Meanwhile iTunes’ interface is still shit
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Capitalism is good at making more stuff. Socialism is good at deciding where the stuff should go. You absolutely need both… and you need more capitalism and less socialism to get going, and vice versa once capitalism starts to hit diminishing returns. The reason why socialism had so many failures in the 20th century is they made the switch way early.
In the end we’ll probably land on some system that integrates the best stuff about socialism and capitalism… thus creating a lot of stuff and then distributing that stuff in a sensible manner. Obviously we have a lot of work to do to get there.
Oh and also meanwhile, Apple continues with the “fuck you’s” to its loyal customer base by making aftermarket chargers not work as well with iOS 13.x
ChargerLab has revealed that Apple is quietly slashing the performance of third-party wireless chargers for iPhones running iOS 13. Moreover, there’s currently no guidance for manufacturers to avoid this so owners who have paid for expensive fast wireless chargers may find their money has been wasted.
What ChargerLab found specifically was that with the launch of iOS 13.1 many third-party wireless chargers rated at Apple’s 7.5W maximum wireless charging speeds were now operating at 5W. As you might expect, this lengthened wireless charging times substantially. For example, an iPhone 11 running iOS 13 would wirelessly charge to 80% in two hours but after installing iOS 13.1 it only achieved a charge of 55% in the same time period. That’s woefully slow.
The downgrade still exists in iOS 13.1.2 and, despite no official explanation from Apple, AppleInsider learned from a source within the company that the change is deliberate. “Any vendors who are fully compliant with the Qi charging spec and all of our guidance will see 7.5W charging,” said their source.
What you’re missing is that I’m not trying to say socialism is charity. Socialism has been the biggest part of the engine that has driven the improvements in the quality of life. Most of this is due, not to horse trading or widget manufacturing, but to improvements in the underlying conditions of the society and economy and that’s been infrastructure, education, and investment in research and basic science. Most of that has been done socialistically, not capitalistically.
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And this is the opposite if anything. Socialism is terrible at deciding where stuff should go. Speaking of “Socialist” countries instead of just socialism generally, the problem with centrally planned economies isn’t that they can’t make great stuff. The USSR put someone in space first and that’s just the top example, they did tons of impressive stuff considering where they came from. What an open market does is tell producers what to make and where to put it. It communicates demand. And it’s very very difficult for central planners to really know what millions of people want and need and how much of it.
Making stuff nobody wants or consumes isn’t making stuff its wasting stuff. I think we mostly agree but are talking past each other. I should have said that socialism is good at deciding who should get stuff (mostly everyone).
Yang has an idea about this.
The big driver of poverty reduction recently has been socialist governments loosening up the oppression that has kept poor people from being allowed to lift themselves up out of poverty.
That’s ~exactly what you’d expect. Where can I get a job making this kind of “finding”?
Tbf, they probably measured the charging time and/or power output directly to get the 5 W number, not the other way around.
There’s definitely a point in capitalism’s development where it has captured all regulators and starts to rig the market against labor. We’ve been seeing a lot of that in recent years.
There’s a common misconception with free market extremists that markets trend toward perfect competition over time… in reality they do nothing of the sort. They trend toward monopoly because that’s the optimal condition for capitalists to make a profit. Modern monopolies (because of how antitrust laws are interpreted) tend to use their power to drive down costs from suppliers and labor rather than raise prices. This in turn suppresses wages for working people and interestingly seems to block inflation almost completely.
Yeah he does. I’m a Yang supporter largely because I think he’s dead on right about ~90% of his policy ideas. There’s a very good chance that if we actually implemented his entire agenda (will never happen ldo) the country would almost instantly become a radically better place.
Either that or the massive socialist investments that China has made in infrastructure and investment and protection of industry.
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If China really had open and free markets, all they ever would have been would have been a market for Western manufactured goods and used for resource extraction and plantations.
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Id like to see him tell that to a guy i worked with who lost half his lungs at a foundry well hiding the chemicals from OSHA so the owners could have their third house.
I guess I am missing your point. Why would you “expect” a charger to not charge your phone as fast once you upgrade the OS?
There are a slew of stories about this.
In its letter, Apple explained that a year ago, it delivered a software update aimed at improving power management during peak workloads “to avoid unexpected shutdowns on iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and iPhone SE. … While these changes may go unnoticed, in some cases users may experience longer launch times for apps and other reductions in performance.”
Yeah I got a new battery for my kid’s 6s when they did this, but this is a different issue. In the case you cite, older equipment is having trouble keeping up with newer software. In the one I cited, we’re talking about the exact same phone causing other hardware not to work as well. And if that story is to be believed, they’re doing it deliberately.
Devil was saying that of course it’s going to take longer to charge when you only get 5 watts instead of the 7.5 watt max.