Austin_Conlon

I regularly see complaints on this site about paywalls being used by newspapers. What do you think should be done about it?

“Appreciate mundanity: after all, a pencil is high technology.” -Alan Kay

Why is it so bothersome that technology that helped someone has a brand?

They threw the kitchen sink at the problem but just ended up buying cheese graters!

I can’t imagine Apple and Google would work together to integrate Google Assistant in Apple’s systems in a way that meets Apple’s privacy standards. I think if Siri got direct web answers working reli…

Could you elaborate? “Hey Siri” is opt-in when you set up a Mac.

I only see it considered unacceptable on Hacker News.

The author was on a podcast (Vector) talking about Siri and voice assistants, and he said multiple times explicitly that he would only elaborate on a particular topic to people who hire him as a consu…

Wear OS devices are often quite bulky, I think they'd be fitting for a house arrest bracelet.

Yup: >Apple Watch Series 5 and Apple Watch Series 3 have a water resistance rating of 50 meters under ISO standard 22810:2010. This means that they may be used for shallow-water activities like swi…

All messages including iMessages or just green SMS texts? In general if you're not on a cellular model then it's supposed to show you notifications once you reenter the range of your paired …

Most of the Apple Watch complexity is only disclosed if you go out of your way to find it by pressing the crown and going to the home screen. I do think it's a bit much though that Breathe notifi…

How's the user experience and polish of the OS?

As in a circular face? That would truncate text.

Is Google still committed to Wear OS? They're so far behind.

Oral History of Avie Tevanian starting with the Mach segment: https://youtu.be/vwCdKU9uYnE?t=3995 .