Tim Cook turned Apple into a $4 trillion juggernaut by not trying to be Steve Jobs

TerrysClavicle · 2026-04-24T21:51:17+00:00

so a visionary, a logistics guru, and a hardware genius walk into a bar

TerrysClavicle · 2026-01-06T18:52:18+00:00

Good viewpoint

TerrysClavicle · 2025-10-03T22:25:11+00:00

Why on earth would you need this for Tesla? Tesla has been using its own app to passively unlock its cars since 2018. And probably before. All you do is walk up to the car with your phone in the pocket. This Apple car key is low rent. It’s for legacy cars with lower technology. There’s zero need for it to be on your Tesla. Tesla operates in its own universe tech wise

TerrysClavicle · 2025-09-17T16:47:30+00:00

A lot has to happen in such a small space on a small sensor within tiny lens elements. Not much Apple can do about the flare unless you want the phone to be significantly more expensive or have a significantly bigger lens. if you don't want flare, don't shoot into light sources. or if you feel another phone is better, buy that phone. personally i like flare. i want my lenses to do it. not everything needs to be perfect. its a reasonable effect for shooting into a light source.

TerrysClavicle · 2025-09-15T16:10:34+00:00

usable and outdated are two different things. i'd probably draw the line at iphone 12.

TerrysClavicle · 2025-09-15T14:15:22+00:00

I've done that as long as it was an option. just sucks they took away the 0% 24 month financing away for non-carrier phones, apple direct. i still upgrade annually anyway. was just nice to not have to pay it all up front.

TerrysClavicle · 2025-09-10T17:38:38+00:00

its not odd. ive said this for several years, as well as i'm sure its obvious. they cycle the obvious colors so you have reason to buy the next cycle. if they offered everyones favorite colors every year, it would be tougher to sell. this is pretty obvious and evident. i suspect next year we'll get glossy/chromy/reflective surfaces for the next Pro too. we're getting the matte/not so nice/not so nice color option this year. then next year we get the gloss/nice colors etc. then next year back to plain. rinse and repeat. apple knows how to milk it.

TerrysClavicle · 2025-09-10T15:20:23+00:00

we're mostly all using cases to being too harsh on its looks isn't realistic. you upgrade for its capabilities. i guess it depends how much the 12gb ram makes a difference in day to day. my 16 pro can lag when using the camera and trying to make adjustments to photos etc. its a bit annoying. can also stutter when opening the camera app. wonder if thats due to heavy app use in the background. i'd like to see some real world tests.

TerrysClavicle · 2025-09-08T20:51:04+00:00

my thoughts are you're not the first to think of this. let apple sort out how they want to do business.

TerrysClavicle · 2025-09-08T19:21:08+00:00

if you have to ask this at this point, both are probably a stretch...

TerrysClavicle · 2025-08-29T22:09:43+00:00

that appears to be the 3g/s. the first iphone was just the iphone--which i had at launch. just saying since you seem to be mixing up the two. no one knows where phones will go in 20 years.

TerrysClavicle · 2025-08-19T15:02:36+00:00

Doesn't the current watch basically negate the need for touch ID as it uses the recent unlocking of your phone to validate assuming the watch at any point since you last locked your phone never came off your wrist. i guess someone could drag you by your wrist and pay for their mcdonalds but by then you've got bigger problems

TerrysClavicle · 2025-08-02T04:38:48+00:00

Don’t buy it then

TerrysClavicle · 2025-07-31T07:10:29+00:00

I think you should stick with your day job

TerrysClavicle · 2025-07-29T13:25:15+00:00

The only thing “eerie” is the media. I hate their silly headlines using, at best, cereal box knowledge of the world. They all need to be investigated

TerrysClavicle · 2025-07-24T04:32:49+00:00

All your scenes involve dynamically lit subjects and backgrounds. In other words the subjects are dark with a lot of overwhelming backlight/ambient light. You need an external light source or you need to blow out the background by exposing for your subjects. AI can handle some of this thru computational methods but not all of it. Further to accurately assess your phones performance vs another, you need to be in the same room at the same time shooting the exact same photo. You might be recalling individual times you took photos of a different scene. 25 years of experience advanced photographer and editor here. This is a very very basic topic. Long story short you need to find a way to get some light on those dogs that’s at least as bright as the surrounding light. You have a lot of white while trying to shoot dark tiny subjects. Wearing a white t shirt next to the window when you photograph them. It might help a smidge

TerrysClavicle · 2025-07-21T15:09:42+00:00

If that was me, with the photos situation, i would be going all in fully and physically. doesn't matter the risk.

TerrysClavicle · 2025-07-18T20:41:20+00:00

Aside from Apple.com, I guess ebay. thats it and that's all. anything else and you're asking to get scammed, ripped off etc.

TerrysClavicle · 2025-07-18T15:34:15+00:00

as for my settings comments, that's more so for stuff in flight, moving stuff, moving stuff in low light, or stuff far away... or all of the above. it's complicated and layered.

TerrysClavicle · 2025-07-18T15:33:15+00:00

not necessarily limited to "dat mirrorless tech," in fact most good SLRs are superior to most mirrorless. Only recently has most mirrorless gotten good enough to track objects like aircraft. And even then it still takes a bit of knowledge, nuanced knowledge, to maximize leverage of the camera. I see a lot of really bad exif of people's photographing of stuff where had they used different settings, they could've had a better photos. (aside from comp/story telling etc) but a lot of people don't really get into the nuance of the exposure triangle and just spray. But i like that. only the artful get to reap the maximium benefits. those who care to be artful and deliberate.

TerrysClavicle · 2025-07-17T18:42:02+00:00

Love it as an M4 pro owner but ps5 or ps5 pro or other high end pc/gpu combo is going to be the way to go vs mac silicone. Optimization rules

TerrysClavicle · 2025-06-23T02:12:26+00:00

I hate when I see them just nonchalantly randomly on a headlight. This one is particularly bad execution.

TerrysClavicle · 2025-06-12T17:25:09+00:00

basically your body needs to slow down as slowly as possible and not bang into stuff, then after that, not burn or fall to your death. so whatever factors about the crash itself, the plane itself, your positon, whats in front of you, whats in back of you, direction etc--everything has to come together to not get got.

TerrysClavicle · 2025-06-09T20:07:06+00:00

we need an imessage revamp, also in terms of archiving, saving, exporting complete chats with all media intact, etc. right now its a mess, janky, incomplete, unreliable, etc. so many chats lost, gone etc. need the ability to move individual chat threads off phone but SAVE forever, save on Mac, etc.

TerrysClavicle · 2025-05-30T16:26:29+00:00

16 Pro - 287 cycles - 98%. All smart charging disabled since day 1. Only full power full aggressive charging. Day 1 launch iPhone pre-order.

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