new air is 20% too expensive
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
too diffuse a range of products makes it too frustrating to min-max plus post-brexit weakness of the pound has pushed prices uncomfortably high. there's just no sweet spot, as far as I can see in the range
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
if the new pro started at 128GB for the 760Β£ model and the smart cover 45/55Β£ worked then it might have been the_one
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
apple has got to be taking the piss
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
they've been holding off on revealing their real product line for like 5 years, it's all been just a gas
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
This is about the least exciting event I can remember. Whole thing felt very 5 years ago
― calstars, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
i think we'd all like to go back to 5 years ago!
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
1. inflate price of all products2. hide device sales
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 2 November 2018 12:16 (five years ago) link
what does "inflate price of products" mean?
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 2 November 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
Sell hardware at higher profit margins
― DJI, Friday, 2 November 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
I'm kind of surprised there isn't, like, an SEC or GAAP requirement for a business that sells a consumer product to state how many units of that product it sells.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 2 November 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
is there any evidence that apple are selling products at higher profit margins?
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 2 November 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
Apple stock down 7%, good job Tim!
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 2 November 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
can someone convince me not to get an ipad pro
― F# A# (β), Friday, 2 November 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
there's probably some starving children somewhere
― j., Friday, 2 November 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
I have owned an iPad and it did not change my life
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 2 November 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
yeah that's the thing i don't even need it
ugh
basically i want to read comics on it, i don't want it for anything else, and i don't want to buy physical books/comics
― F# A# (β), Friday, 2 November 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
support physical mediaaaaaaaaa
― Nhex, Friday, 2 November 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
ipad pro seems pretty big for anything except actual work IMO
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 2 November 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
FWIW, my main book and comic reader is a iPad Mini 3. If I had to get something now, I'd probably get that $329 9" iPad. You don't have to spend iPad Pro money on it.
Physical media won't let me back it up in multiple locations and will be a big problem when climate-change enhanced fires burn all of California down. Portability and redundancy forever!
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 November 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
I think the best way for me to die would be in a fire accelerated by my bookshelves, or crushed by them in an earthquake
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 2 November 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
i want nice big text and graphics tho
i don't want to get old man eyes so soon
― F# A# (β), Friday, 2 November 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Physical media won't let me back it up in multiple locations and will be a big problem when climate-change enhanced fires burn all of California down.
It's the backing-up-in-multiple-locations thing that's causing climate-change enhanced fires tho.
― Position Position, Friday, 2 November 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
yeah that's the thing i don't even need itughbasically i want to read comics on it, i don't want it for anything else, and i don't want to buy physical books/comics
― la bΓ©bΓ© du nom-nom (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 November 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
My 10β Pro is rapidly becoming my main computer. Did all the work on the site from it this morning. I think Iβve used my work Mac for about 20 minutes this week, and that was to pull together a presentation from three other decks. (iOS still sucks horrifically at multiple docs in the same app)
― stet, Friday, 2 November 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
We've owned 3 ipads and I never found a use for them. My kids like it, which is another reason not to have it around.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 2 November 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
For a company that prides itself on design, I actually don't find them comfortable to use at all. Any intensive tasks are much more comfortable to do on a laptop, and anything less intensive I'd rather just do on my phone.
FWIW, I'm not using the cloud. Follow-ups to Maintaining a Digital Music Collection
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 November 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
agree with both man alive posts.
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Friday, 2 November 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
I prefer reading comics on my iPad mini 3 to my iPad Pro 10.5β. On the pro, the scans get big enough that they suffer if they arenβt super hi resAny iPad with a retina screen and 128gb or more of storage will serve u well as a comics reader imo
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 2 November 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
For a company that prides itself on design, I actually don't find them comfortable to use at all. Any intensive tasks are much more comfortable to do on a laptop, and anything less intensive I'd rather just do on my phone.otm, after that initial period of subscribing to magazines i never got around to reading there didnβt seem to be any point. maybe as they get close to being an actual macbook proxy for most people (now?) theyβll find a place for most people.for me the clincher is not being to type on your lap without it all going everywhere. the smart keyboards are pretty solid but itβs still precarious.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 3 November 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link
I love the pro I bought last year, but I find I donβt use it as much as Iβd like because I cannot use it around my 5yo.
― beard papa, Saturday, 3 November 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
re higher prices
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 04:08 (five years ago) link
Apple's new iPad Pro seems to bend pretty easily https://t.co/EgHrG1iBEo pic.twitter.com/35RHNgO3SQ— The Verge (@verge) November 16, 2018
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 16 November 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
yikes
― Spottie, Friday, 16 November 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
tl;dr looks like the microphone and induction pad are in the worst possible places for that
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 16 November 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
in messages conversations used to be in bubbles/rounded but something changed and they're all ugly squares now. anyone know how to change it back?
― Mordy, Sunday, 18 November 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
Preferences>bubble edge display>rounded
― calstars, Sunday, 18 November 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
weirdly not an option for me but force quitting / reopening fixed it. maybe i need to update to 10.13.6?
― Mordy, Sunday, 18 November 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
deeply regret installing mojave. constant freezing.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 19 November 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
i'm sorry to hear that but thank you for reaffirming my decision not to install until i finish a very important project
btw, for ppl with touch bar MacBooks: mine froze the other day, and I had no idea what to do because there's no power button... there actually is, it's on the right end of the touch bar. it's there. maybe this is old news. i thought that was cool.
― flappy bird, Monday, 19 November 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
My new favourite Shortcut is Upload to Imgur. Handy for getting pictures ready to post on ILX, which I always found a massive faff on iOS before
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c0c8520be8734d0faec0096b83c4703b
― Alba, Monday, 26 November 2018 11:39 (five years ago) link
I like using the TinyPic keyboard for ilx image uploads. Uploads it and created the bbcode for you, all from zing.
― Jeff, Monday, 26 November 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link
Ooh
― Alba, Monday, 26 November 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
Thanks alba
― calstars, Monday, 26 November 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
apple music will work on amazon echos in a few weeks
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 30 November 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
poor ol siri
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 30 November 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
god i am still digging just having adequate memory and being able to leave programs and documents sitting open for days at a time
$ uptime 5:02 up 8 days, 3:48, 2 users, load averages: 1.32 1.79 2.14
― j., Thursday, 6 December 2018 11:07 (five years ago) link
~dark mode is good now~
― j., Tuesday, 11 December 2018 09:10 (five years ago) link
mojave is definitely the worst; really need to roll back to pre-update but scared to lose my computer for a few days
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link