Thank you, from my cursory look of their comparison page, this is the information that was missing. But maybe that was a deliberate choice on Apple's part.
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This is a nice thought but I think it's wrong. If TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts have proven anything, it's that people don't want to decide they want to consume. It's cynical but it's what the data has shown time and again works for these platforms. Passive consumption is easier for the user and companies know it keeps us online longer.
When you ask people, they will say they want to see who they follow but their behaviour, incentivised by companies, says otherwise.
What really frustrates me is E&C has a lot of space. I'm not a city planner but you'd think having the room to fully seperate each form of transport would make it easy to improve.
Given this and the difficulty in spotting dormant black holes, it will be interesting to see if these black holes are suprisingly common. Similar to the way gravitational microlensing led astronomers to find far more low-mass planets than they expected.
CFC elimination is a great example but even a hugely complex issue, and one we aren't doing well on, like climate change has had progress according to the latest IPCC report because of global collaboration.
It's perfect for getting attention from a wide audience and is a great demo of their product.
The bit where he breaks down how these ghost writers actually need to write 1000 an hour to make a living shows how absurd and broken it all is.
I need actual holiday where I don't answer emails or even do what I used to consider the minimum required. From an outside perspective, that's always been obvious to me and I've always understood that people need it, I just never applied it to myself.
Inadvertently holiday time is often when my best ideas come.
Priti Patel has no problem making it as hard as possible for refugees to settle in the UK, supports the death penalty and is responsible for the absurd plan to fly immigrants to Rwanda for processing. Something tells me she wont hesitate to extradite Assange.
Particularly the security fixes. Easy to find case numbers, impact levels and clear descriptions. All with decent spacing that makes the page feel clear and legible.
This sounds like a great example of them focusing on one thing and doing it well. It must have been a tightrope walk not to give too much information away about their IP and get crushed by competitors.
3 months is a damning amount of time for the officials.
It is an another interesting example of social engineering and the ability for people to believe anyone with a badge.
As you've said this I hardly think anything I'm going to show you will change your mind. However you have asked for some evidence so here is some.
> Sea levels
From about 3,000 years ago to about 100 years ago, sea levels naturally rose and declined slightly, with little change in the overall trend. Over the past 100 years, global temperatures have risen about 1 degree C (1.8 degrees F), with sea level response to that warming totaling about 160 to 210 mm (with about half of that amount occurring since 1993)
Source: https://sealevel.nasa.gov/faq/13/how-long-have-sea-levels-be....
> Bird population
In 2018, the all-species index in the UK, based on the aggregated population trends of 130 breeding species, was 11% below its 1970 value.
Source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
>Is carbon dioxide bad?
From the IPCC 2014: Human influence on the climate system is clear, and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in history. Recent climate changes have had widespread impacts on human and natural systems.
Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, and sea level has risen.
Source: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/05/SYR_AR5_FINA...
If you really want to learn I cannot recommend the IPCC's reports enough, whether you 'trust experts' or not, they lay out the problems we face as a species. The scientific consensus is that the Earth's climate has warmed significantly since the late 1800s, caused in large part by human activity.
The article doesn't say there has been a jump in species. Is the discovery of new viruses in wild birds not a regular occurrence?
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To address your points:
> Apple have taken their absolute dominance in selling music and moved to middle of the pack in music streaming squeezed between Spotify and Youtube.
This is your point I agree with most, Apple music just isn't as good and its shocking they lost so much ground.
> Apple's Siri is distinctly second tier, losing them both for Apple Music, but also potential shopping via smart assistant.
Siri just isn't good but honestly how many people use voice assistants for more than changing songs or checking the weather?
> Cloud comes across as Apple nickle and dime-ing their customers, insisting you need to back up your phone but providing laughable amounts of storage for free - and then becoming nagware
Agreed it is laughable but I would argue people concerned with backing up all their devices are in the minority of Apple customers. It wouldn't be why most people pay $15 a month.
> Finally you've got the Appstore. Apple is getting absolutely hammered on their 30% fee. At this point it looks almost certain that they'll either change their fee structure or face regulatory action.
I don't really see how this is relevant to the mediocre services Apple offers except it is an unfair advantage they have on other SaaS competitors. I suspect it may be one of the reasons they haven't already decided to swallow SaaS competitors like Spotify, so they can say the app store is competitive and not disturb the golden goose that is the 30% fee.
> If Apple is a services company why isn't FaceTime adding $100Bn of market cap to Apple's value as a competitor to Zoom?
I don't think market caps, especially with the past years stock market, tell us much about the effectiveness of services. However, Apple's current market cap is 2 trillion, 20 times the cap of Zoom. To add to this, Zooms P/E ratio is 530 compared to Apples P/E of 36 which indicates Zoom is wildly overvalued. Even if it was a useful comparison Apple is in a different league.
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I think Apple's biggest problem is the lack of one killer service to offer as part of their bundle. If they offered mediocre Apple music, Apple fitness and Apple arcade but Apple TV was on par with Netflix most people would use the mediocre services to save on the gaining number of other SaaS products modern consumers pay for.
Apple has the money and talent to create one killer service, they just haven't been running a lot of their services long enough to be killers - (with the exception of music). I think it's just a matter of time until Apple create a killer service and people getting sick of paying for multiple SaaS products.
It's a shame because I wanted to get into VR at the beginning of lockdown and everything I've read about Oculus seemed positive except the facebook account.