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blastdoor said:

The Tech Crunch quotes seem oddball to me. 

I guess if you landed on Earth in a pod yesterday you might not have a monitor, keyboard, and mouse handy. But I'll bet a very large share of adults over the age of, say, 30 have a monitor, keyboard, and mouse already. That's not a small market.

I will do something entirely different though. I will connect the Mini with my iPad.

Sidecar over wifi is already quite decent, but with a usb-c cable you get yourself a a really nice monitor + keyboard + touch input. And there are plenty of iPad users out there that would love this setup.

And dont forget watchOS. It’s entire UX seems totally untested.

How can anybody at Apple give clearance to release a system that takes five (5!) touch steps (swipes and taps counted) just to stop the recording of an ongoing sport activity? One single step should of course be enough. And then one optional step to restart it again.

Also, the entire touch interface has suddenly become much less responsive with watchOS 10. Why? It was working just fine before. Now, people keep pressing and pressing on that little screen just to get it to react at all.

And what’s happened with the notification mechanism??? Sometimes there are nonsense notification signals, with absolutely zero notifications in the list. And sometimes it’s just the opposite. I even sometimes receive different notifications with mutually conflicting info …and I’m only using Apple’s own apps.

Apple beyond PCs in gaming??? Yeah, right

Got mine in the first batch in December 2020. Already in January filed a customer complaint about this condensation issue, with pictures and everything.

The areas behind the magnetic ear pads were soaking wet on both left and right sides. How did I find out? They started to stink. They stank of old foul water more than a meter away. I used to be a DJ for many years, and I’ve never had headphones stinking before. And you wouldn’t like to know where those headphones had been. The only difference these days is that I now have a shaved head, as opposed to before when I had long hair.

After much complaining to Apple about this, the headphones suddenly started to behave erratically. Pairing wouldn’t work and I had to factory reset the phones several times each day. After that, Apple agreed to take them in. What did they do? They returned the same headphones together with a pair of new magnetic pads. That’s it (!!!)

Do I still use the headphones? Not a chance 🙊

darkvader said:

rob53 said:

If this acquisition is allowed it makes no sense why Apple’s App Store is being forced to open up. Apple has every right to run its products the way it wants to. Nvidia owning ARM affects multiple computing companies not just its own. 

Nvidia owning ARM is a terrible idea, and should be stopped.

And that has NOTHING AT ALL to do with Apple and their app store.  Apple has NO right to run MY iPhone the way it wants.  It's MY iPhone, not Apple's iPhone.  And because it's MY iPhone and not Apple's iPhone, Apple should not be allowed to have any say whatsoever about what software I choose to run on MY iPhone.  If you want to only get software through Apple's app store on YOUR iPhone, that's your right.  But neither you nor Apple should have the ability to stop me from getting software from any source of my choosing.

And the same thing goes for in-app purchases.  MY iPhone, not Apple's iPhone.  It's only Apple's until they sell it.  Then it's MINE, not Apple's any more.  It's well past time for Apple's app store monopoly to be busted.

@darkvader ;
What are you complaining about? There is no one disagreeing with you. It’s YOUR phone, so do what the heck YOU want with it. Throw it into a wall if YOU want. WE don’t care, and Apple doesn’t care.

But don’t for a second think you can do whatever you want with Apple’s iOS. Because you for sure never bought that. If Apple says you are allowed to modify parts of it, by for ex installing certain apps inside of it, then that’s because they allow you to. The same thing goes for any other software from any other developer on YOUR smart phone or YOUR computer. When was the last time you complained about the rules Facebook set up regarding Facebook-installable apps? Or plugins for MS Office? Or skins in Fortnite?

iOS comes preinstalled on YOUR iPhone, but if you don’t like the way it works, and the way Apple lets you use it, then you are free to install any other OS of your choice on YOUR iPhone. Heck, YOU could even make one YOURself. Just don’t expect anybody to assist you in that. It’s YOUR choice, YOUR device freedom, and YOUR consequences.

Can you stop whining about nothing now, and get back on topic? You know, nVidia vs ARM etc.

macxpress said:

The whole foldable thing just seems like a useless gimmick to me. 

All technology seems like useless gimmicks until someone succeeds in making an innovation on it.

“wait-and-see approach”, my @$$. Actively blocking their apps is just being plain sour p*

Forget about the politics and all the other craziness. Just look at Tim’s face. It’s hilarious …especially next to Trump’s. How does he even do that? I am soo lmao every time I look at it. This picture is Pulitzer material.

On the topic of AI…
Prompt: Remove all verbiage from this article.

ChatGPT:
Rumors claim Apple's iOS 18 AI features prioritize privacy with on-device processing, except for some advanced functions, including a new large language model called "Ajax." It will enhance Messages, Safari, Spotlight, and Siri with text analysis and response generation. More details will be revealed at WWDC starting June 10.

AppleInsider said:

… nanocrystals made from semiconductor material called quantum dots …

A quantum dot is actually not a semiconductor material but a nanocrystal (ie a specially shaped particle) typically made of materials such as CdSe or InP.