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Anilu_777 said:

tommikele said:

For me, only Waze is worth using if I am driving. Google maps and Apple Maps lack user input and immediate updates for all kinds of things, but in particular, accidents, debris, emergency service vehicles and yes, the location of Police. Without these things those two are essentially useless for me when driving. Walking, biking and public transport is a different story.

There’s the report feature (it works only when you’re actively using Maps) so you can say if there is an accident or hazard on the road. When you’re driving and approaching one (or a speed/red light camera) it will tell you then give you the option to mark it ‘still here’ or ‘cleared’ (Toronto area, Canada). 

The problem with the report feature is that it goes away too soon. It's hard to tell whether the accident is still there or cleared up until you just passed the location. Since keeping ones eyes on the road near a hazard is especially important, by the time I feel enough in the clear to want to report, I'm not able to.

"...Apple's first hair-able..."

  

Fred257 said:

I wish I could get weather on the Lock Screen. I’m tired of trying to get it there unsuccessfully. Apple wants you to buy their watch (which you can put the weather on the face of it). I’m tired of these products all different across the board. Dumping my iPhone for android..

buh-bye

Marvin said:

Holographic Facetime is a possibility, this would need the glasses to scan the wearer's face or articulate a face from voice. This has some interesting possibilities as shown in the following video:



You would effectively see a person in the same room. This could be used for remote education and would be a lot more effective trying to do a remote classroom. Remote fitness classes would be better with a full body accessory scanner, possibly an iPhone.

For some people it could replace using an iPad or iPhone like students taking notes in classes. They can have a hardware keyboard and be typing but using the view in the glasses instead of an iPad screen.

The "PORTL" display is nothing more than a "transparent" LCD -  a conventional LCD panel with the backlight unit (BLU) removed. Best image visibility is when the LCD panel is in front of a very well lit and evenly illuminated box. I've had several of these boxes built for retail applications. What's cool is that you can put actual product inside the box, and then have some interesting "reveals" and informational content on the LCD.

What Nussbaum did was pay attention to how images look best on the transparent LCD, and then optimizing the image capture side with a matching white background. The slight shadow behind the subject adds an extra illusion of depth, but make no mistake--it is not a 3D hologram by any stretch. The effect looks very good IRL, but these videos and photos of the experience make it look much better than it really is. He deserves props for his attention to detail, but it is not as groundbreaking as it seems.

I haven't shopped for SD cards in a while, but from what others have reported here, UHS-III is hard to find, so for that and other technical reasons, not surprising that UHS-II is what's included.

Maybe next major Mac upgrade cycle skips UHS-III and goes to SD Express UC-I. With bus speed up to 3,490 MB/s (!), if cards are available to take advantage, then we're talking SSD level performance.