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Apple's Sherlocking hall of shame has more adds than ever before in 2025
To a degree, Apple is damned if it does, damned if it doesn't. While I have sympathy for developers whose businesses get upended when Apple Sherlocks their app's functionality into the OS, surely no developer could be unaware--24 years after Sherlock--that this is always a risk. But the apps keep coming, so I assume that developers have made their peace with this possibility.
Apple, unfortunately, will get criticized either way. When it Sherlocks apps into the OS, it's accused of being the 800 pound gorilla stomping on small businesses. And if Apple leaves it to consumers to either purchase or pay ongoing subscription fees (mostly the latter these days) for third party apps to provide these functionalities, then Apple's various OSes get criticized for being "behind" in features. -
Apple TV+ is about art more than iPhone sales says Tim Cook
tiredskills said:F1 looks terrible. Expensively terrible, but terrible nonetheless. The idea that it is art in any meaningful sense strikes me as fanciful, it's Bruckheimer trash.
Speaking as someone who has spent a career either giving notes as a network executive or getting notes as the owner of a production company, I will tell you that "F1 looks terrible" is the kind of lazy, meaningless, gibberish note given by someone who has no idea what they're talking about but feels they need to say something critical to justify their job. It's a comment that's not actionable because it could mean a million different things. So... care to step up here and tell us what "looks terrible" specifically means to you? Is the color correction off? Is the picture out of focus? Do you not like the cinematography and, if you don't, how would change it? Etc, etc... let's hear it.
"The idea that it is art in any meaningful sense strikes me as fanciful." Funny thing, critics felt exactly the same way about Blade Runner, Fight Club, Big Lebowski and others, which were all initially panned and are now considered classics. Oh, and Citizen Kane lost money at the box office, didn't even make back its investment.
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Apple's AI rollout leaves Siri behind & long-time fans are asking questions
imwishing said:MassiveAttack said:Rogue01 said:Siri and improved Apple AI reminds me of AirPower. Schiller - we can do this. Schiller a year later - no we can't. I am not holding my breath for Siri. I rarely use it because it isn't very reliable, and the response is usually the same thing, let me see what I can find on the internet. I can do that myself and get a better response. Apple has had 14 years to fix Siri, and hasn't done it yet.
Ditching the Siri brand whenever Apple finishes work on its next-gen voice assistant is actually a pretty decent idea. Siri is a valueless brand name now, other then being a "known" name, but what it's known for is not anything you'd want to be associated with a product.
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Apple's new and sweeping user interface design is called 'Liquid Glass'
blastdoor said:But the elephant in the room is that Apple is noticeably behind in the most important and exciting new technology since the web. They can catch up and I think they will catch up. But they are clearly behind right now and there’s no fresh coat of paint that can cover that up. -
Apple's new and sweeping user interface design is called 'Liquid Glass'
coolfactor said:Rogue01 said:So it is Aqua, without any color, from 2000.
With iOS 7, the heavy transparency was awful because everything blended over itself and over the next few iOS updates, the transparency was significantly reduced so you could actually see what you were doing without elements from behind bleeding into everything else. I imagine the same will occur again. The screenshot above showing the Home Screen looks just like iOS 18, with a few minor tweaks to the icons. Not that much of a change. Not exactly a 'radical' design change as all the websites claimed.