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  • Apple's relationship with web apps will improve in 2023

    mrochestermrochester
    tht said:
    Right now, in June 2022, it looks like the release of Web Push in 2023 will be good for users and developers.
    Hopefully Apple will have a flag to turn off Push notifications from web apps and web sites.  :/ 

    I've taken quite the dim view of these "pro competition, pro business, pro consumer" rationales. GDPR pop-up notices are like a modern rendition of ActiveX pop-ups, and it didn't do anything to actually protect people. This Web Push stuff sounds like it is going to amp up notification marketing by increasing the surface area of who and what can send a push notification by orders of magnitude. Eventually a few "bad" players will blow up all the goodness and just trash everything. Like, all it takes is one "web app" to mess up your phone or PC and you will have to go through some cleaning activity.

    Every single communications medium we have eventually just turns to shit. My mail box is 99% advertisements, and probably 99.999% by weight. Just the thought of the gas and diesel used to deliver that shit pisses me off. My landline phone is nothing but telemarketing and basically shit calls. My cell phone is getting there and I really should just turn on the flag to only allow my contacts to ring the phone. Email? Our email apps have the work of multiple PhDs to filter that stuff out, on multiple nodes of an email's path to your input. Text messaging? I think text messaging costing money way back when actually delayed the inevitable, especially now that regulators want "compatibility".
    It’s almost like us humans should focus our efforts on our immediate neighbours and communities instead of trying to ‘connect to like-minded people’ on the other side of the world. Make meaningful, real relationships with a handful of people and everything else just fades away to insignificance. 
    williamlondondewmewatto_cobra

  • iPad mini review roundup: Superior speed but missing a critical feature

    mrochestermrochester
    I would have had this in a heart beat if only it had Face ID. Maybe next refresh now it has the Face ID design. 
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Compared: Razer Blade Pro 17 versus Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro

    mrochestermrochester
    The only way to get the 4K 17" Razer is to configure it with a GTX 2080 Max-Q at which point the machine costs a whopping £3599 (4568USD). 

    At least Apple lets you have the best screen even in the most basic specification!
    watto_cobraforegoneconclusiondewmeDetnator

  • Compared: Razer Blade Stealth 13 versus Apple's 13-inch MacBook Pro

    mrochestermrochester
    I’ve always loved the look of the Razer Blade series but there’s absolutely no way I’d buy a laptop with a 16:9 display. 
    kpomwatto_cobradewme

  • Apple agrees to $50M settlement in MacBook butterfly keyboard lawsuit

    mrochestermrochester
    I still miss the keyboard on my 2017 MBP.  The one on the 2019 16" is nowhere near as good, which really surprised me given how much people raved about the 2019 keyboard and railed against the 2017.
    tyler82Alex1N

  • The new MacBook Pro: Why did Apple backtrack on everything?

    mrochestermrochester
    The silly thing with these new laptops is we’ve gone from 4 universal ports that will do anything to 3 universal ports and 2 ports that can only do one thing, so technically a less flexible machine now. 

    Also, where’s the outcry about Apple using a proprietary charging port? 
    9secondkox2

  • F.lux says it is 'original innovator' of nighttime display color tech, asks Apple to open Night Shi

    mrochestermrochester
    dasanman69 said:
    latifbp said:
    Apple has an App Store rule that apps that replicate core OS operations get denied a place in the App Store.
    How many apps have gotten replicated, and suddenly became a built-in feature of the OS? Those developer's apps that were once allowed in the App Store were removed and their income from it summarily cut off. 
    That's why they need to continually innovate and come up with new revenue streams.  If you sit still and try and cash in on past successes, someone else will come and eat your breakfast, lunch and dinner.