Posts by Ho Ho Hipster 23 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Aug 2014
>Apple have instructional videos built into the mouse's Preference settings that show you how to use every gesture.
Not the gesture that comes to mind when encountering yet another example of Think Different [sic] Because You're Worth It, even when different = plain, posily crass.
Or am clicking in the wrong place to find the "Deploying the One- / Two-fingered F**k O** Apple Salute" video?
"To me, this seems like bad design"
Anyone not encased in the hype-field knows that Apple does bad design, as well as good design, just as everyone else does.
I've just carefully wrapped Sellotape around another part of my iPad charging cable where it's starting another split in its oh-so-beautifully-thin-ness. I haven't had to do that to a non-Apple cable for many, many years. It's not the only example of "well designed" form over poorly designed function.
I imagine that if Apple had really been the supreme creator of the whole universe they would have made beautiful swifts (*) that were thinner than the thinnest size zero model but fell out of the sky on their maiden flight. And acolytes would have bowed before the pure genius of the Swift-Emperor's New Feathers.
(*) Birds that spend all of their lives, except for the new-bird-making process, on the wing; that fly just above a river surface, executing many high speed turns and catching tiny insects in ways that make Tom Cruise's Maverick look like a tyro.
"It allows users to press down on any part of the device and then detects how much pressure they are applying by responding to haptic vibrations."
Responding /with/ haptic vibrations, surely?
Haptic refers to a feedback, i.e. output, mechanism.
Or else it responds /to/ sensors: inputs.
Warfare becomes super-cyber, run by cyber-spook-geeks.
Human fighters (army / navy / air force) are side-lined.
Human fighters (with actual, cell-mangling guns) get fed up and take their actual guns to shoot at spook-geeks.
War returns to historical norms - shoot-em-up.
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What they (and all online advertisers) don't track is how many serious / capable potential buyers are put off big-time by being tracked, spied upon, manipulated.
The most significant effect such practices have is to tell me which sellers to avoid.
The ones that treat me with respect (don't track / advertise at) but still provide good quality / real service are the ones I'm most likely to buy from / talk about.
This is a message that all sellers of actual goods / services would do well to heed and all sellers of advertising (smoke-and-mirrors trade) would wish them not to.
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