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- Submitted 4 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 34 comments
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
Yeah … I wasn’t sure when I wrote it and didn’t think it’d matter tbh
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
Not only for iPhone, but for Mac as well. It’s easy to install bsd on a machine when you have access to the best hw engineers and documenters on the planet.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
Thank you, exactly
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
Seamless integration has been around since the first real-time chatrooms though. Again, just making a better UI
For phone calls that’s just VoIP which was around waaaaayyy before the iPhone, Skype was doing something similar in the consumer geek market in 2004/5. They just brought it to the big consumer market, and again, made it 1000x easier to do.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
There’s an old saying in computing. “you improve usability by taking away options and features” apple didn’t necessarily invent this mindset. But they perfected it.
They took BSD, a security focused, but not very user friendly, offshoot of Linux/unix and made it “popular” by adding several layers of polish and doing a lot of the configuration work for you and made it osx. This was a time when Linux usability/management on the personal/newbie scale was garbage. If you wanted to install a certain distro of *nix, you better make sure you have supporting hardware and the right up to date tutorial, which is managed by an unknown volunteer, which was usually some person bored on the weekend a few months ago and never updated, they’ve made *nix installation and management a lot better though recently.
They also did this with music. People used to have large collections of unorganized mp3s in the early 00s, unless you were really anal and had a lot of time in your hands, because you were likely downloading them from several different illegal places, and legally buying mp3s were all over the place. You could buy the album off this weird obscure website that you didn’t want to trust with your CC information, because there were a lot of mom and pop music stores online. Then apple brought out iTunes and allowed both buying and managing (and eventually upgrading, traveling around with) music to be dead simple.
For smartphones, they stole a LOT from BlackBerry, but they took it to the next level. Blackberry had email, a private messaging network, and mobile web scrolling waayyyy before anyone. And so many people loved it so much that even Obama famously didn’t want to give his up when he took office. Then apple came out with the iPhone, and blew it away with a bigger screen and again, a lot more polish.
Innovation happens in small steps over years. Apple didn’t invent mobile phones, smart phones, tablets, or computing, they didn’t invent security, encrypted audio/video calls, or music management. They’ve done a lot of crappy stuff, and they charge super high amounts of money for less than state of the art hardware. Their innovation could be summed up by this profound statement I remember a friend said to me once around 2003/4.
“Osx, because making Linux pretty was easier than fixing Windows”
- Comment on How did money work on deep space 9? 11 months ago:
Why a restaurant for the service.
Between my wife and I we can make a lot of good staples (roasted chicken, beef and potatoes, etc.) but we’re not masters of the kitchen by any stretch.
You go to a restaurant to have someone else make the dinner and hopefully they are better than you are to make something tastier. As a side you don’t have to deal with cleaning dishes.
That and hopefully they have a good wait staff to liven up things
- Comment on How did money work on deep space 9? 11 months ago:
Iirc it’s that they find Scotty from OG through plot magic and he complains about synthehol not being scotch.
Data says someone else (guinan?) Has a bottle or two stowed somewhere of something similar…
- Comment on How did money work on deep space 9? 11 months ago:
In real life you have to make your own food, make your own drinks, use your own plates/glasses/etc. and deal with cleanup.
In ds9 the replicator does everything for you.
But I get your point
Thanks!
- Comment on How did money work on deep space 9? 11 months ago:
This makes much more sense. On my first run through of ds9 and this has been bothering me
- Comment on How did money work on deep space 9? 11 months ago:
Ok so next question. If the computer can magically create anything. And they are on almost all space stations (including cardassian/federation ones) what’s the point of a bar?
Gambling makes sense. Paying for food/drink when you have a replicator doesn’t.
- Submitted 11 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 57 comments
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 1 year ago:
The thing that is killing me is Netflixs attempt to crack down on password sharing.
I share an account with a few family members. If I want to watch a program on Netflix, which my brother pays for, I have to call him up to get the unlock code. He has a newborn and sleeps weird hours.
I end up just pirating it myself.
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 1 year ago:
Not after we demonstrate the power of raising prices princess!
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 1 year ago:
Hmmmmm. Let’s see here.
People don’t like cable, because it’s too expensive and inconvenient
People start pirating
People like having 2-3 streaming services that show everything, without ads, for much cheaper even combined than cable. They stop pirating.
People don’t like having 20-30 streaming services that show only a little in each service, NOW WITH ADS!?!?! and that become MUCH more expensive than cable ever was.
People start pirating again…
I wonder what happened?!?!
- Comment on Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly' 1 year ago:
Similar. MacBook pro from mid 2014 for personal stuff
- Comment on Case reccomendation for the P7P? 1 year ago:
Yeah. My wife has an iPhone and we drive a lot. Thinking to not have to deal with the wires on the dashboard would be great.
- Comment on Phone Notification When Watch Battery Full? 1 year ago:
Accubattery works for me on my p7p. It defaults to alerting you at every %point after 80. But you can change it to 100
There’s a few permissions you have to give it, which I don’t remember the precise names, but it basically wants to know how much power other apps are using and allows to always be on “no optimized” is the wording I think.
And I didn’t upgrade to pro
- Comment on Case reccomendation for the P7P? 1 year ago:
Thanks for the suggestion.
There wasn’t a screen protector for yours right? How is the magsafe though?
Mous was one of the vendors that’s only magsafe from what I saw … Hoping I missed something.
- Submitted 1 year ago to askandroid@lemdro.id | 6 comments
- Comment on Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ? 1 year ago:
1 Pi 4 for two things
- Download media over a persistent VPN that auto-moves to my NAS
- Fun play toy as a dev box to test new tech and try to stay current and keep my Linux skills sharp since I use osx at work
1 ends up blocking 2
I really want to buy like 5 or 6 with temp sensors to put around the house to see how good my heating/ac are working, and confirm wifi strength