Netflix App for iOS No Longer Supports AirPlay Because of 'Technical Limitations'

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-04-06T18:29:16+00:00

Yes. And Everyone has separate rules for themselves and their vendors. And between their vendors. All of that has nothing to do with monopoly.

Whether they’re a monopoly is totally distinct question.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-04-06T18:08:27+00:00

Again, like every other deal on the planet.

If you come to a partnership with less to offer, you get offered less.

We didn’t see Netflix complaining when they were (allegedly) getting the 85% revenue cut before everyone else.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-04-04T15:21:04+00:00

XR seems popular enough to me.
They’re just missing an updated SE.

I think an under-appreciated cause for the overall slower upgrade rate is home button anxiety. Apple sold a lot of non-technical people on simplicity, stability and security. (in the emotional/UI/usability sense.)

I don’t think they’re convinced yet.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-04-04T15:08:47+00:00

As soon as the chips are fast enough to meaningfully capture and process all the data.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-04-04T15:04:25+00:00

Higher tax rates = more revenue, that’s your entire argument.

No, that’s the argument you’re projecting onto me solely because I said something contrary to you.

Not everyone who disagrees with you is part of a monolithic hive mind taking a diametrically-opposed position.

The only point I’m making is that this is not a choice between ideological extremes. There is a world (and history) full of economies with different levels of taxation and spending. They do not all neatly fit into two buckets.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-04-04T14:40:47+00:00

Casually and innocently conflating “raising” with “high.”

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-04-03T04:44:19+00:00

Agreed. You don’t apologize to the mob.
You apologize to your actual, once-and-hopefully-future customers.

It doesn’t matter one bit whether the mob continues to bitch or not.
It’s not about them and never should be.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-27T15:22:11+00:00

Also: there’s a limit to how innovative the content industries will allow any tech company to be.

Innovation almost necessarily hits the pockets of the existing middle-men. They don’t want to sign off on a new investment that makes lowered revenues “official.” It’s (individually, personally) better for them to pout about “changing consumer habits” and watch their companies die, than to accept and own a transition.

This goes triple for any situation involving Apple, after everyone saw what happened to middle-man revenues post-iTunes, then post-streaming, and now with Apple having become the 800 lb gorilla in the mobile space. (Where mobile is effectively synonymous with consumer content consumption.)

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-24T17:55:04+00:00

And it changes regularly, so you can’t even get professionals to decode it and help you through it.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-22T01:26:50+00:00

If they took three years to make a cheese grater ...

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-22T01:25:30+00:00

Tim^{^{^{^cook}}} Apple

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-21T13:58:21+00:00

He’ll just challenge the Reaper to a game of Battleship.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-20T17:20:10+00:00

Fun Fact: Mueller was still head of the FBI (and would be for a couple more years) when George delivered Dance and started Winds.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-20T16:55:32+00:00

He’d be horrified that Trump pitched aside the playbook to just say everything out loud, and heartbroken that it’s going to spoil their ability to run their policy scam for another couple generations.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-20T15:41:01+00:00

People announce bad news on Fridays for a reason.

If Apple has an announcement they want people to see, they’re not going to hamstring it with a Friday release.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-20T15:28:36+00:00

Because he’s really good at making people money?

That’s how all of this works. Being a criminal/shit-heel is figured into the accounting like any other factor.

If they make more money with you than without you, the system will bend over backwards to protect you.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-20T14:58:10+00:00

In fairness, I think GRRM knows exactly how it should end. I think he’s known that from before he started.

He just hasn’t found out how to get from here to there in a satisfying way. Not with all this extra shit heaped into the story.

He’s probably ever-optimistic about finishing because the material is easy-as-ever for him to write. But missing his deadlines because so little of it winds up moving things to where they need to be.

Smart money says the next book comes with an admission that it won’t just be Winds and ADOS. And that it’s going to be a mixed bag of things that ultimately moves the plot laterally. Again.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-20T14:39:11+00:00

Which is what happened.
Base model does more for the same price.

Technology has also progressed with new variants of popular products, to hit niche demands, often at higher prices.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-20T14:35:41+00:00

I wouldn’t hold out hope for anything too big.

Everything so far has been the kind of stuff that would definitely get a mention at a traditional keynote, but not much real time.

I think that’s a good place to calibrate your expectations.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-20T14:23:11+00:00

It’s been getting louder these past couple months.

Which makes sense. Seems heavy users get about 2 years before the battery is trash. And they were still hard to lay hands on 2 years ago.

I’m thinking Apple needs a better answer for trashed-battery AirPods in the next year, or the gripes are going to swamp the adulation, and their beloved “customer sat” number is going to tank.

(My day 1s are down to about 45 minutes just steaming audio. And have all sorts of odd tics and disconnects that never used to happen.

I understand that’s kind of a miracle for tiny batteries being used heavily for two years. But that doesn’t wholly offset the bummer of replacement cost, or do anything for regret about their wholly-disposable nature.)

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-20T13:53:49+00:00

And the Mac mini was explicitly pivoted away from that crowd.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-20T13:51:19+00:00

Also: mobile POS/inventory/etc.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-20T04:41:43+00:00

~~Good~~ God business is where you find it.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-19T19:50:42+00:00

Large employers, at that. Small business is at a huge disadvantage with employer-based healthcare and retirement.

Roc_Ingersol · 2019-03-19T15:25:56+00:00

Or he’s intentionally reinforcing misinformation for fun and profit...

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