The A in Apple is for Affordable
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I have indisputable proof that the 8 in IP68 means an infinite amount of time:
seconds
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@Jaloopa
Still sounding like 30 minutes to me
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@topspin said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
I've
readcontributed to some boring-ass arguments on here, but boy, this one takes the cake.Filed under: hyphen
Listen dude, there was a guy wrong on the internet. Someone had to act!
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@admiral_p said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
Arguing over IP ratings is the stuff of legends.
But is it a continuous legend?
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@Rhywden said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
This is not the Garage you fucker.
@Rhywden said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
Maybe we should create a special topic in the Garage just for the special snowflake you are. It's "but her emails" on steroid.
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@Jaloopa said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@Luhmann said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@loopback0 said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
undetermined amount of time
30 minutes?
No, 6000 years. Since any longer than that is impossible, it's effectively an indeterminate amount of time ago
😂oh no you didn't!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
is it a continuous legend
At least for 30 minutes I hope
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@kt_ said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
It has to be continuous 40 minutes.
As opposed to IP*7, which must stand up to a one-nanosecond immersion every five seconds. Seriously, at least try to maintain a coherent point.
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@kt_ I accept defeat. I feel like you must have had this document from the start, though, because only an absolute idiot would have taken your position given the available evidence.
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@Rhywden what?
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@pie_flavor said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
I accept defeat.
Immortalizing this.
@pie_flavor said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
given the available evidence.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@pie_flavor said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
I accept defeat.
Immortalizing this.
I know, right? Such words have never been spoken before on this forum.
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@pie_flavor said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@kt_ I accept defeat. I feel like you must have had this document from the start, though, because only an absolute idiot would have taken your position given the available evidence.
Ah, classy as always... I mean, kids these days, right?
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@pie_flavor said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@kt_ I accept defeat. I feel like you must have had this document from the start, though, because only an absolute idiot would have taken your position given the available evidence.
Or a person who can read. A lot of them figured it out.
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@boomzilla said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@pie_flavor said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@kt_ I accept defeat. I feel like you must have had this document from the start, though, because only an absolute idiot would have taken your position given the available evidence.
Or a person who can read. A lot of them figured it out.
You mean like the ones who made the infographics I posted?
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@pie_flavor said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@kt_ I accept defeat. I feel like you must have had this document from the start, though, because only an absolute idiot would have taken your position given the available evidence.
Wait, now he's an idiot for having been right?
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@pie_flavor said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@boomzilla said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@pie_flavor said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@kt_ I accept defeat. I feel like you must have had this document from the start, though, because only an absolute idiot would have taken your position given the available evidence.
Or a person who can read. A lot of them figured it out.
You mean like the ones who made the infographics I posted?
Never go full @Fox. Also, I don't recall the specifics of the infographics, but if they were using your infinite time canard, then no, they didn't figure it out.
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@Polygeekery said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@admiral_p said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@Polygeekery I wonder what would happen if Silicon Valley weren't in a temperate climate area. Would Silicon Valley even exist outside of California? (Say, Chicago).
There are lots of high paying tech jobs in Chicago and they also have almost no affordable housing, so, sort of.
Very sort of. If you get lucky, you can rent a nice 500-600sqft apartment for under $1200, which is pretty affordable if you ask me (especially for high-paying jobs). If you're unlucky, it's about $1500 at most (outside downtown). And if you want to buy your own house, the prices are fairly low now too (property taxes are huge though - but it has caused mass exodus of house owners, and the prices dropped accordingly) - or you can move to suburbs where it's even cheaper, and property taxes aren't that huge.
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@boomzilla said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@pie_flavor said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@boomzilla said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@pie_flavor said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@kt_ I accept defeat. I feel like you must have had this document from the start, though, because only an absolute idiot would have taken your position given the available evidence.
Or a person who can read. A lot of them figured it out.
You mean like the ones who made the infographics I posted?
Never go full @Fox. Also, I don't recall the specifics of the infographics, but if they were using your infinite time canard, then no, they didn't figure it out.
There were infographics where companies that created other kind of devices used the word "continuous" or even said that 7 was for "temporary". There might have also been the odd one from a manufacturer that was in completely different industry where you can actually promise that, that said that 8 meant "indefinite".
But he failed to grasp what they meant, cause he was busy going full @Fox.
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@kt_ Sure, misdescribe it if it makes you feel smarter.
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@pie_flavor said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@kt_ Sure, misdescribe it if it makes you feel smarter.
Let's try! @pie_flavor
did nothing wrongwas right.Nope, same level of smart feelings.
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The new iPad Pro sets a new record for iPad durability!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUBsxCcJeUc
Well, I didn't specify if it was the record for the most or least durable...
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@Atazhaia Bit of a spoiler in the thumbnail
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@TimeBandit said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@loopback0 You like to pay more to get shittier hardware?
Unrelated to Apple, one joke I heard when the Lamborghini brand was acquired by Audi/Volkswagen, was "well, finally maybe the A/C on Lamborghinis will actually work this time"
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@hungrier said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@Atazhaia Bit of a spoiler in the thumbnail
Not really. I doubt any phone would withstand being bent that much.
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@Atazhaia HOLY FUCK THOSE METAL-ON-METAL SCRATCHING SOUNDS AT 2:40! PUT A TRIGGER WARNING OR SOMETHING!
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@GÄ…ska said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@hungrier said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@Atazhaia Bit of a spoiler in the thumbnail
Not really. I doubt any phone would withstand being bent that much.
You'd be surprised. Many phones nowadays have withstood his "try to bend the fuck out of it while it's turned on" test. But as explained in the video, the new ipad has basically no structural integrity.
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@hungrier said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@GÄ…ska said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@hungrier said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@Atazhaia Bit of a spoiler in the thumbnail
Not really. I doubt any phone would withstand being bent that much.
You'd be surprised. Many phones nowadays have withstood his "try to bend the fuck out of it while it's turned on" test.
Oh, he's testing by strength, not by angle. It makes a bit more sense now.
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@hungrier I was especially impressed by his Nintendo Switch stress-test.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUQK7DMys54
Or 5 reasons Tim Cook has ended up a bit too far up his own arse.
- It's more powerful than most computers.
- It's versatile. It's a scanner, camera, editing suite, notepad, cinema, music studio, book, and a computer.
- It goes anywhere thanks to LTE.
- It's as easy as this (with a focus on gestures).
- It's even better with Apple Pencil.
Considering how ridiculed I have seen this video be by Apple fans it shows they have lost touch a bit even amongst their own. :P
- Doesn't help how powerful it is when it's held back by the severely nerfed OS.
- Very much jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Bit too big to be a camera, creation tools very limited compared to what you get on a PC, etc.
- An option that can be built into any laptop, so nothing special there.
- Most gestures also work on MacBooks.
- So I need to pay extra money to make it into a decent creation tool? Got it. Even Samsung included a stylus with their pro tablets.
For the common user that the ad is targetting the iPad Pro is severely overpriced with little benefit over a regular iPad. For the serious creator the iPad Pro can only work as a companion device to a proper editing computer, not as a replacement. Where's the Apple professional suite for iPad for example? Where's Xcode for iPad? If Apple wants to make the iPad into a computer replacement they either need to release it with a full non-nerfed version of macOS, or dropping the walled garden of iOS and give at the very least the same freedoms as Android gives.
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@Atazhaia walled garden isn't going away, and I for one think it's a good thing. But the future of iOS is interesting, considering that Apple's supposed to be researching switch to ARM. Current iPad Pro sure as hell seems like a somewhat stepping stone for further development.
…At least I hope so. If not, it means that Apple is in the process of changing their strategy and trying to position their hardware simply as Veblen goods, because of market saturation. Which would be a good thing for them, I guess. Just not for me.
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@Atazhaia At least it's a merciful 47 seconds long. Plus eight seconds of black for some reason, I guess seeing suggested videos goes against Apple's brand model or something.
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@Atazhaia Dude do you just follow Apple around looking for reasons to complain?
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@loopback0 we all do.
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@loopback0 Apple is a very very easy company to make fun of nowadays. They still make good hardware and (in some cases) software, but their marketing department is full of shit. So yeah, making fun of and complaining about their marketing is something I do. Because it's out of touch with reality and in some cases outright lies about what you get. ("Sapphire" glass camera lenses that scratches at the same level as the regular scratch-resistant glass. Yeah...)
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@Atazhaia said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
their marketing department is full of shit
You mean, it's possible to be otherwise?
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@Applied-Mediocrity usually marketing has some sort of basis in reality. They're still full of shit, but some of that shit is actually accurate.
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I don't make fun of Apple or follow what they are doing, because I find their product completely ridiculous and their attitude consumer hostile. Plus their user base is some kind of mass stockholm syndrome manifestation.
I mean, it's not really funny.
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@MrL said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
and their attitude consumer hostile
Paying for services is still better than being the product, though.
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@topspin depends. Do I lose anything by being a product? Because by paying, I lose money.
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@topspin What about doing both? The latter seems unavoidable no matter what you use, it seems.
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@topspin said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
Paying for services is still better than being the product, though.
That depends I guess. I was switching from Windows Phone not long ago and choosing between two evils I chose android. I'm not ecstatic about it, but you know, at least I have a headphone jack.
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@GÄ…ska said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@topspin depends. Do I lose anything by being a product? Because by paying, I lose money.
Privacy, of course.
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@MrL it's not like I have any privacy when using paid products either.
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@GÄ…ska said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@MrL it's not like I have any privacy when using paid products either.
Bollocks.
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@MrL to clarify - there are lots of services where paying doesn't give you any extra privacy.
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@GÄ…ska said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@MrL to clarify - there are lots of services where paying doesn't give you any extra privacy.
Sure, but all free ones rob you of privacy.
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@MrL bollocks.
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@MrL most convenient/advanced/feature-rich ones do. If you really care about privacy, there are both paid and free options that do not make you a product. (Mozilla's stuff for example, or DuckDuckGo, or lots of other open source/free software stuff, including most Linux distros). Frankly Firefox is on par with Chrome (or maybe not really on par but as close as it doesn't matter).
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@admiral_p said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
there are both paid and free options that do not make you a product
Uhuh, and they make money exactly how?