sflagel

Love Beats Fit Pro. Love the collabs.

But when will they upgrade the tech to the standard of Airport Pro 2? Assuming the AirPods Pro 3 are coming out in October, Beats Fit Pro will soon be two generations behind.

In addition to a how-to guide to use End of Life Time Capsules, could AI provide reviews of the best currently available alternatives for Time Machine? The number of available devices is so large, I can't decide which one works best (i.e., seamlessly with Time Machine).

StrangeDays said:

rob53 said:

Apple was correct in dumping Project Titan. They don't have any expertise in building any type of car. They would need land and millions of dollars worth of manufacturing equipment. If they wanted to buy Rivian for a fire sale price to get manufacturing facilities and some expertise, I might go for it but they'd need to do a lot of work on fixing Rivian's vehicles plus come up with a respectable sedan. There is room for an American EV manufacturer, Tesla can't build all the EVs without building several more manufacturing facilities. 

Tell me, how much cell phone experience did Apple have before entering that market? Any car Apple would build would be a computer on wheels, the same way phones today are computers that make calls now.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. 

With the iPhone, one could envisage its future: digital cameras, digital videos, digital personal assistants, digital music players, etc all already existed. All the memes about the many devices that have been absorbed into a phone put testament to that. People had been waiting for years to combine them all into one device. Apple was best at doing so, and is doing the same again with the Apple Watch. These products are not "computers in your pocket" and "computers on your wrist" - they are each functionalities that previously existed separately, bundled together using computer technology.

I don't see the same with cars. It's not just about having a "computer on wheels", it's about what you can do with computer technology on wheels for which you previously needed to use other products. Beyond driverless steering which bundles-in the driver, I can think of no other functionalities or products that could be combined in a car (well, we did want cars that fly; but not even Apple was developing that). Although would love to hear some ideas.

beowulfschmidt said:

sflagel said:

Why am I not getting this? How is Passkey different from the saved Usernames and Passwords saved on my iCloud Keychain, other than that the Passkey is hidden even from me? If I use Passkey on a site, how do I log-in on a third-person device, say a company computer at work? And what if I have different accounts for the same service on one device, say separate Amazon accounts? 

Depends on whether I can use the same passkey on, for instance, a Mac, an iPhone, a Windows PC, an Android tablet, and a Linux desktop.  If I set up a site with a passkey, can I then export that passkey to another (non-Apple) device or must I set up a new one?  Note that I do not know the answer to this question.

I personally have that functionality because I use a password manager that works cross platform, and holds the passwords on my local network.  Passkeys sound like they are not portable, being machine specific, so I'd be less enthusiastic.

Exactly. Apple devices have a built-in password manager, that holds all usernames and passwords across devices and uses them to log-in based on FaceID or TouchID. And even if I forget them, I can look up these usernames and passwords in the password manager and use them on any non-Apple device. And I can see which usernames and passwords I use for each account (e.g., I have two different Netflix accounts). I don't understand the benefits of "Passkey", hopefully someone on this forum can explain to Beowulfschmidt and me.

Excellent idea. Apple ID was always confusing; every company in the world clarifies the difference between the account, the log-in identification (mostly an email address), and the password. Only Apple blurs the lines.

Who knows, this may be the first step allowing users to use another Apple email address and, shock horror, merge two addresses under one account?