I had the opportunity to try this last month, it worked really well!
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7ewis commented on Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark' theverge.com/2024/5/9/241... · Posted by u/linguae
There definitely is such a thing as bad publicity, I wish people would stop using that phrase to make dumb things sound smart. Of all the companies out there, Apple definitely doesn’t want to trade on negative sentiment, it clashes with their overall brand strategy. In particular this iPad Pro launch is riskier than normal, given that it has brand new screen tech and is the thinnest device they’ve ever made, and it’s possible they pulled this commercial to avoid creating associations between this iPad and the act of “crushing” things.
Furthermore I doubt that anyone on HN (except like 2 people who will definitely reply to this comment) who didn’t know about the new iPad Pro before this commericial learned about it from this post.
I expect the majority of people really aren't bothered about this though - just a vocal minority, so although maybe a bad ad for some, I expect the benefits of the publicity of this ad far outweight the downsides.
I wouldn't have paid any attention to a new iPad launch or known that it was the thinnest one yet, without this 'bad' press.
If anything, I'd say I'd be more likely to purchase a new iPad as a result
Is SGE any good? Would love to try it, but I'm in the UK. Did try enabling it with a VPN a few months ago without any luck.
7ewis commented on Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts theregister.com/2024/03/1... · Posted by u/Bender
Revanced on Android can patch the Reddit apk to remove those ads.
7ewis commented on Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio cnbc.com/2024/01/08/twili... · Posted by u/ceohockey60
Bloomberg said:
"Twilio Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Lawson is stepping down from leading the software company he co-founded amid slowing sales growth and pressure from activist investors."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-08/twilio-ce...
7ewis commented on X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? nerology.substack.com/p/x... · Posted by u/NeroVanbierv
> X.com is pretty stupid as well, you can't meaningfully use it as a brand.
Just "x" alone isn't really the brand.
It's more like "x.com" is the canonical name.
From that perspective, "x" or "x.com" is about as good as brand recognition can get. It's simple and perfectly descriptive of an "everything app" and payment processing business.
I personally like brand names that _look_ like they could be words, but aren't like Spotify, Twitter, Monzo, Reddit, Google etc.
Believe they need to be short and easy to Google even if you don't know how to spell them (not saying the above brand names are perfect). Find it annoying hearing Xero having to be spelt out on the radio to stop people going to zero.com.
Not particularly a fan of combining two English words together like Facebook, Freetrade, GitHub etc. but the worst is when companies try to own a common word like Apple.
7ewis commented on X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? nerology.substack.com/p/x... · Posted by u/NeroVanbierv
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Has anyone with a Workspace contract had this issue?
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Back up now for most of us
New video format or more demanding music software is released that slows the machine down, or battery life craters.
Well, I haven’t had even a tinge of feeling that I need to upgrade after getting my M1 Pro MBP. I can’t remember it ever skipping a beat running a serious Ableton project, or editing in Resolve.
Can stuff be faster? Technically of course. But this is the first machine that even after several years I’ve not caught myself once wishing that it was faster or had more RAM. Not once.
Perhaps it’s my age, or perhaps it’s just the architecture of these new Mac chips are just so damn good.