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  • A lament for the Touch Bar

    markbritonmarkbriton
    I’ll miss the Touch Bar. I totally understand why it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I wish it could remain as an optional extra for the small number of people who love it like me. 

    As others have said, the slider controls for volume, brightness and scrubbers are what I use most often, but I also like the share button to quickly airdrop, and the ‘OK’ ‘Cancel’ etc for dialog boxes - that’s the only one I’ve got some muscle memory for, probably because it’s one of the few features that’s system wide. 

    Plus I still smile at the ‘Unlock With Touch ID’ animation as it points me to the touch key; it reminds me of the magic when I held the first iPhone and saw that (then) futuristic ‘Swipe to Unlock’ animation. Beautiful. 

    Great article. It wasn’t all your fault Touch Bar! Now I guess it’s back to hammering the old ‘volume up’ and ‘volume down’ keys. 
    chasmking editor the gratewilliamlondonwatto_cobrasphericchiarmusikantowFileMakerFellerjony0

  • RIP Touch Bar -- Apple sends the 13-inch MacBook Pro to the grave

    markbritonmarkbriton
    I’m a member of the Touch Bar Fan Club, but admittedly not many people signed up for our Halloween Social this year. That crazy Touch Bar had so much potential, but she never got the care and attention she deserved. She died so young. Gone but not forgotten, rest in peace.  
    OferAlex1Ntenthousandthingswilliamlondonroundaboutnowanome

  • Apple's 'Mother Nature' sketch was a complete dud, and didn't belong in the iPhone 15 even...

    markbritonmarkbriton
    I didn’t think it was “padding” at all. Apple really does try much harder to be green than its competitors, and the appointment of Lisa Jackson ten years ago really has made a difference. In the admittedly not-great comedy, there was lots of information that I found fascinating. Apple’s green credentials might not matter that much to some people, but they matter to a lot of others, myself included. 

    I do however agree that it was quite jarring and didn’t seem to fit well with the rest of the presentation. I’m not sure a “comedy” sketch was the best way to cover the information, and your question about the writers strikes is an interesting one, but I didn’t think of it as “padding” at all, Apple’s environmental credentials are important to me, and other people too. 
    9secondkox2

  • Editorial: Why is Samsung's Galaxy Fold graded on a curve?

    markbritonmarkbriton
    I love reading your angry scathing editorials! It’s no surprise to me that the tech press (which I stopped reading many years ago, present company excluded) continue to overly criticise Apple; they’ve done so since the 1990’s. They grew up hating Apple for allegedly being too expensive, closed and dictatorial. That’s understandable given that techie people like toys to tinker with and so it’s unlikely to change. What does fascinate me though are the numbers that you always present. The business / finance journalists really have no excuse for their misleading reporting. Keep up the good work. I’d love to read an editorial about Apple and the environment for Earth Day. How do Apple’s competitors compare on that front do you think? 
    tenthousandthingsradarthekatjony0

  • Apple's 'Mother Nature' sketch was a complete dud, and didn't belong in the iPhone 15 even...

    markbritonmarkbriton
    mike eggleston said:
    When I was watching it live, I thought the skit was out of place initially only because it seemed weird to have during the product announcements. Then Apple started using it during the product announcements as a way to show that they were going to be hitting all of their carbon neutral goals on or before 2030, including some NOW.

    And that was the big takeaway here. That they are already meeting not some far-off plan of "we will get there". No, it is the here and now, and moving forward. That is the takeaway. They are stating that Apple Watch is 100% carbon neutral. That is a huge step forward! There are 18 Tech/Software companies that are already 100% Carbon Neutral, and none of them are from the major players. (Link: https://www.climateneutral.org/certified-brands?industry=Software%20%2B%20Tech)

    If all you saw was people trying to be funny about a serious discussion, you were not paying attention at all. 100% clean energy usage in every Apple store, office, and data center is an AMAZING accomplishment. If you have never worked in a data center, they gobble up electricity much like what would happen if an entire Kindergarten class could consume sugar if they had unfettered access to Willy Wonka's factory. I think it is safe to assume that Apple has a much larger data center than that of your standard data center. Not to mention reduction of water, using cleaner modes of transportation, and other aspects that they did (reforestation is not a small accomplishment).

    Sure, we could all be snide about this, and ask why they put this in there. I think the better question should be, why doesn't anyone else?
    I agree, Apple has every right to shout about those achievements. I’m not sure it was the best way to shout about them, and I think some people missed the point of it; Apple was throwing serious shade at its competitors, suggesting that they’re greenwashing, whereas Apple is actually taking action. I found it a bit jarring, but then again if the aim was to get people talking about, it seems to have worked. 
    mike egglestonronn

  • Three weeks after calling for Apple boycott, Donald Trump is tweeting from his iPhone again

    markbritonmarkbriton
    I'm visiting the US again at the end of the year. Can anyone explain how the Muslim test will work? Am I at risk of being tortured?