Posts by gujiguju

Re: So you pay the same as everyone else?

HAHAHA.

Well. Played. Sir.

Re: "Facebook’s algorithms [..] put immense profit before safety and society"

You make a FANTASTIC point — that many journalists mindlessly parrot (beyond the Chicago School faux-academic nonsense; see the revelatory “Inside Job” documentary).

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-corporations-obligations-to-shareholders/corporations-dont-have-to-maximize-profits

Re: If only Apple would actually implement message filtering

It’s 2021, and apparently, some bonobos are able to search for a near-definitive answer to life’s complex questions, such as, “Does iPhone allow SMS filtering…?”

On iOS/iPadOS:

Settings ➡️ Messages ➡️ Unknown & Spam

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=iphone+sms+filter&t=ipad&ia=web

Re: Not quite like Tor

From a reading of comments by Federighi, it seems they are using an “independent, 3rd-party relay,” though unnamed.

https://sixcolors.com/link/2021/06/federighi-on-apples-latest-privacy-features/

This seems to indicate that the user info & destination is obfuscated to the relay, also, thus not relying on a single-point to funnel traffic like typical VPNs.

And, Don’t Forget The Last Moon Mission, As Well

Enthrall to https://apollo17.org/ with real-time multi-channel audio and real-time vídeo & photos.

Default Search in Safari

Not like Google Mobile Services collection of apps, on Android...this is simply the default search provider in Mobile Safari (and the iOS Search field, as well). Given that the vast majority never change the default, it’s incredibly valuable, thus Google forks over $9B this year, and apparently $12B in 2019 for the privilege (according to Asymco).

Not sure about your comment about Chrome. Yes, you can get Chrome from the Apple App Store (or Opera, for example) to browse instead of Safari.

Note that it takes 10 seconds to change to DuckDuckGo or other search engine. (Yes, that scream of horror that you just heard was from Larry & Sergei.)

https://www.lifewire.com/change-default-search-engine-in-safari-for-ios-4103642

Re: Here we go again

True enough.

I would note as Google started growing fast, way back, most (or many) of the management team were former Microsofties...so the same "embrace and extinguish" approach with a fake "don't be evil" feeling from Brin & Page became the norm...

Re: Sad? probably. Surprising? no.

An interesting side-benefit of the internet is that those that are so certain of their superiority can reveal themselves to be the ultimate doofuses...

Tell everyone how Dred Scott "established case law" still stands, made by those "qualified to judge" back in 1857...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sanford

This case can be overturned at any time when more clear-thinking occupants reside at the Supreme Court...and it will. This case is akin to SCOTUS banning the Sony Betamax VCR in 1985.

Aereo is essentially a cloud-based Betamax and since over-the-air TV programming is free to all in the US (and supported by cost-free public spectrum to the TV networks making massive profits), this is the most stupid, f-cking SCOTUS opinion I've seen in a long time. (Maybe just behind Dred Scott and Citizens United.)

Note that only one Supreme Court Justice (Kagan) uses email. There you have it.

Re: Er....

Yes, I was noticing the same thing. It doesn't seem predictive, but more reactive.

I also noticed that the peaks don't correlate, meaning some high search peaks are lower than the box office peaks.

Me thinks this is just Google drumming up business from the notoriously clueless film studios to take their marketing money. If you watch Soderbergh lecture on the "State of Cinema", they have NO idea why or why not various movies are successful or tank...(and what's worse, the studios don't even seem interested in any self-analysis or A/B testing -- given the "big data" that is available).

http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/steven-soderbergh-state-of-cinema-address/

Google is good at vacuuming that ad money from the clueless & insecure.

Re: How does this work?

Nice inquiry, @AC. This is the essence of the whole case and the concerns Steve Jobs was negotiating with the book publishers, as I've been able to understand after doing some online research.

Amazon had, just before the iPad was announced in January 2010, a ~90% ebook market share using the wholesale model...and the publishers were really steamed about it.

As you rightly point out, the publisher CEOs were horrified at having zero control over industry pricing as ebooks proliferated via Amazon (and their fear of paper books going the way of the Dodo bird). Bezos was in the catbird seat, because his vision of zero profit is supported by Wall Street, so he can drive down pricing to 1¢/unit profit (or, even negative) while the Amazon stock price still goes up (giving him huge cash reserves).

Note also, that while the publisher CEOs were freaked, so, too, were physical book store owners (not the warehouse book stores, the million family-owned corner bookstores throughout the US). They can't stay open if they have to meet Amazon ebook pricing.

So, now, here comes Apple with their iPad and iBook store (and Steve Jobs as white knight) by offering an agency model to the publishers to give them flexibility to price as they would like: market pricing...as opposed to zero-profit Amazon pricing.

I'm fascinated by anti-trust law after following the Microsoft trial and reading about the IBM mainframe consent decree and the AT&T breakup. How can Apple be accused of collusion when they had zero market share in 2010, while Amazon has a 90% monopoly?

My guess is that the Eliza Rivlin testimony will be revealing if there was some backroom dealing, but I'm not so sure.

Here's the email thread from Steve Jobs to James Murdoch that is quite informing.

http://qz.com/87184/the-steve-jobs-emails-that-show-how-to-win-a-hard-nosed-negotiation/

Re: Musk obviously has staff to pay his bills and thus never actually sees them ...

New disruptions are always confusing; stay calm.

And to help your false view of "capitalism", that's actually not the way it works...yes, there's inflation, but that's the way unfettered, unregulated greed works (especially when externalities like spewing pollution into the atmosphere with no chargeback -- same as when London had the black fog from profiteering coal plants, remember how fun that was -- while people died off, like ants?) .

Here's why 100-year-old power companies are resisting solar:

http://grist.org/climate-energy/solar-panels-could-destroy-u-s-utilities-according-to-u-s-utilities/

As Musk said, incumbents get stagnant..only new entrants will innovate in big leaps (i.e., continuing with gas-only engines, despite the Toyota CEO's bold $1 billion move into hybrids in 1995). See "Who Killed The Electric Car?" and enlighten yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsJAlrYjGz8

Musk has another IPO, called SolarCity. Buying a Tesla means that you have access to solar-powered Supercharging stations for free, FOREVER (and a software update will allow 200-mile range after 20 minutes).

Don't be a downer; try to dream and make the future happen...it's healthier and more fun.

Here's Musk's D11 interview:

http://allthingsd.com/20130530/tesla-ceo-and-spacex-founder-elon-musk-the-full-d11-interview-video/

Works fine here, using Opera for OSX.

Mind boggling to the think where we've come since Breakout was first released (as if remembering horse-drawn carriages and now watching the moon landings). Astounding advances (in wasting time). ;)

Re: What The Fuck?

Billionaires' "Giving Pledge" was initiated by Gates & Buffet, in 2010, I believe...

http://givingpledge.org/faq.aspx

Re: Any Reg readers own a Lamborghini...?

Would that be a Red Barchetta...? I thought so. ;)

Buy it all again

Was just thinking that, as well. hahaha.

(I wonder if Apple or other movie services will be able to negotiate upgrade fees with movie studios, as was done with transition in iTunes music from MP3 -> AAC...?)

Re: Why are the traditional carriers still around?

Not their core competency...Apple looked at starting an MVNO to support iPhones in 2006, but way too many issues.

The sooner cellcos act like smart utilities for fast cellular connections & reliability and nothing else, the better.

Re: "Competitors are nipping at the heels of the once unassailable Apple"

Except in Economics 101, if you don't make any profit selling your widget, you will eventually go bankrupt.

No company other than Apple & Samsung make any profits on their handsets. (And Apple's profits are 250% of Samsung, so you do the math...)

It's hilarious to keep reading these comments about zero-profit, market share numbers. How will these company stay in the mobile business without any profits? (Maybe Microsoft can fun Nokia for another 5 years, but who else?) Only Apple, and to a lesser extent Samsung, have any non-zero profits...

Re: Apple's problem with flash

Except that there's been a YouTube icon on the iPhone homescreen since day one in 2007 -- and iPad since 2010 (along with Safari in-browser support for embedded YouTube videos), so what's your point..?

Re: Why the hate?

Not really "hate," just cynicism...and the reason is because Samsung leaked a possible new "feature" to the NY Times to create hype before the new model, instead of just doing a great announcement demo during the release event.

(Also, cynicism pointed at news media, like NYT and others, that are happy to shovel rumors via anonymous sources for page views & ad hits, instead of real reportage.)

For those engaged in the continuous Apple foodfight, my guess is every handset maker or mobile OS maker has this in their R&D labs, it's just about thinking whether it works well enough or will confuse their users (or just release it as a hyped check-box item).

Tepid

@successcase:

Well said.

Let's be brutally honest: anyone that has lived or studied the last 15-20 years of IT history, must admit to the Surface as being a laughable device.

This is simply a warmer-over $2000 Tablet PC with Windows from 2000 that has now been upgraded with the laziest design sense to a....$1000 Surface with Windows for 2013.

Whatever or however you feel about Steve Jobs & Apple, the iPad has, simply and irrevocably, changed the world.

Let's try a counter-factual: the iPhone & iPad were never invented by Apple. Would Microsoft have released this Surface POS now?

One step further: let's grant that MS actually does care about R&D and innovation, and they actually did release this in 2010 (again, with no iPad). Would the world give a rat's ass about the Surface as "a game changer"...? No. They would've sold 5,000 Surfaces, as many as Tablet PCs were sold in 10 years, and we'd be stuck still buying ugly, lame netbooks that were slow and crashed every week (and/or that sucked hours per week of my life to do personal and family and colleagues' tech support).

And while there is a Cupertino bubble, the Redmond bubble is a much different place with really shortsighted outcomes and unoriginal results.

The confusion stems from Apple not fearing to cannibalize OSX, while Microsoft can't see beyond protecting their Windows & Office monopolies. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, in 1999, could have been allowed to beak up Microsoft (like Standard Oil or AT&T) into separate Windows & Productivity entities, and we would have Office, identically, on 10 platforms now and who knows what else.

There. I said it.

Re: Preferred

Good point...it's that kind lame thinking that wasted billions of user-years since 1990.

Speaking of which, I discovered Opera for browsing back around 2001. I've haven't typed "www" or ".com" for over a decade... ;)

Re: Foundering?

Most of the IPO issues revolve about Wall Street corruption, I think..the rest is outside investors with imperfect knowledge trying to pretend that insider trading doesn't exist...

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/facebook-ipo-shows-extreme-corruption-mcnamee-says-BLhoC6ayQFOFXSwaBaYAfQ.html

Re: My first thought was that Bill Gates didn't have any..

Excellent recall about XMLHttpRequest...however you ignore the salience of it.

It was only beneficial to all and revolutionized web apps until those same, ingenious Microsoft developers got recruited away, to go to Google in Mountain View.

They then used it to design Gmail and other cool, new web services & browser UIs. (Besides, remember that Microsoft's "vision" was relegate it, only using XMLHttpRequest in OWA...and ONLY when viewing in IE. Using Netscape or Opera back then defaulted it to an archaic, simple HTML version with less features.)

Torturing monopolist, indeed.

Re: Why?

Yes, we've seen so many Wall Street & City CEOs turn down extra money because they just hate paying their taxes (especially when they money-launder it in Geneva or elsewhere).

Let's just be honest. There's a vile & repulsive gene that we've seen revealed in the run-up to the Collapse in 2008, and Cook definitely doesn't have it, in his DNA. He seems to be a better man. (The kind Peal Jam seemed to be looking for.)