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It would be perfectly sensible to force large platform vendors to let you install arbitrary software. No problem at all. Doesn’t mean that also has to apply to, I don’t know, refrigerators with WiFi. Or cars.
I see consistency, not a trend. Maybe a slight trend towards a softening, towards being more willing to admit fault.
Whether it’s brushed metal interfaces or butterfly keyboards, Apple isn’t good about admitting fault. Most of all openly.
However, my experience is also (and I don’t think you can be successful for so long without that) that they are still reactive. Maybe sometimes a bit slow, maybe without saying they did something wrong (just quietly fixing it), but NeXT-Apple does eventually change shit things.
Except, obviously when it’s deeply tied to something they hold strategically very dear. Then they are completely unable to.
Overall my main point is that I don’t see a trend where you seem to be seeing one. Especially not post 2007.
Doesn’t mean they won’t establish procedures for other repairs in the future or find ways to reuse parts in refurbished (repair replacement) devices in the future.
Seems inconsiderate from my parents, but I think they just didn’t think about that aspect.
$2400 is just the price for the device minus the profit margin (would be a 31% margin, which fits with Apple‘s typical margins).
It‘s just weird feelings based hyper cynical doom and gloom. I get that very recent inflation does feel like shit (if you actively remember paying substantially less for something just a couple months, years ago) but at some point that effect has to disappear, right? Especially given real wage growth in the US.
So, yeah, people in the US. Explain yourselves. And people in Europe, explain yourselves, too. (For Germany my hypothesis is horrid political communication by the governing parties. They are doing many of the right things and lots of great things are being implemented after years of standstill but they do not manage to communicate all of that competently.)
Obviously all the examples you named are not a good fit for radio buttons. Except maybe the last one where you can just add an “invalid vote“ radio button choice.
But that doesn’t mean that for a fairly standard “pick one” vote radio buttons aren’t a good choice! You don’t have to be consistent within the concept of voting, you just have to be consistent for the one relevant use case!
Radio buttons are the correct metaphor for picking one option among a list of options. Why use something else? What use interface element do you think exists that works for this kind of interaction?
I’m honestly confused why you think radio buttons are the wrong type of interface element for this interaction. What‘s the reasoning as to why this seems so obvious to you? I’m honestly just trying to understand you.
You do not want to influence people by presenting them with a default (already checked) choice. (You also typically want to randomize the order, at least when there is no inherent order to the options, e.g. when you are asking about frequency.)
Surveys are also the place where that distinction between single choice (radio buttons) and multiple choice (checkboxes) becomes most apparent because surveys tend to liberally mix the two, so any additional UI signposts you can use to help people filling out the survey are helpful. (The typical recommendation for multiple choice is to still explicitly call out in text that multiple options can be checked.)
Surveys sometimes also have the absolutely wild combined list with checkboxes and – typically as the fixed last option even if you randomize the rest of the options – a radio button (e.g. “None of the above”) that automatically unchecks all other options (and is unchecks itself if any other option is picked).
I don’t think this exists in any spec anywhere but is the most normal thing in the world in most survey software.
I‘m always very precise with whether I use checkboxes or radio buttons when designing surveys.
So, checking out Apple‘s first party apps it seems that checkboxes are either solid color round circles (just the outline when unchecked) with a checkmark in the middle (for multi selections in lists) or just toggles (typically in settings).
Those round checkboxes I could only find being used for list selections (even when the list is horizontal, e.g. when sharing a photo). Toggles for settings.
Radiobuttons seem to always come with one element already selected. I couldn’t find an instance of an empty list where you select one element. In those cases (e.g. when picking your WiFi network) they are just a solitary checkmark on the left without the circle.
It‘s internally consistent (as I assume visionOS is, too) and the checkbox design in visionOS is actually closer to iOS than macOS. I assume that‘s the origin with quite some history behind it. Nearly two decades.
I think the more exact statement would be that as far as iOS is concerned the checkbox already was dead for nearly two decades.
As far as UI conventions go I‘m not too worried. What worries me a bit more that this much more clearly frames visionOS (as well as running iPad apps) as a iOS descendant when this might be the platform with the space to be more clearly in the tradition of the Mac.
I have an example from Germany, though, for you: stores selling newspapers and magazines basically have no choice on what exactly to sell. The goal of this regulation is that no matter where you are, basically all publications are available everywhere easily.
In that sense stores are sort of forced to act sort of like ISPs for print publications. They just have to offer everything.
Taking care to remove liquid from the port just as well makes sense simply because you do not want to have water in there when you plug the phone in and water in ports just doesn’t dry as easily as water on some surface.
In practice iPhones are (like nearly all modern phones) extremely water resistent and very unlikely to be water damaged by exposure to water or even immersion in water.
Phones are quite durable. Exposure to water is always a risk, obviously (so is any handling of an untethered phone in the presence of hard surfaces) but I would argue it‘s one you can reasonably take.
For my personal risk tolerance I sometimes rinse my phone in running water (taking care not to directly point the running faucet at any of the openings of the phone), I generally don’t worry about spills (so the phone might be on the kitchen counter where spills are likely) and I also took it out into the sea to take some photos (but did not submerge it).
Just because it feels as though I do things because I can doesn’t mean that is actually true.
I do think that’s the case for some things but especially for new things that doesn’t seem like a common sense understanding of the world.
Context, context, context.
Could they also introduce some kind of page action menu? Maybe.
So from that perspective not liking precise time keeping (and structuring the day not using the sun but the clock) is very understandable.
A fake passport can trick some people some of the time but not all people all of the time. As such those $15k do not represent a full fake identity. Your history of enhancing with the state in some way, paying taxes, requesting a new passport, getting your drivers license, whatever, serves as defense in depth.
States are pretty good at this, actually.
Also, you account is worthless. Hard or impossible to replicate, sure, but if there is no buyer it‘s worth zero.
As instructed on the website we didn’t print anything out, so we just brought our passports and immigration was completely without any problems in Miami. Our passports also weren’t stamped as seems to be common now.
When we got into an immigration check near White Sands national park (closed road and checkpoint next to the road) the guards checking us were nightly confused that our passports weren’t stamped and we didn’t have a visa or any kind of printed documentation. And we were confused that we needed any of that?
One guard went to check on us with his computer, I guess, and everything seems to have checked out. So we didn’t need anything after all, it just seems that when you get into an immigration check those checking you might prefer to not go check with a computer, so printed documentation of some kind can get you going faster. (The guard also told me that we should have printed out documentation that we paid for ESTA?! Which seems confusing to me since presumably if we didn’t have paid we wouldn’t have been let in.)
I agree that employers should pay for adequate equipment (desk, chair, additional monitors, a great camera and headset, not just the laptop). A reasonable sum of money for mortage/rent and utilities should also be considered.
Though be careful what you wish for. One of the advantages of home office is that commuting time is not paid (with the somewhat reasonable justification that people can freely pick where they live and it’s not the employer’s job to subsidize those living far away). I think if those at home get something for the additional rent/mortage and utility use then those commuting should also get something for their commute time and lost flexibility. So in the end that comes to me out in a wash and I’m generally fine with no one getting anything.
I would describe the overlap as “people into films that are with a relatively high likelihood interesting”. Given who is directing and who is involved with both of those films that’s a relatively safe bet.
Fast & Furious in a double feature with Trolls. That’s what I would describe as double feature with little overlap. Both films have probably relatively distinct demographics that like them and the films are unlikely to be in any way interesting.
Just good to know for context.
I’m really not sure where this narrative is coming from. It‘s always so weird to me. Why be so wrong?
This all ain’t easy.
But I don’t need to to allow ambulances. I think this is the core of what many engineers fundamentally don’t get about rules and laws in society?
The framing of the rules clearly places this rule firmly in the real world, in a real park.