theinternetman

>I think one of the biggest challenges for Twitter is on-boarding new users.

This is worse than ever, they invest most of their effort in getting you to follow their cherry picked celeb users for your country. Then they spend the rest of their effort trying to ban you.

- Don't give us an email > account locked

- Don't give us a phone number > account locked

- Don't change your egg avatar > shadow banned

>These are all awesome uses of Twitter that anyone can benefit from without needing to have any followers.

fyi accounts with low or no follower counts are now auto-blocked using the new safety features by most important people so this is no longer true.

> and they've managed to ethically out compete them with flying colors

Yeah and it only took 5 attempts.

(Poke, Bolt, Slingshot, Flash, Instagram Stories)

It's not just machine learning, 3D rendering is moving over to GPU as well and there is next to no support for anything other than CUDA in that space today.

Not everything starts and ends with gaming in the high end computer space.

Still means you need a PC, mainstream is all tablets, laptops and consoles.

If vr ever goes mainstream beyond a mobile phone gimmick addon it will be via Playstation or Xbox

> relative experience in hardware, which exacerbates their already high labor cost

But everyone in the thread is saying Google didn't really manufacture it and it's just a rebranded HTC device

To be fair the iPhone build quality and hardware design look like a premium product. This looks like a chinese knockoff

Hardware design on this feels entirely uninspired, Chinese knockoff of last years iPhone and Samsung devices.

If they truly started from scratch and ended up here then this hardware initiative is going to fall flat. But I'm gonna guess they didn't start from scratch and this is just a rebadged device as people suspect.

Why on earth would you launch such a cheap plasticky looking device in such a similar form than your competitors device last year when their update was moving that device into more premium materials (iPhone 6 looks positively cheapo next to the 7) and making it seamless.

Surprised they went with a form factor so similar to Samsung and the iPhone 6, just looks pretty dated really.

Think now would have been a good opportunity to go for something less rounded. An iPhone 4 style sharp design would probably end up looking futuristic next to all the faceless rounded blobs the market is full of.

I haven't noticed anything because the only thing it ever managed to do reliably is set timers so that's all I ever used it for.

and one in 20 times you'll get a "here is the timer" where it just shows you yesterdays already complete dinner timer

Finding these heavily curated advertorials Apple has been pushing out (This and the recent wired advertorials come to mind) a bit of a sign that not everything is sunny at One Infinite Loop.

> the Lab VR demos

Wii minigames in VR are still just Wii minigames, whole thing feels like something I'd expect from a hackday from a company as supposedly prolific as valve.

Got a strong feeling the talent is long gone.

> Rockstar North's facility in Edinburgh has roughly the same employee count (slightly more by Wikipedia's count), and all they do is put out one new game every 5 years or so.

Yeah they actually manage to ship games (that manage to make back the entire production budget in pre-orders alone), not just sit on their hands running an online store with an outdated and clunky client.

>I don't care how the message is sent, as long as it is sent.

Friend of mine has an iPad and an iPhone, often her iPhone data plan runs out so I send a message, it's blue and acts like it's delivered.... then I get a reply 6 hours later when she finally gets home and sees it on her iPad because the iPhone never received it because it didn't have a data connection.

Worst part is sometimes I know I need to send it SMS and it's a real pain trying to convinced iMessage to send SMS when it think the person is online with iMessage due to an iPad being left on somewhere. Can never remember which tap and hold dance actually gives me the SMS option.