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Not always. After working for years at Apple I was told (in response to a bug report I filed about missing menu items) that Mac menus might totally change their contents if you PRESSED A MODIFIER KEY. WTF!

So every Mac menu conceivably had (has?) 7 sets of contents, 6 of which are essentially secret. Idiotic.

Autodesk loved to waste money acquiring products and companies and then letting them die.

They can also cause hearing loss.

Which is pretty depressing.

Meanwhile, Mac users STILL don't get a real Delete key; they get a Backspace key mislabeled "delete."

How about fixing the problem where Apple doesn't restore the minimized app when you switch to it?

Kind of defeats the purpose of tabbing through apps in the first place, when you leave it minimized in the dock after you switch to it.

DUHHHH Apple.

The difference is that Windows apps are far less likely to be a mess of floating windows than Mac apps are.

That's Apple for you. They should have abandoned the dumb one-menu-for-all-apps idea with the OS X transition, but nope. That would entail learning.

Then again, they DID implement Command-Tab app switching from Windows... but managed to screw it up by not restoring the app from a minimized state when you switch to it.

Everyone continues to ignore a glaring problem in the USA: Your health insurance should have nothing to do with your job.

When people carp about "benefits," that's really what they're talking about, isn't it? And it's an anachronistic result of incompetent legislation from the WWII era.

Fix THAT. Then we can all have "benefits" without any dependence on a particular job.

No. Uber has presented work for which they will pay a particular rate. Individuals can accept that rate and submit themselves as candidates for the job, or do something else with their time.

If someone posts a classified ad for a handyman to fix their stairs and offers $50, I can take it or not. But taking it and then whining that I didn't get benefits... and being abetted in that whining by clueless politicians... is disgraceful.

"they'll now have to provide those employees with a bunch of benefits they currently do not provide and pay a number of taxes they currently do not pay."

Thereby driving them out of business and eliminating this form of employment (which is clearly contractual and not "regular").

Apple has insulted users and embarrassed itself with this dogshit keyboard and the pathetic emoji bar... on a $4000 "pro" computer, no less.

Then there's the glued-together chassis, the soldered-in RAM and drives... when those go bad (and they will), you get to just throw the computer away instead of performing a routine replacement.

Apple's shoddily-made computers should be hanging from pegs in blister packs at Walgreen's.

It's too bad that Apple has given up on real computers. And Windows is a pathetic mess... so in the end, computers are returning whence they came: to the domain of scientists, hobbyists, and other serious users.

So what do they do?

Revoke the app and developer account of that guy who wrote the free transit-mapping app for Montreal.

Google: hypocrisy on a colossal scale.

Forbes is such a pathetic joke now.

Lately they churn out another "Apple headed for disaster" article every day. Someone there is shorting AAPL and thinking no one will figure it out.

Very cool. Now if we can keep corrupt local politicians from destroying our airports and turning the land over to developers (this means you, SANTA MONICA)... transportation might continue to advance.

Would it not be more economically prudent to simply rent a small office? When I looked into these shared spaces, I found them to be a significant rip-off.

I liked the post except for its repeated use of the nonsense buzzphrase "virtue signaling." WTF is that supposed to mean?

We have lots and lots of words; I don't believe this BS phrase fills an otherwise unfillable gap.

I think the point is not that they don't deliver a service; it's that the prospects for that service are far less rosy than they want you to believe, and the company is being gutted by disgraceful profiteering, nepotism, and what some people might call stealing.

For the near future, I'd speculate that human-scale multirotor copters are not going to hold enough energy to be practical.

A design that lets you save energy after takeoff by using lift from wings and forward propulsion... maybe.

Why not Kotlin? Isn't it Google's anointed successor to Java?

I like it a lot. It's really too bad Android doesn't use it as a native language.

Funny, I too stopped using C++ around 2011. Recently I had to delve into Swift and learn it with great urgency... then my project changed direction toward C++ and Qt.

I find the '14 and '17 additions vastly improve C++ and in fact added things that I had just come to appreciate in Swift. So don't be too put off; learning the new stuff will help you if you need to adopt a more-recent language too.

"but can repurpose our existing Kotlin code and share with iOS"

How so?

OK, but they didn't attempt to use Qt.

I'm currently working on a project where we have indeed decided we needed to go Swift/Kotlin native on each platform, but with the long-term goal of building a cross-platform app with Qt.

Qt certainly has its issues, but I respect what its developers have accomplished. And it appears to offer adequate ways to do common things like parse JSON, and it abstracts things like Bluetooth usage and file storage in the apps' sandboxes; so I don't see some of the hurdles cited in this article.

There is no additional function afforded by making the laptop thinner through the implementation of a defective keyboard and reduced battery volume.

Nice strawman, but portability has long since been achieved.

You say you prioritize usability but then defend an idiotic and regressive design that impedes usability so disgracefully that even Apple has had to admit failure.

The trackpads are another failure, being way too big and thus suffering from spurious contacts from the heels of your hands. Why didn't Apple at least make the giant trackpads useful by having the Pencil work on them?

Yeah, another brilliant Apple "solution" to a problem that doesn't exist. WTF?

They did the same thing to the Eject key: They put a hardware DELAY on it, so you couldn't remap it to be a real Delete key.

How can Apple work so hard to screw up a KEYBOARD? Incredible.

A cover isn't going to fix the inherent shittiness of Apple's keyboard.

And no video of it. Brilliant.

I've added up all the shits that are given, and the stunning total is... zero.

Whoever wrote this doesn't know WTF a quorum is.

Interesting! I went to download Alda, but there's only a Windows executable and an Amiga file...