SmittyW

libertyandfree said:

 Once again Apple teases with a low price for a crippled SSD of 256GB.  Apple is such a fraud when it comes to their environmentally preaching since they install small SSD that makes their device obsolete too soon and thus enters the landfill.  How is that good for the environment?  

I'm only using 140GB on my work computer, and the vast majority of that is from large, inefficient apps that will be replaced soon.

macgui said:

I'd like to see Apple make a phone that they can't won't sell to the EU. An FU EU phone. But apparently the EU market is too big for Apple to ignore. Maybe they also fear more scrutiny as blowback.

Agreed. As much as I want Apple to push things, the timing is terrible for that; politics between the US and EU are only going to get more contentious over the next year or two, and Apple is likely to get caught up in it.

I'm surprised at all the naysayers here, Apple has always pushed us into the future, and charging ports aren't going to be in it. I was hoping for a portless, perhaps even buttonless phone this year if they could pull off force/capacitive button and haptics. The 'air' moniker is particularly relevant vis-a-vis pushing the envelope. Hopefully we'll get that version in 2026, although now that's probably not going to happen because the focus will be on foldables, so 2027 it is I suppose. 

Hallelujah!!! About gd time. I remember when Tim hinted at this happening 'soon' in a customer email over 10 years ago, or something like that.

It actually worked. I can finally get rid of my gmail account!

I hope this means that an Apple Ring with sleep tracking is coming this Fall. It would definitely make things easier to be able to keep that on and have the phone and watch on the charger every night. I don't always remember to keep my watch charged, so sleep tracking is not worth the hassle at the moment. 

jeffharris said:

Can Apple PLEASE make UI elements fully SCALABLE for high resolution monitors! 

PLEASE!

I recently upgraded to a 27” 4K monitor and it’s a nightmare. 

Dialogue Boxes are postage stamp sized.
Menu Bar Items and text are all tiny.
Text on various application palettes are barely readable.

I’ve had to increase text and icon size in the Finder, but the Menu Bar and menus are tiny!
Finder prefs only work for ONE window. Size changes need to be applied to EVERY window I open.

If I go MacBook Pro without the external monitor, Finder elements are too big.

Apple has been promising scalable UI forever. Will they ever deliver?

Apple needs to do this for the iPad mini. It's insane that the default text is smaller than the text on my old iPhone mini.

I'm super excited about the iPhone 'air,' but I want to be able to take spatial videos and pics. Apple should really come out with a GoPro like device with dual cameras. In addition to promoting the Apple Vision Pro, it'd be great to see what Apple can do with bigger sensors, not to mention 3rd party lenses. 

Wesley Hilliard said:

SmittyW said:

tht said:

Looks like any other Apple Store?

What I would like to see are sound dampening materials, inside the store. Place is loud!

Obviously, I'm big on being carbon neutral, if not negative. So, roof has to be either a solar PV panel set, painted white or passive radiative cooling panels. There should be battery storage. Windows are thermally efficient or solar PV. Parking lot, if an open field, not a garage, should be covered by PV panels.

I'm guessing Apple considers the 'liveliness' of the noise a good juxtaposition to the minimalist style. Although, perhaps the noise is why they include trees in some of their stores.

Personally, I was disappointed about the carbon neutral part. Geologically speaking, we're at record-low CO2 levels. The plants/algae, and thus every other form of life on this planet, need more CO2. %0.04 of the atmosphere is anemic.

Regardless, I can't wait to visit this store, maybe even for the opening, it looks amazing. 

CO2 was thousands of PPM in pre-human history more than 32 million years ago, so yeah, from that perspective we're at a "record-low." However, the sun was 32 million years younger! It put off less heat than today. And atmospheric conditions and needs for life that existed then were very different too!

Science is cool. If you learn more than one snippet of out-of-context data, you can learn why climate change is an incredible issue and why suggesting we need more CO2 is not only incredibly ignorant but dangerous thing to say.

I won't delete your comment, but you went well out of your way to share such incredible misinformation about climate in a story about an Apple Store. I will assume our forum members are knowledgeable enough to ignore this, so I'll leave it.

Don't be weird. Stay on topic. Thanks.

Are you a mod? That was on topic, by the way (if I'm missing something here, please also inform Tht).

Also, what makes you the arbiter of climate knowledge? What fundamentals of life have changed since then? I'm pretty sure that photosynthesis, the carbon cycle, etc. haven't changed. CO2 has a negligible, if any, impact on temp; we've experienced ice ages with 10x the amount of CO2 we have now, which is undisputed. Furthermore, the volstok ice cores clearly show that the increase in temp comes *before* the increases in CO2 (by 400-800 years), as one would naturally expect via outgassing of CO2 from the oceans.

The actual cause of global temp fluctuations has already been discovered (hint: it's not CO2; hint #2: it involves the earth's only source of external heat energy).

Lastly, feel free to call me weird, or some other name. But, I'd ask that you don't use ad hominems as rhetorical framing to dismiss my points. 

Seems a bit rich for cue to talk about AI replacing the iphone, presumably with AI + AR/VR, when he's horribly bumbled Apple's AI rollout along with just about every other Apple service. Has he been purposely trying to sabotage Apple this whole time? Somebody get Hercule Poirot on the case please. Siri is a daily disappointment and frustration that routinely fumbles rote commands and can't even pronounce words like "Hollywood" right (it inexplicably drops the 'y'). 

I like the idea of car play, wish I had it in my car, but I don't understand why Apple bothers with it. I assume it's pretty niche and low revenue. Is there a long-term play they need to keep the foot in the door for?

Wesley Hilliard said:

SmittyW said:

Wesley Hilliard said:

canukstorm said:

DAalseth said:

I wonder if Trump knows it won’t change. He made all sorts of really stupid promises to his supporters. These Executive Orders let him say he followed through, but like his promise in 2016 to ‘bring back coal’ none of them stand a chance in hell of happening. He knows that but he’s just going through the motions. It’s also good misdirection so people talk about this, while he and his crew are doing real damage behind the scenes. 

As a non-US citizen, how do Executive Orders work?  Are they not binding?  For example, the issue of birthright citizenship is a hot button topic which from my understanding is protected by the 14th Amendment.  Can an executive order just overturn that even though it's in the Constitution?

Nope. Many of Trump's executive orders were actually illegal. An executive order is kind of like a promissory note that conveys the intentions of the administration. They are binding for federal employees and offices, but can't go beyond that and can't violate the constitution. The orders can later be considered by Congress and the Supreme Court if they need further legislation to make them more official, or if they need to be blocked.

For example, his orders about birthright citizenship aren't allowed, period. He can't actually provide amnesty to ByteDance from a law that was passed. And he can't withdraw from the WHO like that. He's being sued already and there are a lot of people on both sides of the isle that are unhappy with the many of the executive orders and what they do. Congress will likely overturn several. We'll see.

You need to do some more research and look into what 'US jurisdiction' means. Might want to look up supreme court precedent while you're at it. You are welcome.

Also, that's a shame about the WHO, looks like Tedros is going to have to go back to embezzling funds from the Ethiopian government again. Poor guy.

I'll repeat what I said in a previous thread: wtf are you talking about?

Low effort, poor tact comment. Not unexpected, though.