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litso··on Apple Watch Adoption
Personally I find having navigation directions on my wrist very useful, especially when bicycling/walking
litso··on Uber Driver Tip-Hustling Schemes
I've had this problem numerous times at LAX: driver will call then cancel when i tell them i'm not going downtown ($50) and instead to the west side ($15). I waited on the curb for an hour while 7 drivers canceled on me one after another.

Uber will often give you a credit when you report this but they don't seem to be actually fixing the problem.

litso··on Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the Center of the Tech World
Really cool picture of the B-Geary street car turning right off of Market St. en route to the Transbay terminal.
litso··on Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals
the iPhone 7 comes with a lightning to headphone adapter. plug that into the side of your new macbook pro...
litso··on Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals
As someone how has to lug their MacBook from office to home everyday, i'm really looking forward to upgrading. As for the ports, a good 5k screen will work as a dock for the assortment of USB devices, headphones etc that I currently have to connect one by one each morning.
litso··on Some Google Pixel devices shutting down at 30% battery
They might be sending you a refurbished phone instead of replacing the one in your existing phone
litso··on Fear of Apple
Apps behave the same way that other kinds of media does online:

1. sell for rock bottom prices 2. become a hit or don't 3. their popularity if any is short lived and highest when they debut

It may be the case that Apple is fine with this phenomenon, but its a pretty big leap to say they are creating it.

litso··on Ask HN: Idea Sunday
I work on an iOS app called AGOGO that takes a different approach than most podcasting apps. Instead of subscribing to shows you browse channels podcasts, tv clips or text to speech audio. Would be interested to hear what you guys think www.agogo.com