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When the "unofficial Apple PR department" is more critical about Apple than you are
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Yes, maybe files will be gone (like mainframes are gone) in 10 years (and it will be great!), but in the meantime there's a transition.

And like GUIs had CLIs as a backup, "Pro" tablets should be able to work with files (as a backup).
Don't despair, I think iOS 13 will fix this.

But this notion that files aren't important is ignorant of the last 20 years - even the non-experts grasp the concept and use USB flash drives every day.

Btw, Google shows how a Files app can look like (not limited to dry folder hierarchy).
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Doing spec comparisons was never satisfying for smartphones.

(a) "value-for-money was always better on Android
(b) but that doesn't matter if the XP is still better on iOS (e.g. smooth scrolling)

droid-life.com/2018/09/14/if-…
That said, the value-for-money gap seems to be widening over the last few years.
As if Apple realised for themselves that they aren't here to transform all the peoples lives - just the ones that can afford it.
Otherwise they would offer a "medium-cost" iPhone as well, and not only cater the luxury niche (where margins are high).
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Back in 2016 I wrote a piece where I argued Apple needs to (re)gain a simple and straightforward portfolio logic.

That's what I said about naming shemes.
I stand corrected. iPhone 82S sounds way better (and more logical) than iPhone X S MAX.

(I don't even know what the correct camel case is.)
So far, even the die-hard Apple fans have no defense for that naming. It is indeed Android-like.
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It's not black or white.

Some people want the smaller, some want the larger size. Just as some people want 11' laptops, and some want 17'.
Remember, not only did Apple took away the SE size, they also made the smallest model slightly bigger (XS > 8).
Which is a shame, since the new screen-to-body ratio on a smaller body would be enough for a lot of folks.
Unfortunately, nobody can really tell what the real demand for what screen size is, because screen sizes were always coupled with other factors, such as different price or fewer features. And Apple or any Android manufacturer never tried to decouple it.
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“Pivot” is an interesting choice of words. Sorta implies that one is pivoting from one thing (WIMPS) to something else. In which case the “something else” needs to be specified. apple.news/AfFMHcOI9QlK8e…
The whole dark matter search community reminds me of Daffy Duck in the episode quoted from IMDb here. [shockingly, I do not instantly find a gif of Daffy falling off said cliff.]
Reading this article does not inspire confidence. Sounds more like they’re poised to make the same mistakes all over again. Having spent decades in a fruitless search for WIMPs motivated by the WIMP miracle - an irrelevant numerical coincidence - might they decide to learn more?
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Department of Justice Announces Bump-Stock-Type Devices Final Rule

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Time for another pulp countdown, and today it's my top 10 public relations campaigns!
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At no 10: nuclear power! It's for nuclear families after all...
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GREAT achievement to the IDF for thwarting Hizbullah’s attack tunnels into the Galilee and Israeli civilians. Discovering tunnels is a vast challenge, and the time for National Security Awards and decorations will come, social-media cynicism aside.1/10
The tunnels are one component of a comprehensive Hizbullah offensive design, seeking a surprise ground operation in Israel in the next war or for separate terror attacks. Nasrallah is talking about it since 2011. 2/10
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Here is our prediction for how Apple will support reading NFC tags in iOS 12. This theory was developed after much research of publicly available information. Please follow along and ask any questions.

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If you haven't been following, Apple added an NFC controller to the iPhone 7 to enable Apple Pay (contactless payments). It wasn't until iOS 11 that support for reading NFC tags was added. That was a huge deal for the NFC industry.

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Apple announced “Marzapan” at WWDC—a much anticipated iOS <> OS X extension to App/UI frameworks on both platforms. It is both more and less interesting that many want or believe. Why? Appkit UIKit separateApps Kit getting some shared UIKit features like trackpad, app window, copy paste
Many were hoping for a merger of iOS + OSX—a refrigerator/toaster. @gassee pointed out in his post, there are too many things that don’t work/make sense across phone/tablet/legacy desktop. This is sooo true. mondaynote.com/ios-macos-what…
This goes beyond the core difficulty of adding touch to the existing OS X desktop and apps. Saying this is “difficult” rancors many b/c of the feeling that Windows “solves” this. It doesn’t. It makes it functional v. usable.
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