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  • Steam Link debuts on iOS and tvOS a year after Apple rejected title for violating App Stor...

    firelock said:
    Just tried it out on my Apple TV 4K. Had to install three drivers on my Mac but when I fired up "Into the Breach It kept freezing. However, after restarting Steam on my Mac it worked. But after the game loaded I realized that my Nimbus controller was not going to work. The game said to press a button with three horizontal lines (like the menu button on an Xbox controller) to start the game, but the Nimbus doesn’t have that button. So I decided to order a Steam controller as it looks promising.
    It likely wants you to press the start button on the controller if it has one.
    I tried every button including triggers, bumpers, and the start button (which took me to the home screen). As another poster said it worked for him I suspect it depends on the game you are trying to play.
    watto_cobra
  • Steam Link debuts on iOS and tvOS a year after Apple rejected title for violating App Stor...

    Just tried it out on my Apple TV 4K. Had to install three drivers on my Mac but when I fired up "Into the Breach It kept freezing. However, after restarting Steam on my Mac it worked. But after the game loaded I realized that my Nimbus controller was not going to work. The game said to press a button with three horizontal lines (like the menu button on an Xbox controller) to start the game, but the Nimbus doesn’t have that button. So I decided to order a Steam controller as it looks promising.
    watto_cobra
  • Apple shipped 4.5M iPhone XRs in North America last quarter, estimates say

    Given that the iPhone is the standard to which all other phones are compared, and most other phone makers imitate the iPhone, I’m not sure it is fair to say that Apple is the one not offering enough differentiation.
    AppleExposedcornchip
  • Editorial: Why is Samsung's Galaxy Fold graded on a curve?

    flydog said:
    This article manufactures a non-existent controversy to justify its existence. I haven’t seen any evidence that Samsung is treated differently than Apple in the press or the public eye.  

    Although the Verge stated just yesterday, "My Samsung Galaxy Fold screen broke after just a day. Yikes," this article refers to the author as passive and as evidence of an anti-Apple bias, cherry picking quotes to justify its false premise.  If anything, the Verge article is evidence of the opposite:   

    We’ve seen worries about scratches on expensive phones and debris breaking the keyboard on expensive MacBooks, but a piece of debris distorting the screen on a $1,980 phone after one day of use feels like it’s on an entirely different level.


    The author of the “Yikes” article has on the same page a video that fawns over the phone, apparently made only hours after getting it in his hands before it broke. The Yikes article itself certainly takes Samsung to task for having a product that breaks so quickly. But it is also a very measured criticism that “gives credit” to Samsung for making the attempt. I think most readers of this forum would agree that if Apple had come out with such an overpriced, Frankensteined, and flawed product pundits would be pronouncing it as the end of the company.
    watto_cobrajony0
  • Dark mode, universal 'Undo' gestures touted to arrive in 'iOS 13'

    Except no one wants Dark Mode 24/7 the way it was implemented in macOS. I had to use a third party app NightOwl to get what people actually want which is automatic shifting between Light/Dark mode based on time of day.

    iOS of course will not be able to be manipulated in any such way.
    I tried dark mode on my home iMac but finally had to turn it off. I generally liked it but couldn’t stand the reverse type in Mail. I wish there was a way to customize it maybe app by app. I generally like “dark themes” and use them in most other software like Adobe Photoshop and Bridge.
    MplsP