Liberty

A sentence that can be applied to mistakes everywhere, yes.

:D

Not for nothing but that chart is bullshit. Please elaborate. They throw everything and the kitchen sink, but it's for the whole period, so it's still useful to see the trend. Yea they throw the kitchen sink to make the number seem larger. Also the way the do it basically makes sure you double count some stuff for example renovations and maintenance&repair. There's gonna be double counting there. Also they make stuff up just to add it in there. Imputed rent for all homeowners? Really? First of all that's not even part of GDP. You can't add it to something and take it as a % of GDP. I'm willing to bet that in the transfer costs they include land transfer tax and that's also not part of GDP. In addition, they include housing wealth effect. There's no way to actually calculate that and also it has nothing to do with GDP. These are just a few things that are wrong with that. There are others. The thing is that Statscan actually measures and publishes housing activity in GDP. They do it very rigorously and properly. I think it's around 10% and yes that also on the high side historically speaking. But this guy chose not to use the Statscan numbers but make his own hocus pocus doctored measure to get a larger headline number so it'll me more flashy. That really grates my ass. You're right, it's not a very good chart.

Ah, looks like I was wrong, something else happened, which also sounds like good security: https://9to5mac.com/2017/09/13/face-id-demo-fail-details/

There's a long and illustrious history of demo SNAFUs :D Many companies don't even dare do live demos, they just use promo videos. I think there's a chance that it was because one of the demo phones hadn't been unlocked in a while, reverting to the passcode. It's the same with Touch ID. If you don't use Touch ID for 8 hours (iirc), it'll ask your passcode. It makes sense from a security point of view to periodically ask for the passcode and make sure that if the phone is lost or seized, it will quickly revert to the most secure form of ID (in theory... people using shitty passwords/passcodes is another problem).

Not for nothing but that chart is bullshit. Please elaborate. They throw everything and the kitchen sink, but it's for the whole period, so it's still useful to see the trend.

Look at any past transition and show me one that went smoothly and without outcry? I remember still finding PowerPC binaries years after the x86 transition and having to run them slowly in emulation... Most USB ports out there are still USB-A, so shipping the iPhone with a lightning to USB-c connector would've caused more problems than it solved, even if for the few who have brand new Macbooks it would've been better when they want to plug in their laptops (which isn't even the most common way -- most people plug in the wall at night to charge and that's it). Changing the port on the phone from lightning to USB-C now would've also caused more problems than it solved since there's a huge lightning ecosystem and almost not USB-C ecosystem, and both standards are very similar, so there would be almost not benefit to the painful transition (no space saved, no increased ease of use, etc) except a few less cable to buy for a fraction of the user base. The point of courage is doing things when you think they need to be done to get big benefits even if you'll get backlash. If the benefits aren't big enough, better not change just for the sake of change. I'm also probably getting an X and my wife will get my 7 (she's due for an upgrade).

Liberty to the rescue again! I forgot about that guy (he's brilliant.) Anyone pay up the $100 for a sub to his site? I'm a subscriber. He also has a podcast: http://exponent.fm

This is literally what design is. Tradeoffs. Making choices that have various pros and cons, and weighting them to find the best balance. They've decided that the headphone jack was too much of a waste of space on the very space-constrained phone, especially since there were three other ways to get audio out (lighting, wireless, and speakers), and that they could make much better use of that space than by maintaining a port from the 1950s or whatever. That extra space means better battery life, better haptics, water resistance, etc. They felt that tradeoff was worth it. The tradeoffs are different on a laptop, so saying they didn't remove it at the same time only means that you're designing with different variables. The same thing was true with DVD drives or whatever. Is all that volume and weight best used to read DVDs, or can we use it for something that will bring more benefits to more users? At a certain point when DVD use was rare enough and almost all content could be had online or over a local network, that space was better used for extra battery life and more silent operations and one less mechanical thing to break and such. But you can't always just wait for nobody to use something anymore, because things are very sticky. Sometimes you have to be the catalyst for it to die (like adobe flash on smartphones), and you get the blame for it, but in the end it's worth it. But the nature of tradeoffs is that it's IMPOSSIBLE to please everybody. So if you fall in the group that isn't pleased by the change, it might seem like a bad one, but you might be looking at things too narrowly. Put yourself in Apple's position and see if you would've done things significantly differently. Remember, they have a lot of data about how people use their products and which features are used and which aren't, and about what breaks, etc.

https://stratechery.com/2017/the-lessons-and-questions-of-the-iphone-x-and-the-iphone-8/

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4106337-charter-communications-chtr-ceo-tom-rutledge-goldman-sachs-communacopia-brokers-conference?part=single

If you need earphones that plug into RCA jacks, that's not hard to find and starts pretty cheap. IIRC, Apple pretty much designed the USB-C standard and gave it to the regulatory body. They're not against it. But they keep their ports a long time because there's whole ecosystem built around them and people complain a lot when they changed. Even though lightning was better than the 30-pin ports in basically every way, people still threw a fit and said Apple just wanted to sell more cables or whatever. There's less difference between Lightning and USB-C, so there's no hurry (especially since they think the preferred way to do audio is wireless, and now they have wireless charging), but I'm sure that someday when they change again, it'll be to USB-C. Or maybe to no port at all. It'll come. There's no easy way to make these changes. People complained about removing floppy drives, CD-roms, DVD roms, etc. You can never get every single product lineup and the ecosystems built around them to perfectly be timed, it's always painful, but once you're on the other side of the transition, it's usually much better. Early digital photos were way worse than film... Might want to upgrade the Watch, the new OSes have gotten quite a bit faster and better. Kind of like if you pulled out an original iPhone now running what was then iPhone OS, it'd look pretty rough.

If you use headphones that rarely, then the 7 wouldn't be a problem. I use headphones every day, and I just plug them in the lightning jack (the lightning Earpods that came with the phone). It's totally fine, same experience as pluging in the old jack. I end my days with about 40-50% charge on the regular 7 since the SoC is so damn power efficient, so I just never have to plug in while I listen. You can also get any pair of bluetooth headphones (some for $20-30 have decent reviews on Amazon), no need to get the AirPods if price is an issue and usage is rare. The 7 also comes with a headphone-jack-to-lightning adapter. You can just leave that always plugged into the end of whatever headphones (over the ears I'm guessing) you use on planes (guessing you don't fly ever week) and it'll be fine too. People made way bigger a deal out of this than it was. Soon all smartphones won't have headphone jacks anyway... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Good overview hands on video of the X:

For the Canadians out there: http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/sustainability/tesla-quadruple-size-canadian-supercharger-network-electrify-trans-canada-201050/

I think that's pretty much it. They've mentioned a few times that they would keep in place agreements to keep scale/procurement benefits.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41231766 https://electrek.co/2017/09/11/vw-massive-billion-investment-in-electric-cars-and-batteries/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-11/amazon-s-whole-foods-price-cuts-brought-25-jump-in-customers

CHTR raising new debt and increasing its buyback authorization to $6.4bn: http://ir.charter.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=112298&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2299699

https://electrek.co/2017/09/11/tesla-unveils-new-urban-supercharger-with-slower-charge-rate/

2009 interview transcript: http://www.manualofideas.com/files/content/20090429malone.pdf

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/amazon-studios-jeff-bezos-roy-price-zelda-1202552532/

I thought this was a good read. “Even if the price of lithium soars 300 percent, battery pack costs would rise only by about 2 percent.“ https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-lithium-battery-future/

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/07/amazon-launches-search-for-a-second-headquarters-in-north-america.html