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  • Apple research continues on combining iPhone, iPad with MacBook-style accessory

    raoulduke42raoulduke42
    These patents seem like misdirection, as they look like the proverbial fridge/toaster combo Apple has repeatedly derided. I do think they’ll eventually come out with a notebook design where the entire keyboard and trackpad area has been replaced with a touch screen surface. Like iOS, this setup would allow for a keyboard (in any language) to appear only when needed, and otherwise the touch surface could be showing application specific shortcuts- literally surfacing power commands that only keyboard shortcut aficionados know now. To make it work though they’d have to beef up the “Taptic” feedback system found in the current trackpads. Ideally they figure out some magic sauce to predict when a finger strike is imminent so that one feels one of those crazy fake clcicks that’s actually a vibration as soon as one’s finger lands on the virtual key. Use some IR inferometer setup or some such maybe.
    rossb2

  • A history of the iPad Mini, from life to limbo

    raoulduke42raoulduke42
    I love my mini 4. It's great for photo editing purposes using Lightroom mobile- all the important key commands from the Mac version work the same way on the iPad and the tiny size of the thing allows me to have it on me more frequently than a larger iPad would. I think they could make a "Pro" version just so they can still have a wee tiny iPad in the line-up and keep the $329 "normal" sized iPad around for the budget minded.
    GeorgeBMacargonautwatto_cobra

  • MacBook Air: Could a 2018 refresh of the budget MacBook be on the way?

    raoulduke42raoulduke42
    Seems to me like he time is ripe for them to introduce a 14” MacBook, and then just drop the price of the 12”. This would make the line up much like it was in the early aughts, with 12 and 14” budget MacBooks, and 13 and 15” Pro machines. Seemed a sensible line up then, why not an encore?
    mcdavebadmonk

  • AirPlay 2 might still be a possibility for Apple's AirPort Express in iOS 12

    raoulduke42raoulduke42
    zroger73 said:
    Even though Apple no longer sells the AirPort Express, it may be in their best interest to add AirPlay 2 support to this "legacy" device to help keep people in the Apple ecosystem.

    I've been using an AirPort Express connected to an amplifier to power a pair of ceiling-mounted speakers on my patio for years and have been warming up to the advantages of AirPlay 2. Adding this functionality to the AirPort Express may prevent me and others from defecting the Apple brand.

    On the other hand, if I were to buy a non-Apple solution, Apple still gets a licensing fee from the other manufacturer for the use of AirPlay 2 technology so adding AirPlay 2 to existinging AirPort Express devices may not have any significant benefit at all.

    I wonder how many people actually use an AirPort Express as an audio target? I'm the only one in my family and circle of friends to have ever done this. Everyone else I know either does without or has a different solution for multi-room audio.

    Okay, so now I've talked myself out of any hope of the AE every supporting AP2. :)
    I have a couple of the old single-ethernet port Expresses- one of which, like yours, requires 10.6 to configure, and also the analog portion of it's audio out port is kaput, but the optical still works- so I've got that and another single port Express hooked up to two different stereos and have been enjoying multi-audio room (from my Macs) for over a decade now. I've also got one of the dual-ethernet port Expresses that so far has just been used for travel purposes (shared my iPhone internet connection to three other devices via a MacBook Air and that Express recently when then hotel wifi was crap)... but I'd totally replace my one-port Express on the back deck with the dual if Airplay 2 is supported... but yes, seems unlikely. Hopefully someone makes an Airplay 2 audio whatzit (that's not a full receiver) in the future if Apple really is going to give up on their old hardware.
    watto_cobra

  • How to shorten long text documents in macOS with the Summarize service

    raoulduke42raoulduke42
    That's a pretty cool feature I never knew existed. Thanks for the tip!
    stanthemanwillcropoint