People are incredibly adaptable when motivated. Whatever issues Snapchat’s UX may have had weren’t a problem when everyone was eager to jump on the bandwagon. Now that people have adjusted to all the quirks, it’s much harder to get them to accept change.

There are some places where it requires virtually no effort to take a beautiful photo. Iceland is one of those places. I’m more impressed when someone is able to snap a striking photo of somewhere mundane like American suburbia.

With the exception of the Zune, Microsoft isn’t always late to the game. Their big failing is that they hit the market with unpolished products and didn’t commit to improvements like they should have.

This doesn’t work in the US because cars are still allowed to have brake lights that double as turn signals; it would just look like someone tapped their brakes.

The important bit here is: if you’re parenting properly your kid isn’t going to have a meltdown in public because you’ve already established a precedent.

I see what you’re saying, but no one perceives the C300 as being “cheap”. Mercedes as a brand still carries prestige. The same cannot be said about Dodge.

Yeah, the difference is considerable when you see the S8 and iPhone X side-by-side in stores. The iPhone X is distinctive in that the bezel is recognizable from afar, but the S8 is much more striking and feels like a more advanced bit of tech.

This is one of those situations where you have to question what the people institutional knowledge were doing. Does Apple still employee those kinds of people? Maybe that’s another roles that has been outsourced to the manufacturer. But this is one of those things that shouldn’t have even required testing; someone…

The cardboard on the seat is a nice touch...

There are tons of reasons why our infrastructure is crap compared to Japan. A huge one is how much more expensive it is to build and maintain anything in the United States, compared to both Japan and Germany. This doesn’t even take into account mismanage and inadequate scope. Then you’ve got the NIMBYs; every country…

I’ve always found the i3 appealing, but it being a BMW reliability is always a concern. What’s reliability been like for you?

Marxist (and correct) worldview that there is a link between economic inequality, racial injustice, and the oppression of capitalism, corporations and our nation’s war-making policies.

As awesome as group B was, modern rally cars are orders of magnitude faster. What made group B so exciting was the noise, lack of control and crowds of spectators. But watch group B and modern WRC videos back to back and the difference in performance is stark.

“Let’s bombard a venue with a mountain of branded garbage which everyone will ignore and pretend that a 2% response rate is a success.”

Whoever did the motion tracking for that text, did a fantastic job.

I have to say, FaceID works far, far better than I would have ever expected. It consistently unlocks in the amount of time it takes to swipe up and is at least as quick as my iPhone 7. Pulling it out of my pocket, it often unlocks as I’m lifting the phone to my face.

That whole subplot was pure shit.

That crappy photo of a corner of the screen is misleading. The developer of that software, I can’t remember their name, released a presentation which depicts the process of creating and sending alerts. While they acknowledged the need for improvements, they seemed intent on blaming user error. Unfortunately, all they…

Livery companies are going to be both this car’s downfall and life support. The very first Continental I saw was parked outside my office building and belong to one of these services. The car itself is striking and conveys a better sense of luxury than the old Continental or Town Car ever did. Unfortunately, I…

I thought that Rey’s training was one of the stronger aspects of the movie. Although, it does fall flat because she grows so quickly that she’s challenging people who’ve been at it for years.