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MacBook Air update arrives with lower starting price & M4 performance boost
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? -
iPhone Air was almost portless, but concerns about EU regulations prevented it
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.
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. -
Apple now lets you transfer purchases from one Apple Account to another
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Uncovered iOS 26 beta image hints at sleep score for Apple Watch
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. -
Apple is planning to make enormous design changes to iOS 19 & macOS 16
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?
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iPhone 17 video hints at how fall updates will feel in the hand
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. -
Apple Miami Worldcenter is a nature and accessibility paradise
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.
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.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.
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. -
Apple's Eddy Cue is guessing that the iPhone will eventually be replaced by AI
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'). -
Car makers reject CarPlay Ultra as an Apple overreach
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Apple Maps still calls it the Gulf of Mexico, and politicians are upset
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.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.
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.