indefensible: john gruber

lmao

"thoughts on" is not necessarily a good way to start a title. this is an apple blogger tic, and yes i know abt jobs, obv

also: one word titles like matt gemmell's "portable" or w/e

that "iphones 6" shit is also ridic

if you have to stick with the super simple format, at least go with "iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus" or something

"layer tennis"

hah i was just looking at that

didn't read past the first sentence of what I presume is saccharine nonsense about Derek Jeter

i don't know if i finished it, but i didn't think it was bad at all

http://i.imgur.com/I2DMUWL.png

sounds very fun

http://blog.fawny.org/2014/10/10/gruberbucks/

http://i.imgur.com/IdaRhNv.png

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/10/09/ive-xiaomi

pretty good gruberzing here

I have a coworker with one of those t-shirts :/

when they say something dumb in a meeting and are wearing the shirt you shd tell them youre filing it to claim chowder

hahahaha

lol

or just knock em out with one punch and when someone tries to ask them to explain their comment you can say "UPDATE: fireballed"

lol

http://instagram.com/p/NXX_dDvVjn/

lool

lmao

I do actually enjoy Grubes' callouts of that "finally" tic.

(The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are so nearly identical in Geekbench results that I simply averaged the two together under “iPhones 6”.)

Look at how long the title is for his iPad Air 2 review. Couldn't he have called his iPhone review "iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus" instead?

That’s how much the banks like Apple Pay. They’re giving you money just to try it.

http://crooksandliars.com/files/vfs/2013/01/10105.jpeg

First, the headline. I think it’s clear that Apple Pay is siding with the credit companies and banks — but they’re not pitted against consumers, they’re pitted against retailers. It’s retailers who want to reduce the use of credit cards (and the resulting fees). Not consumers. Any consumer who doesn’t want to use a credit card can simply not use a credit card. (They can still use Apple Pay with debit cards.) Apple Pay is only allowing us to more easily and securely use the credit/debit cards we already have. For consumers, nothing is worse post-Apple Pay (transaction fees are not higher — the banks pay Apple’s 0.15 percent cut), and much is better (security, privacy, and convenience).

I understand the argument that the 2-3 percent processing fees that retailers pay for credit cards are ultimately passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, but for consumers that can be offset by cash back and reward programs from their card providers.

I don’t understand how this article amounts to anything more than “Apple should have used magic” hand-waving. What could Apple have done differently that would have actually worked, without involving credit card processors? Remember, Apple Pay doesn’t require retailers to install Apple Pay-specific POS terminal hardware. It famously works with the standard NFC hardware that’s been out for years. Building atop the existing credit card infrastructure is fundamental to people’s willingness to try Apple Pay and to retailers’ ability to accept it. Pressman is implicitly arguing that Apple should have somehow reinvented the entire retail electronic payments industry, without the help of the banks or credit card companies, and presumably with the cooperation of retailers. But we see with CurrentC/MCX the sort of things the retailers would have demanded of Apple in such a hypothetical systems.

Eagerly awaiting Felix Salmon, et al. to smack Gruber down re: interchange.

Re: “Apple should have used magic." Apple can't, but the Fed can (and is): http://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/regii-average-interchange-fee.htm

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/11/03/filevault_2_mac_users_unsaved_files_and_screenshots_are_automatically_uploaded.html

gruber defense of this as "why wouldn't you want your stuff to be recoverable from a secure backup, idiots" in 5...4...

Wait, so people are upset that "temporary files" e.g. an unsaved textedit document are backed up to iCloud? I don't quite get what's so alarming about it.

Uploading what has always been local-only (hell, what had always been in-memory-only) to US servers without notice is pretty bad news. Depending on what you happened to be typing (eg personal data) you could be breaking all sorts of laws, from data protection to HIPAA.

I was quite surprised to hear about it, yep.

Not surprised by this at all. The iWork apps, TextEdit, etc. all default saved to iCloud in 10.9. Suspect some Handoff/Continuity features rely on it.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/Handoff/HandoffFundamentals/HandoffFundamentals.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014338-CH3-SW5

Handoff of a given user activity requires the originating app to designate that activity’s NSUserActivity object as the current activity, save pertinent data for continuation on another device, and send the data to the resuming device. Handoff passes only enough information between the devices to describe the activity itself, while larger-scale data synchronization is handled through iCloud.

i do think it's pretty sketchy that data is being transmitted possibly across legal jurisdictions w/o explicit action of saving it on the part of the user if it's not made explicitly clear that's what's happening

basically we're looking at a huge state sponsored version of the posts you had second thoughts about thread

The difference from 10.9 is that then you had an explicit choice to save to iCloud or elsewhere. Now even unsaved drafts are uploaded

if you're using the default set of apps, that is
<looks down nose all elitist-style>

Uploading what has always been local-only (hell, what had always been in-memory-only) to US servers without notice is pretty bad news. Depending on what you happened to be typing (eg personal data) you could be breaking all sorts of laws, from data protection to HIPAA.

I was quite surprised to hear about it, yep.

The compliance issues are infuriating. Especially since it sounds like sloppy engineering rather than a useful feature.

I think it's a useful feature but it's one of those things where engineering does it without running it through the right channels

we have those in my workplace, we call them "cowboys" and they finally got shut down after being told that not trusting systems administrators is not a reason to run a production server on some guy's desk

"There is something very wrong with this company. It’s like Richard Nixon came back from the grave and is running a startup."

ha i like this

re: uber btw

He's having another go at "apps are really just the web" and he's still all kinds of wrong there.

This Kubrick obsession of his is something else.

"A moment to savor"

I hate you stet.

I forget but I think I was coming here to mention something similar. Great minds.

Yes, they made a ton of money. By gouging us, basically. And we pay it!

Why not stop the dividends and pay your retail employees more or something.

because until publicly-held companies cease being held to pull the most profit possible, people will be paid the minimum amount the market demands

I wouldn't mind so much if they weren't increasing the iPhone prices and still skimping on memory. Some straight gouging, that.

Tim Cook is in the midst of a European tour. This photo from his tour of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum caught my eye. You can feel the solemnity.

And just think, he makes six figures writing this crapola.