Portatort

joined 11 months ago
[–] Portatort@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

What is it about being an audio engineer that means you require it as a 3.5mm headphone jack rather than an adapter for lightning/usb-c or set of headphones with the right port natively?

[–] Portatort@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I sure do love this sub’s unwavering commitment to: ‘I have imagined it, therefore it is possible’

[–] Portatort@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Unlikely as a lot of people would just opt for that and not the full watch

[–] Portatort@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Just swipe between two open apps?

[–] Portatort@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Over on larger devices where it belongs

[–] Portatort@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah. Steve famously loved making thick and bulky tech products

[–] Portatort@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

The delusion here is strong. Apparently the only thing holding us back from having credit card thin, flat iPhones with no notch and DSLR quality cameras is one belligerent tech executive.

And for all the money Apple now has this just isn’t something they’re interested in making

Looking at the iPhone and saying… sure would be better without the notch or camera bump.

Any idiot can do that. That wasn’t what made Steve Jobs an memorable tech figure

[–] Portatort@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I literally had a phone that did video calls before the first iphone was announced iPhone.

Stop bringing up irrelevant examples of innovation.

It might be possible without the kinds of compromises we see now, one day, but not at the moment.

No one even has a million dollar proof of concept example.

[–] Portatort@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah. Whatever Apple and Steve want to achieve they just can. Don’t worry about physics and the fact that no one has even presented a demo for perfectly transparent high resolution display.

No one has done it well yet because it literally isn’t possible. You have to significantly compromise the display quality and the camera quality. It’s just not worth it.

[–] Portatort@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

No ports and Steve probably would have picked some ideological fight over something stupid and we would still have LCD displays or something.

[–] Portatort@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Agree on the first point.

Or at least it would have taken longer for the sizing splits to happen.

But dude, Steve loved Johnny. Steve probably would have indulged Johnnys worst tendencies for ages. Thinner and thinner phones. Removing more buttons and ports.

[–] Portatort@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck are you on about?

iPhones under Steve and all the iPods ever were made in China

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