Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic

Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by user-the-name on Thursday November 19, 2020 @05:47AM (#25148174)

I mean, if you try this with a real frog, the frog will actually just jump out when it gets too hot.

It's just a metaphor. It's not a law of nature, nor is it even a GOOD metaphor.

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by Wowfunhappy on Thursday November 19, 2020 @09:36AM (#25149900)

Wow, today I learned. I really did think it was real, but looks like it's not:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2006/09/the-b...

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by Nasrudith on Thursday November 19, 2020 @10:18AM (#25150353)

I believe to get the behavior you need a brainless frog - they are shockingly functional due to how much behavior is in bodily reflexes. In that context the brainless frog sort of fits as a metaphor of "cargo culted" or tradition fixed behavior or single strategy. An approach well adapted enough to the expected environment that no thinking is required but is doomed as soon as it has to deal with change.

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by andrekandre on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:10PM (#25154385)

sorry to be pedantic, but if you believe wikipedia, it is true (just you probably cant reproduce it on your kitchen stove)

The New Psychology (1897): "a live frog can actually be boiled without a movement if the water is heated slowly enough; in one experiment the temperature was raised at a rate of 0.002°C per second, and the frog was found dead at the end of 2½ hours without having moved."

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

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by joshspankit on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:08PM (#25153135)

I was today years old..

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