On the contrary, I believed that most “tech-savvy” people were ecstatic that not only was the scummy behaviour of some of the largest tech enterprises finally being reined in, but smaller companies were finally incentivised to take our information security seriously.
The 5c was essentially an iPhone 5 (the previous years iPhone) in a plastic shell, with some other minor differences. Given that Apple are continuing to sell the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 you could say that the spirit of the 5c lives on (iPhone 7 is $450, vaguely the same price as the 5C).
I agree emphatically, and it’s why I’m a member of the BCS (British Computing Society). It’s absurd that we have people building essential public infrastructure with close to no repercussions when their failure screws people over.
After they announced they were removing the ability to top up via debit card I was concerned as much of their utility at the time came from being able to share costs with friends from an isolated account with a lower balance. The app has lower friction for most actions however, so I now use Monzo as a distribution account to send funds to my other bank accounts.
I still don’t use the card itself at all however as they have no cash back, and fwiw the app has started slowing down in recent months. The frame rate consistently drops noticeably below 60fps when scrolling through my transactions, for example.
You can however consistently swipe from the left side of the screen to go back. There are a couple of apps which I suspect were not written by iOS users where this functionality is broken (such as Valve’s Steam iOS app), but those are far in the minority.
To my eyes this seemed like a completely normal amount of whitespace. The only thing I personally prefer that you would reasonably reduce is moving the left block delimiter from its own line (But left block braces being on their own line is fairly common for C/C++ projects afaik)
As a former windows phone user and .NET developer who is currently a mobile developer, Microsoft definitely treated mobile developers worse than any other company.
They killed what small progress they’d made on their ecosystem 2 times, simply because they got bored and decided they didn’t like the technology stack they’d previously mandated and supported. They deserved to get buried in that space.
Meanwhile Apple have kept what is essentially the same technology stack for the past decade. Sure there’s been some pain, but almost all of it had some purpose that moved the development of apps forward.
Didn't their ad business fail because they refused to share/collect as much user data, and hence advertisers were less willing to spend on their platform?
I’d be interested to see how Siri performs on different devices. The Siri on your phone is not the same Siri that you have on your Apple TV. The Apple TV version is much better at giving information about tv shows, movies and music, but terrible in comparison for everything else.
Because corporation tax is a tax on profit. Profit is roughly revenue - expenses. How do you ever reliably calculate Google's expenses for the UK? It's basically always going to be a pseudo made up number between total world wide expenses and 0, and shockingly they declare the highest number they think they can get away with.
True, but then it's not on one line anymore, and the code likely ends up on more lines. If only there was some other version of the code that took up less lines and characters... :)
Microsoft was hit with an anti-trust suit in Europe at a time when they had >90% market share in desktop computing. Bundling Internet Explorer was seen as abusing their dominant market position.
In Europe, iOS has around 20% market share, whilst Android sits close to 70%. It's really hard to argue that Apple are exploiting their dominant market position. You'd have to count iPhone as its own market.
Looks cool. There's a mistake on the learn more page though that you should fix.
“Now any time you have your phone your new garage door opener is too.”
I believe that's why they were originally added, to protect the disk in the event of a drop.
My early 2013 13" MBPr definitely has both an SSD and accelerometers, though I don't know if they kept them for later models.
Cool app/idea btw!
I don't think I've seen anyone suggest that Uber is cleaner compared to other forms of transport, just merely more convenient than normal taxi services.
I also don't think switching to pure public transportation is a viable solution in a lot of circumstances. Yes it can be very good when you're travelling between common destinations, but once your destination is more than 10 minutes walk from the train/bus station, the journey time quickly starts becoming burdensome. It's also nice to have a redundant system in place for the rare occasion that the public transport network fails (line upgrades, malfunction, bomb scares, etc).
And another... I ordered a wake up light clock from Amazon, whilst under a free prime trial. There was a problem with the courier so I contact them and a week later they send me another which arrives the next day. Later, they get the original clock back from the courier, and refund my order (so free clock). Additionally they extended my prime trial by another month.
Oh yeah, of course. I forgot about advance tickets because there weren't any available to get me to Stansted for my flight (needed to arrive by 12pm).
Even now the cheapest tickets from Nottingham to Stansted are £52 sans railcard for the end of January. Maybe Nottingham-Stansted airport is a special case?
Some digging and there are advance tickets to Ely available for £5, and Ely to Stansted airport is £14 for a regular ticket.