Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox

Re:Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor ... by mercer on Saturday June 12, 2021 @08:39PM (#27488721)

Much as I tend to be in favor of language evolving, I react almost viscerally to 'compute' as a noun. It is a major irk.

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Re:Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor ... by etaioinshrdlu on Saturday June 12, 2021 @10:17PM (#27489215)

Wait a minute, did you just "noun" irk? I'm irked.

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Re:Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor ... by evv on Saturday June 12, 2021 @10:51PM (#27489358)

Wait a minute, did you just "verb" noun? I'm adjectived

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Re:Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor ... by dwaite on Sunday June 13, 2021 @06:18PM (#27497071)

Yes it is called "verbing"

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Re:Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor ... by toxik on Sunday June 13, 2021 @08:06AM (#27491842)

Did you just adjective adjective?

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Re:Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor ... by arthurcolle on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:49AM (#27493560)

Technically he just verbed the noun 'adjective'

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Re:Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor ... by toxik on Sunday June 13, 2021 @01:42PM (#27494523)

No, it’s used as an adjective here

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Re:Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor ... by JohnJamesRambo on Sunday June 13, 2021 @12:07AM (#27489672)

When people say they grok something it hurts me deep inside.

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Re:Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor ... by sqqqqrly on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:32AM (#27493418)

https://www.etymonline.com/word/grok#etymonline_v_14297

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Re:Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor ... by hattar on Sunday June 13, 2021 @12:23AM (#27489732)

Why?

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Re:Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor ... by snowwrestler on Sunday June 13, 2021 @12:59AM (#27489871)

Maybe because to truly grok a person, you have to eat them [1]. I’d imagine that could hurt that person deep inside if they were alive when you started.

[1] Per the end of A Stranger In a Strange Land

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Re:Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor ... by Retric on Sunday June 13, 2021 @09:33AM (#27492428)

Eating someone isn’t required to grok them in a Stranger in a Strange Land, it’s an aid in doing so.

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Re:Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor ... by killjoywashere on Sunday June 13, 2021 @02:03AM (#27490167)

I wonder if that whale groks Michael Packard.

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Re:Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor ... by eps on Sunday June 13, 2021 @09:32AM (#27492422)

Yeah, tell me about it. People nouning things... argh, eyeroll.

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Re:Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor ... by Spivak on Saturday June 12, 2021 @11:47PM (#27489587)

What’s a better noun for “abstract resource I can use to do computations on?” Because computer is too general — literally encompassing everything, or too specific — as a synonym for a PC.

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