LumpyTapioca

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• Just what people want. An iPhone that's more expensive, heavier, thicker, fussy to operate, and far more delicate.

  in iPhone fold display when open rumored to retain a familiar aspect ratio Comment by LumpyTapioca March 28
• I did this in four days on a Mac Mini: https://noodlehut.bandcamp.com/album/illegitimate It would have taken a year without these tools.

  in Everyone is a loser in the Apple Intelligence race Comment by LumpyTapioca March 11
• I wish they would bring back the traditional macOS title bar, Just the traffic lights on the left, window title in the middle, *with a well defined place to grab it*

  in Apple is planning to make enormous design changes to iOS 19 & macOS 16 Comment by LumpyTapioca March 10
• When Richard Kerris was in charge of Apple Dev Relations, they made sure that the frameworks met developer's needs, the API documentation was up to date, and they didn't compete with us every time an app started making a little money. I miss those d…

  in Apple's diversity efforts are 'selfish & practical' says head of developer relations Comment by LumpyTapioca April 2023
• Linden Lab/Second Life should have been a member from the beginning. Second Life is not perfect, and a bit crusty, but hey still have users and it's closer to a pure metaverse than anyone's gotten so far. They've had to actually deal with many of th…

  in Meta, Adobe, Microsoft join metaverse standards body -- but Apple does not Comment by LumpyTapioca June 2022
• The way this WWDC keynote only presented "new stuff you can buy from Apple", I wouldn't be surprised if Xcode goes the way of iPod in two years.

  in Without any fanfare, Apple's tvOS 16 arrives at WWDC Comment by LumpyTapioca June 2022
• If this is real, I hope that Apple fixes a problem that the Quest 2 has. There needs to be two processors and GPUs. One to display the AR/VR content, and another that provides a persistent overlay, showing status data and responding to user movement…

  in Apple AR headset starting second round of pre-production tests Comment by LumpyTapioca February 2022
• He's got lots of money. I'm sure he'll get out of bed and go to work on much less, and if he didn't, get someone else. It's a big world. He'll be fine. People tend to think that he's "running" things at Apple. He's is directing some of the people th…

  in Apple shareholder group urges a no vote on CEO Tim Cook's $99M pay package Comment by LumpyTapioca February 2022
• There might be 3,000 construction jobs, but not once the fab complex is up and running. A fab has very little to do with "electronics". It is a hazardous chemical plant and the fab itself is but a giant machine. Raw materials in, wafers out. And tho…

  in Intel to build $20 billion chip factory in Ohio Comment by LumpyTapioca January 2022
• Carriers want to saturate airports with 5G service because that's a domain of lucrative customers. The "automated cockpit system" component in question is the ground radar altimeter. When these precision landing radar systems were designed and depl…

  in AT&T & Verizon won't delay 5G rollout over aviation safety concerns Comment by LumpyTapioca January 2022