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ivanh said:

If I already have 80% of songs and albums I like in my personal collection, will I get 80% off for subscribing to Apple Misic? If not, I’ll stay with Spotify.

Thanks for sharing.  My mind is at peace. /s

I just upgraded to 11.3 and Smart Invert is much better because images are no longer inverted. However embedded YouTube videos are as well as images linked in embedded tweets (not liking the embedded tweet trend but the people have tweeted). 

Also, we need Smart invert with truetone and night mode.  

Still, websites would be wise to detect smart invert if possible and optimize accordingly.  For instance, Smart Inverting this page yields bright white backgrounds around our usernames in the comments section as well as the header of the page, which generate enough brightness to perhaps defeat the purpose.  I’ll check further this evening.  

I want a dark mode so I can use my phone AND my computer at night.   The bright screens absolutely interfere with my sleep.  But I need to work.  

I deactivated my FB account and only think about it when it comes up in conversation, or articles like this.  

I don’t get AR yet - and I have an X. Can’t seem to find any use cases. Intuively, I would prefer AR on a HUD, like in a car or pair of glasses.  

However, I didn’t use Siri at all until I got an Apple Watch and AirPods.  Now I use it daily with frequency.  I also didn’t appreciate other benefits of the watch, like it’s integrarion with Maps which mitigates the need to stare at a GPS while driving, relying more on vibration and speech.  I’m anticipating that the sum of its parts is what will propel the Apple ecosystem, and that Apple has this in mind with AR.  

Which brings me to the broader issue of focusing on flash rather then the cohesive utility of elements of the Apple experience. There’s a tendency to reduce the utility of something (watch, headphones, phone, speaker) to one or two standout features, while ignoring how each element brings out additional utility that, standing alone, each event can’t provide.  Nobody would experience this cohesiveness if they didn’t have all or at least most of the elements, and if Apple can’t deliver on the services which connect them together. 

I don’t expect perfection, but Apple has raised a high bar, and I would argue that Apple still has work to do refining the software-service glue, less so the hardwire elements. Siri doesn’t work well enough ( for example, if I’ve voice activated Siri, why do I need to unlock my phone? If the watch Siri picks up and needs to pass to the phone for some tasks, why do I need to physically press a button? Why can’t siri understand interrogative dictation, why won’t it correctly interpret a command to text “asking” as an interrogative query? Stuff like that”). Face ID for me, also doesn’t work well because I’m near sighted and often need to unlock while reading at a desk. 

So, while I’ve been wanting a new home screen (more like windows phone, to be honest.. don’t hate me..), I prefer that Apple spend more time refining the services and functionality, especially that which increases the seemless connectivity between watch, phone, tablet, headphones, and PC.  High quality, beautiful hardware and well designed GUI I’m not worried about.