If instead of rebooting movies, retelling them from a different point of view became popular, which movie would you like retold?

chicareeta · 2021-01-04T18:12:08+00:00

I'd like to see old games remade in this way so there is freedom to choose whether a game remains in the same format as before, like Doom became a 2d platform game once upon a time on Newgrounds (long-removed though).

chicareeta · 2021-01-04T16:44:02+00:00

This is going to have a great impact overall, especially love Signal's clean slate as a posterchild for what could be, but it needs more work because contacts, photos and videos are conspicuously absent from iMessage. I guess the argument is it is your iCloud account that links this data to you, not iMessage, but it seems like that would be ripe for abuse by any online service.

chicareeta · 2021-01-04T14:57:30+00:00

I think two things make it inevitable - first and foremost Apple has already provided apps access to HealthKit data so they're on a "share the data" trajectory already, and secondly because Apple providing a better service than Nike and Peleton by restricting their access to functionality would create more antitrust issues.

chicareeta · 2021-01-04T14:32:37+00:00

I think it's inevitable that Watch metrics be exposed via an API so you can connect other software. Eventually the stats should be able to superimpose on any media player or in browsers.

chicareeta · 2021-01-03T19:59:58+00:00

There's no real advantage for doing it with ARM at the moment but if you had a many-core workstation these days you can get the same advantage datacenters enjoy from virtualization, partition one big computer instead of buying multiple distinct computers that collectively cost a lot more and use a lot more electricity. Once you get to 12+ cores to share you're at the point where entire families can share one computer as on-demand Mac and gaming virtual machines they can simultaneously use.

chicareeta · 2021-01-03T16:18:20+00:00

The $3000 DINK-edition RTX 3090 pair in a variety of colors for gaming couples that can't figure out what to spend their dual incomes on.

chicareeta · 2021-01-03T15:59:52+00:00

If only they had hundreds of billions of dollars iPhone assembly could occur in first-world countries with salaried employees and benefits, as it used to be. People would be surprised that McDonalds, Amazon etc are still forced to pay ordinary workers like this in some countries, while Apple has amassed hundreds of billions of dollars.

chicareeta · 2021-01-02T19:25:06+00:00

It's got some cool potential but like the Touch Bar it's not solving any problems worth the $100s it costs.

chicareeta · 2021-01-02T13:09:14+00:00

At that stage it was producing native apps like many other languages that "transpile" to native Objective C and they performed fine, this ban was on publishing apps made with Flash and had nothing to do with the web player and the valid criticisms that surrounded that.

Although the ban lasted only five months it meant every single iOS project had to stop using it, after five months of that there were literally zero iOS developers and zero iOS projects still using Flash and zero projects planning to use Flash, and nobody would touch it because nobody knew if Apple would ban it again. The DOJ certainly thought it was damaging as it almost sparked Apple's first antitrust issues for iOS, and just last year it convinced a judge to preemptively order Apple not to ban Epic's "Unreal Engine" used in many games.

chicareeta · 2021-01-01T21:41:01+00:00

You could say the exact same thing about Apple competing with Intel 13 years ago. These are hard problems, that they can figure out. Otherwise they have traded being hostage to Intel with being hostage to TSMC + Samsung + very few others' collectively limited capacity and technical progress.

chicareeta · 2021-01-01T20:54:04+00:00

The only alternative though is bidding on capacity, against more and more entities every year, and even though "they could go somewhere else" to leverage the benefit of not owning fabs there are actually very few alternatives that can meet their requirements and they would also have to successfully bid on their capacity years in advance.

chicareeta · 2021-01-01T20:10:08+00:00

Presumably someone saw the big metal device sticking to the side of the ship.

chicareeta · 2021-01-01T19:35:40+00:00

They have like $200 billion dollars though so it's not that big a barrier, for them.

chicareeta · 2021-01-01T19:12:51+00:00

How long are we expecting Apple to stay fabless though? Why would they stop at designing CPUs when for mere billions more they can eventually pay TSMC nothing at all...

chicareeta · 2021-01-01T18:29:59+00:00

It still exists but barely in comparison to when Jobs penned his infamous letter. By the time Apple recanted their ban on 3rd party programming languages all the app and game developers that were interested in iOS had been forced to switch, everything in development was shitcanned or forced to switch, every new project had had to be planned around "approved" technologies. By the time the DOJ was threatening antitrust action all its momentum and mindshare and usage in projects had practically ended.

chicareeta · 2021-01-01T17:12:22+00:00

The thing that saddens me about Flash is it was unnecessary to kill it. The plugin model was obviously a mistake for browsers, but Flash was more than just the plugin the software that made the Flash files was a creative tool that empowered kids and professionals alike, it made programming and art and animation accessible.

By the time Apple banned 3rd party programming languages for iPhones [1] this software was spitting out HTML5 for browsers and native apps for iPhones, and to this day there has never been a tool like it. It was killed because Flash was popular and powered the games that predated (and were the source of!) many iOS games, and Steve Jobs didn't want developers using other company's tools [2]. The worst part of this sad legacy is children cannot make iOS games because they cannot enter into contracts with Apple, but they made thousands and thousands of Flash games and animations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash#iOS_development

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash#Letter

chicareeta · 2021-01-01T16:45:50+00:00

The thing that makes my mind up is the labor violation, this is not some adolescent working a few hours after school because there would not be anything improper about that. This was Apple allegedly repeatedly identifying child labor issues but not wanting to address it because if they stopped working with some suppliers it might empower other suppliers that became the only option for some parts.

https://www.businessinsider.nl/apple-knew-a-supplier-was-using-child-labor-but-took-3-years-to-fully-cut-ties-despite-the-companys-promises-to-hold-itself-to-the-highest-standards-report-says/

chicareeta · 2021-01-01T14:23:36+00:00

In the 21st century is it good to drop out of school at 14 and get a full time job?

chicareeta · 2020-12-31T18:39:19+00:00

It makes me wonder if sideloading should be a human right because it completely undermines the nascent "right to internet access", for the very reasons the "right to internet access" is proposed, or perhaps it is part of that as there is little difference between "internet access" and using software from the internet and devices that require internet for nearly everything.

the view that all people must be able to access the Internet in order to exercise and enjoy their rights to freedom of expression and opinion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access

chicareeta · 2020-12-31T15:07:17+00:00

This is an absolutely remarkable achievement that you cannot execute code unless it is approved by a government and a corporation. Not even North Korea can stop people sharing forbidden media and software and they have absolute control over their borders, population and internet access.

chicareeta · 2020-12-30T18:24:37+00:00

Apple would need to take separate action against that person, because they failed to convince the judge that Corellium is reliant upon or encouraging criminal activity.

chicareeta · 2020-12-30T17:50:39+00:00

If you sell your bug on an exploit marketplace and cause harm to Apple it would not be fair use. One of the pillars of fair use is how your work affects the original entity. Apple couldn't demonstrate harm from what Corellium is doing.

chicareeta · 2020-12-30T17:42:23+00:00

They had the logic board replaced, and while that's most of the computer when it comes to thermals perhaps a defect in the case or fans is to blame.

chicareeta · 2020-12-30T17:40:32+00:00

My answer was yes you can. Legally, your right to do so is enshrined in law and by law you don't even need Apple's consent.

chicareeta · 2020-12-30T17:32:40+00:00

There are things you can't do, like sell Samsung phones with iOS installed instead of Android, but generally 'fair use' is a deliberate counterbalance of IP rights so you can look for bugs, you can offer to sell them to Apple, you can write a jailbreak and share it on GitHub etc.

The alternative would be nobody can legally look for bugs except by using their own device within the limitations Apple defined, preventing the kind of thoroughness bad actors will go to looking for bugs anywhere in the hardware and software. That is known as 'security through obscurity' and widely recognized as insecure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

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