Apple's Business Beyond the iPhone
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To put that in perspective, Amazon's entire AWS cloud business, which is enterprise focused, is at around $7 billion a quarter.
As voice dictation gets better, answering email and messages on the watch lets me often just leave my phone at home.
I can imagine a future when many people only have a watch as their personal device but use other larger devices that are shared, instantly personalized by a watch.
Of course, my watch is good for mostly telling the time. My phone is good for browsing the web and playing games. And my desktop is good for software development.
So IMHO, I don't think this is the future Apple wants to embrace yet even though it appears to be the next logical step in computing for a lot of us.
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Privilege escalation attacks that require access to the console are usually discounted as unlikely.
Certainly, there have been a fair amount, but not for lack of effort on the OS developers' parts.
It can always be better, and cutting edge, modern OS designs are superior, but it's not like the foundations of NT/Darwin are completely rotten.
Apple seems to fundamentally believe that Macs are single user systems, and it's shown in their past few major releases.
Maybe Apple won't be the vendor for this.
This is a good idea succinctly put. Thank you. The building blocks are already there (e.g. Apple watch based unlocking for the Mac), and can be extended to spaces like the automobile (CarPlay, extending your definition of a "device" to cars).
Why is this important to you? Aside from going for a run I can't think of any situation where it bothers me to take my phone with.
Fair enough.
>I hate the distraction. I hate the lifestyle.
How does the watch change either of these? My phone is always on mute and I practice a pull behaviour pattern with it (I choose when to look, answer texts, calls etc) rather than a push (distracting) pattern.
With the watch, It is comfortable to check a notification and quickly respond to it but not much else.
the iphone is a huge stepping stone to that future, and it will still be relevant for a while (if no longer novel and sexy). carplay, home, airpods, watch, even icloud--all that stuff now wraps around the iphone to create pieces of a future personal computing cocoon. over time, the integrations between them will be more and more seamless until the iphone disappears, absorbed into those other devices.
apple's current services growth is part of this strategy, not the strategy itself. it has to build out that part of the business (particularly video content/entertainment) to set itself up to be competitive in that future market that the other faang companies are also vying for.
(as an aside, the movie her seems to be a neat extrapolation of apple into the future, minus the clunky ending)
EVENTUALLY Google will stop dropping the ball, and then it will be too late.
Even then, iOS will switch back to the standard keyboard when you type into a password field.
Between the binary blob drivers that the OEMs don’t even have access to and Google Play Services, Android is equally hard to audit.
Personally, I use Apple's Messages, but that's because it's installed by default and integrated with SMS. It's basically just enhanced MMS, so a really really easy transition.
No. Google does not integrate their messaging solution with SMS. The real reason behind that is that Google doesn't want to piss off the carriers who still see messaging (iMessage excluded) as a source of revenue.
What do you think makes Google different? Is it because they partner more closely on handsets?
The primary advantage Facebook has, I believe, other than that everyone is already using it, is that you can find someone on it later without having to ask them for contact details.
Nobody would pay for a messaging service. Even if you would, it wouldn't matter, your non-tech-industry friends wouldn't.
I also want to send iCal invites via Message.
PS- Oops. I forgot about my personal email. I'm still using gmail for my throwaway and official email addresses (eg specialist@specialist.com). Ya, I'll want to migrate that to Apple too, some day.
However, the ESC key is also on the touchbar, which makes using vim pretty annoying.
I mostly use the function keys in RStudio for R programming and for everything else I use Energy Bar for quick app launches and volume controls.