, Firefox.

The naming things always kind of embodied the "close, but not quite there"-ness of FireFox. Hmm, and Thunderbird and Sunbird are dead. Just seems like a lot of work but a lot of wasted effort in places.

My uncle is pretty sharp. He had a non-working toilet because he didn't know how to make the chain from the lever to the flap valve shorter. It was "broken" for months. A 1 minute fix.

Not in ios10 or 11, at least not with newer phones. Slide to Unlock is gone. Tap home to unlock. If you have a new-ish phone with new-ish touchID it's almost instant.

You can slide to take a pic. Not a full phone unlock, you can just take pics, and see the pic in the sequence you just took.

That said, yes, iphones are slower than a dedicated device. Both starting, and per pic. Apple's Live Photos are an effort to help the lag some.

That said, the old quote "the best camera is the one in your hand" cuts pretty true. Remember that a lot of the early greats had what we'd now think of as really bad gear. Brassai had slow film slow lenses and a rickety tripod. I still buy his pics of Montmartre (as postcards).

The feature, which mimics a card swipe, enables Samsung Pay to work on any card swiping machine

My guess is the vendor mag reader doesn't know how to do the handshake which does all the security stuff that the chip enables. Meaning at some point MasterAmexVisaCard will jack up fees for swiped transactions to make them uneconomical. Apple chose right here, and chose the tech with more future ahead of it.

Obviously he's talking about variable costs, marginal costs, and not including fixed costs. He's not wrong. He's not particularly right either, but he's not wrong.

My wife is Taiwanese... so Taiwan econ stuff actually somewhat resonates with me. HTC is going down the tubes., Now, you have a vicious cycle... losing money, so lets do desperate stuff, that alienates more people, so we get more desperate...

Bye Bye htc, sadly.