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I mean I haven't held it but how is a Sapper-esque stoic black rectangle bad or ugly?

Only thing unappealing about it to me is the logo

> It doesn't clean the floor, so there's no practical function. It's not an MP3 player that follows you around or a Siri-like assistant

What an utterly joyless way to look at the world.

Real dogs make plenty of noises and smells too to be fair.

Doesn't this predate Shazam? Isn't it more a case that Shazam is WhatTheFont for music?

Who really loses out in this scenario though?

It sure as hell isn't going to be Nvidia who hold all the cards as far as CUDA based computing goes.

People who want to use this tech will go where the tech is, people even switch away from Mac to Windows to access this tech.

> It was designed for normal people to be able to get in touch with famous people or vice versa

Not so sure about this. Wasn't it just designed to broadcast messages among people who knew each other. The celeb focus came later.

I'd also say it doesn't help that your onboarding focuses greatly on what celebs you're going to engage with on the service.

I feel TF2 has a place in peoples hearts so it keeps getting wheeled out in this debate way more times than it's deserved these days (especially considering Valve compromised both the art direction and coherence in recent years).

All 3 examples here are excellent but I want to say I know a lot of people hate on Destiny but the art direction, environmental art, creature design is all magical in terms of tech and results. Honestly feels like concept art brought to life and anyone dismissing it and not even giving it a chance just are missing out on some seriously impressive visuals resting perfectly between realistic and stylistic.

Try it in a few more apps it's the choice of the app dev so basically random.

Not that a user should have to know "only enter your password into the black keyboard", which can also be faked mind.

Technology Will Save Us ship a similar product that is more gender neutral if anyone is interested.

Actually think in this space the norm is actively going gender neutral.

I did similar with a good 6 years between and with two different emails on different domains and it's friends suggestions both in it's own app and Instagram (not linked to FB account but sharing an email) manage to reference people I only ever knew during the time of the first account and never even interacted with on Facebook.

e.g a guy I interned for 10 years ago who I never spoke to/added on FB keeps showing up in my Insta suggestions. It's actually a bit unnerving and makes me worry who my account is suggested to.

Sad that I hear something complained about on certain Apple podcasts and that little qualm of that host is fixed magically a release or two later while real users are ignored.

Quicktime 7 is one of the first things I install on a new mac because it still opens a bunch of files and does things that Quicktime X cannot.

Quicktime X can't even open a plain .mov file without "Converting" it.

Too many product managers these days who don't actually understand or engage with the product and instead think they can create from reading metrics tea leaves alone.

Not sure why the article needed that smug condescending tone, not everyone is a tech blogger who upgrades their phone every year, plenty of people are still using sub iPhone 7 devices which as the article states DID include a radio hardware just not connected, yet the article seems to focus on how absurd it is that someone could be using an old device.