It is actually incredibly clever and never thought about it until now. I can relate to so many services I have spent some time curating, managing, triaging, etc ...
It helped me create an emotional connection with the product I am using and certainly will generate an emotion if the service will closed or if they introduce features that break the existing user flow.
Couldn't disagree more with the first 2 paragraphs. It feels like saying Apple publishes a slightly different version of its iPhone every year. I think you will find plenty of differences - even major ones between the first iPhone and the latest one. Same thing with Nintendo games. IMHO, Nintendo is probably the best developer in the world and have proven this again and again.
Completely agree with your last paragraph though.
There clearly was a discoverability issue with 3D Touch. When you knew which app supported the feature, it was awesome but there was no way of knowing in advance if there was support for it before using it.
Long pressing an icon or anything just to see that nothing happens was just frustrating. Long term effect was that users probably felt this wasn't reliable/supported enough to use the feature at all or at least not in the scale Apple wanted.
If I had to guess, I would say that the HN crowd is not fond of unverified claims that are not backed by any source other than the person personal opinion.
> "Obj-C is a much better framework language than C++.
How and why is that true?"
Anyone could throw these sort of claims about absolutely anything and doesn't elevate the debate at all.
> "I honestly think Objective-C is a big part of Apple's OS success."
> Seriously, who cares about a warranty on a $6 thing?
Just because you do not care doesn't mean it should apply to everyone.
My parents would definitely use a warranty on a $6 thing if it had one because they do not spend blindly all their money on one-time items that cost $6 each. Sorry but I have to disagree with your reasoning.
The problem with this reasoning is that it doesn't apply to countries outside the US. Take Europe for example where the healthcare system is miles ahead compared to the US yet Europe is clearly not the most innovative space because of this.
and it reassigned thousands of engineers across the company to fix a security vulnerability earlier this year, delaying other Marcus products by months, The Journal reported.
I wonder if it was related to the development of Apple Card.
Ultimately people will vote with their wallet if they truly want this or not and no matter how long I look at this, I don’t see it being the future we are heading.
Maybe the goal was to find a way to get a lot of medical records and it didn't make much sense to continue Deepmind Health once that goal has been achieved - hence the move to Google Health.
> WebKit that was forked by Google because they couldn't collaborate with Apple?
You say "they couldn't collaborate" I say "Google really wanted to compete".
Remember that it was Google who decided to perform a fork because they had a different approach than Apple for how "multi-process" should be implemented. Google had an implementation that they didn't want to integrate into the Webkit branch - hence the Blink fork.[1]
Also Apple would have been happy if they could use the Google's implementation instead of using their own - they said that repeatedly [2]
You can also find more details of the story here. It looks more and more obvious that the decision to create a WebKit fork was more political than technical : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5490242
> There is no open source in iOS and the entire platform has an anti open source culture.
People really have short memory and unfortunately have too much biais to even make a simple Google Search to get some informations. Trying to define this as "one is better than the others related to X" is childish at best.
"Not sure what the HK protesters endgame is here."
People are fed up about how the system works and about their life and the life of people they know. They want things to be "better" without having to clearly define and write a 167 page law that will probably not benefit them.
People are expressing their dissatisfaction and IMHO that's a valid justification for protesters and good enough for me.
Same thing happens in France where police are filmed gazing and beating some people out (even old people)[1]
Someone already lost an eye few months ago.[2]
President guard is disguised as a policeman and beat some people on the streets. [3]
And on and on. The issue is that people are starting to lose trust in how the police and the gouvernment operate and are seeing that some actions don't seem fair to them.