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It seems like they changed their sync model. The client syncs with the email provider directly now instead of using their server. This is great.


Unfortunately, most reviewers agreed that the Hasselblad camera is not much more than a "proof of concept", and the photo quality from the phone itself is often better.


Which is sad - it's an opportunity squandered.



I had that installed for a while and totally forgot about it. Then I was very confused for a few months about people putting the word Butt in their new product offerings. Then I realized it and uninstalled because I felt silly.


Did you use LaTeX for that?


> Did you use LaTeX for that?

I'm not OP, but yes. The "creator" field in the PDF is: "LaTeX with hyperref package" and the "producer" field is "xdvipdfmx (0.7.9)".



RapGenius (not genius) is more about the annotations than the actual lyrics.


How would people make ipad apps?


With a bluetooth keyboard and a port of XCode. Possibly paired with a CI/build service from apple for testing.


Not a chance. They'd lose 99% of the serious developers. I couldn't imagine doing app development without 5 terminals, photoshop, xcode, and a web browser open at the same time; running git, grep and a series of shell scripts invoking all kinds of unix tools and imagemagick and ffmpeg and so on. If iOS can ever deliver that then we've gone full circle back to macOS.

To be productive you need big monitors and overlapping windows and terminals and drag&drop, and beyond a physical keyboard you need a pointing device that doesn't require you to cover the things you are looking at with your fingers. And nobody wants to sit for 8 hours a day stretching their arms out to touch a monitor or crouch over a tablet on a table.


The way you imagine productivity works like that. The past is funny, because it seems like that way worked for us and so it should be good enough for anyone.

As I watch my kids using iPads regularly, I realize they don't really know anything at all about a 'desktop' or why its so complicated. We can argue well they need to learn how a computer works, its important etc etc. Maybe they don't for the most part and could just build on top of our knowledge base to get to the next place. We are the old people telling kids to get off our lawn.


exactly. the future of productivity looks like high-waisted pants and talking to your OS. offices will still be open-plan.


Good luck mixing vocal user interface and open-plan offices!


So your saying it would take.... courage!


That would limit their dev environment to making native apps for three device classes (tablet, phone, watch). It would neglect their massive presence in the web dev community among others. Along with probably eliminating them from the university student market (as much as they're in it now). And definitely eliminate them from the enterprise market (I can almost, but not quite, get one now at work, it'd be gone for good if I only had an iPad option).

iPads make good, portable devices for a lot of things. But it'd be a foul up of epic proportions to try to move their laptop/desktop users to it.


It's painful enough using XCode with a Macbook Pro.


Americans pay more in taxes for heath coverage (combined) than anyone else...


Anyone here from the omnigroup? I'd love to hear some behind the scenes from those guys!


Can you expand?


Without going into detail that violates an NDA or reveals who I am, I've seen the back-end database/billing/network monitoring infrastructure for the three largest mobile network operators in Pakistan. It's scary. The banks in PK are worse. The lack of giving a fuck (or clue) is endemic to the region. People in south asia build their networks the same way they build their municipal electrical grids, in-premises 230VAC electricity, and municipal gas pipeline networks (in a very scary slapped together way).

This may be partially explained by a brain drain effect where everyone who really knows what they're doing on a *nix platform leaves the country to work for $70,000+ USD/year somewhere outside of PK/IN/BD. Those who are left are very far from the best network security, network engineering or sysadmin talents.


"This may be partially explained by a brain drain effect ..."

Arguably, nobody with a brain would still be living in a failed state that is a sponsor of global terror.


Now that's just xenophobic and ignorant, you expect all 175 million people to go where? It's like blaming every single person in Maricopa County, AZ for the actions of Joe Arpaio.

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


It sounds like you went through existential depression, Glad to hear you're doing better now.


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