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  • LG & Magna partnership 'very near' to winning 2024 'Apple Car' contract

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    Magna builds a number of mid to high-end vehicles for other makes (BMW, Mercedes and Jaguar)
    If the build quality of my I-Pace is anything to go by, Apple won't have panel gaps and rattles to worry about.
    gregoriusmwatto_cobrajony0byronl

  • Microsoft in talks to acquire Siri speech recognition partner Nuance for $16B

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    Didn't MS just retire Cortana?

    Something ain't right.
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  • Toyota president tells Apple to prepare for the long-haul with 'Apple Car'

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    prismatics said:
    robin huber said:
    Yes, because Apple knows nothing about long term service and support. 

    In terms of cars, they actually don't.
    Very true. They won't be able to get out of stopping support and spares production after 5 years. Then there is the right to repair. There is no way that Apple would ever be charging me through the nose to change the brake pads. These are commodity items and any half-decent mechanic including myself can change them. The same goes for tyres and wiper blades.
    Apple will be on a huge learning curve. What has worked for their business so far won't work when you get into the Automotive business.

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  • M1 MacBook Air review: nearly as transformative as the original

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    dewme said:

    cpsro     said:
    It bugs me that many traditional Apple Mac applications (Mail, Calendar, Contacts) under Big Sur have been redesigned for a touch interface, with extra space added to make it easier to select items unambiguously with one’s fingers, but the space is completely wasted because nobody has a touch screen Mac. On a 13” screen, the inefficiency is even more pronounced. A lot of people are working significantly less efficiently now, for no good reason. Apple needs to provide an option to revert to prior spacing.

    What does this mean with respect to the MacBook Air? Also, why would Apple design a UI around a computer they don’t make? I’d bet if you talk with a UX designer you’d gain some insight into why modern UI designs are following a more open and airy appearance with more white space. 

    Yeah i know, we’d all be much more efficient if we’d just learn how to use a keyboard properly and if all UIs followed the vi editor command paradigm and Wordstar keyboard shortcuts. 

    You may not like it, but it’s really a thing. 
    https://uxengineer.com/principles-of-design/white-space/


    More whitespace means more scrolling up and down which leads to inefficiency.  The malaise has been around for several years. Even Windows Server 2015 was infected with it. Not everyone works on 4K screens but some UI designers seem to assume that we have infinite vertical space on our kit. We don't but they don't care and it seems to be getting worse.


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  • Over 2,000 law enforcement agencies have iPhone encryption-breaking tools

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    OctoMonkey said:
    bloggerblog said:
    Tim said “my generation has failed you” there is nothing private in tech anymore. Actually I’d be surprised if Apple has not already been handed a gag order on back doors. 
    Agreed!  Given how information "leaks" seem to happen constantly, if such a gag order does exist, somebody should simply leak it.

    More, if these tools exist, what is the reason for the DOJ to be doggedly pursuing back doors from the tech companies?

    Media Soundbites. It makes the DOJ lapdog look good in front of the cameras and in the news shows. Then they can go to their financial masters and ask for billions more funding.
    Simple really. Keep Joe Q Public in the dark. They don't really need to know do they? /s
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