theinternetman

>I think one of the biggest challenges for Twitter is on-boarding new users.

This is worse than ever, they invest most of their effort in getting you to follow their cherry picked celeb users for your country. Then they spend the rest of their effort trying to ban you.

- Don't give us an email > account locked

- Don't give us a phone number > account locked

- Don't change your egg avatar > shadow banned

>These are all awesome uses of Twitter that anyone can benefit from without needing to have any followers.

fyi accounts with low or no follower counts are now auto-blocked using the new safety features by most important people so this is no longer true.

> and they've managed to ethically out compete them with flying colors

Yeah and it only took 5 attempts.

(Poke, Bolt, Slingshot, Flash, Instagram Stories)

It's not just machine learning, 3D rendering is moving over to GPU as well and there is next to no support for anything other than CUDA in that space today.

Not everything starts and ends with gaming in the high end computer space.

Still means you need a PC, mainstream is all tablets, laptops and consoles.

If vr ever goes mainstream beyond a mobile phone gimmick addon it will be via Playstation or Xbox

> relative experience in hardware, which exacerbates their already high labor cost

But everyone in the thread is saying Google didn't really manufacture it and it's just a rebranded HTC device

To be fair the iPhone build quality and hardware design look like a premium product. This looks like a chinese knockoff

Hardware design on this feels entirely uninspired, Chinese knockoff of last years iPhone and Samsung devices.

If they truly started from scratch and ended up here then this hardware initiative is going to fall flat. But I'm gonna guess they didn't start from scratch and this is just a rebadged device as people suspect.

Why on earth would you launch such a cheap plasticky looking device in such a similar form than your competitors device last year when their update was moving that device into more premium materials (iPhone 6 looks positively cheapo next to the 7) and making it seamless.

Surprised they went with a form factor so similar to Samsung and the iPhone 6, just looks pretty dated really.

Think now would have been a good opportunity to go for something less rounded. An iPhone 4 style sharp design would probably end up looking futuristic next to all the faceless rounded blobs the market is full of.

I haven't noticed anything because the only thing it ever managed to do reliably is set timers so that's all I ever used it for.

and one in 20 times you'll get a "here is the timer" where it just shows you yesterdays already complete dinner timer

Finding these heavily curated advertorials Apple has been pushing out (This and the recent wired advertorials come to mind) a bit of a sign that not everything is sunny at One Infinite Loop.

> the Lab VR demos

Wii minigames in VR are still just Wii minigames, whole thing feels like something I'd expect from a hackday from a company as supposedly prolific as valve.

Got a strong feeling the talent is long gone.

> Rockstar North's facility in Edinburgh has roughly the same employee count (slightly more by Wikipedia's count), and all they do is put out one new game every 5 years or so.

Yeah they actually manage to ship games (that manage to make back the entire production budget in pre-orders alone), not just sit on their hands running an online store with an outdated and clunky client.

>I don't care how the message is sent, as long as it is sent.

Friend of mine has an iPad and an iPhone, often her iPhone data plan runs out so I send a message, it's blue and acts like it's delivered.... then I get a reply 6 hours later when she finally gets home and sees it on her iPad because the iPhone never received it because it didn't have a data connection.

Worst part is sometimes I know I need to send it SMS and it's a real pain trying to convinced iMessage to send SMS when it think the person is online with iMessage due to an iPad being left on somewhere. Can never remember which tap and hold dance actually gives me the SMS option.

>modern

With the fad of bundling up web browsers and web code into an app this phrase is starting to have negative connotations for me.

> Why do you even need an app if you're paying your own kid?

It answers the first world tech-bro problem of having to keep cash handy and engage with your kid face to face not face to screen to screen to face.

> Note that I am not a parent

Does that really matter? Starting to get a bit fed up with this concept that parents are somehow blessed with esoteric wisdom that people without children can't possibly grasp.

It's a fairly simple concept and surely even a childless person can understand where and why this went wrong. It's not as hard to imagine life with children as parents seem to believe.

Just seems a bit absurd to me the amount of effort put into an idea that can be replicated in your own home by putting money in a jar for the kid and then when it's full enough to buy skyrim or whatever put the money in your pocket and order it off amazon for them.

Get to engage with your child on a person to person basis too… not parent via an app and servers.

Not to mention I really don't understand where all the investor money went with no product to show for it. Seen as the payment part never got fully fleshed out we're left with a several thousand dollar todo list...

> Ahhh, the old "ideas during casual talking" trope. In all my years I've never seen anything of significance come out of people talking over lunch

Depends on your job really, roles where creativity is required this sort of interaction is essential.

To be fair Sketch is just a copy of Fireworks

Maybe because apps cheapen the experience…

I like taking my friends to hidden gem restaurants I find myself because if its good they'll be surprised. If an app was an charge any restaurant it points me to will be rammed and a sucky experience anyway.

> once they realized it.

Why did it reach shipping before they realised it is the real question.

This is a terrible idea before it even leaves the whiteboard.

>Long holds on mobile are excruciating interactions for people, and 3D touch fixes that

But it doesn't provide an easier way to access long hold functionality, instead of provides different functionality that could be activated accidentally instead of long hold functionality.

e.g it doesn't make deleting apps less tedious, it instead adds a shortcut menu you might activate by accident when trying to delete the app.

Calling this dystopian is giving it too much credit, it's just plain grim.

This would be true if they knew how it was compromised, they've been silent on that issue so far.

The current version could be being compromised this minute for all we know.

Not sure why anyone with a compromised machine would rather have the risk of a lingering backdoor just to save 1-2 hours clean formatting and reinstalling

How is that any more secure than just providing a download?

I updated in app and don't seem to be, an official confirmation of how this happened and why in-app updates were seemingly not affected would go a long way.

> How do you know when a man in the office becomes a father?

How do you know when a woman in the office is actually pregnant?

Going to go feel the bump up yourself?

Skype feels like it runs just as well on my brand new laptop as it used to do on my 9 year old machine.

As in not well at all and whenever any progress has been made with computing speed the Skype team have refactored their app to perform just as poorly on the new hardware.

Also why is the "Skype Home" part of the app just a facebook advert? I don't have an FB account so Skype tells me to get one every time I open it. Seemingly FB is more important than my contacts.