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I wonder if this will eat into their Beats market. What is Apple’s long term play with Beats anyway?

These are beautifully designed and no doubt they will pair seamlessly with other Apple devices, but that price tag seems...audacious to put it nicely.

C++ is, quite rightly, considered an overly-complex and bloated language. A lot of newer features are papering over poor design from the beginnings of the language.

But..

There is something about the use of destructors, RAII, and even smart-pointers that just feels so...elegant? I'm not sure what the word is I'm looking for. I feel like there's a kernel of a beautiful language hiding in c++ and those features are the integral parts of that.

Please, for the good of this site and the wishes of his own family, don't post baseless conspiracy theories like that.

Edit - as the original post I was responding to has been removed I have edited out my response to it delving into more information.

Bill is often used as shorthand for William.

Very interesting. I loved both but for some reason I did enjoy the short story better (I'm definitely not always a "The book was better"-type person either), and I think this explains why. I'll have to go and check them both out again and keep this in mind.

I'm always impressed by those who follow their more creative side. Best of luck to you in your endeavors.

If you're undecided on reading Chiang's work, I would suggest checking out the movie Arrival based on one of his short stories.

I found it to be a wonderful adaptation and inspired me to dive into his works. I've found a joy reading his work that I haven't experienced in reading sci-fi since coming across Philip K. Dick when I was much younger.

I’m sure this is a dumb question to anyone with knowledge in this field but is there any reason to not use all three together?

"Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams, who has now also taken over the company’s legendary design studio."

This might be a dumb question, but does the COO usually manage design? Our COO is very much a supply chain, logistics, procurement and day-to-day administration type manager. I can't imagine him having any sort of sense of good design.

I'm sure he's (he as in Apple's COO) not there in the design trenches on the daily, but he would have final say on overall design, unless I'm misinterpreting what it means in the article.

To be fair I probably would've said the same thing for a CEO before Steve Jobs came along but he's proven himself to a be very rare exception.

Now give me the option to opt out of amp results in my search and it'll be perfect.