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Tips: Bring back iOS app management to the Mac with iMazing 2.5.1
iMazing looks great, and I'll definitely have a look at it, but the worst loss in iTunes wasn't app management, but App Purchasing.
It's so annoying to navigate the web on my Mac, see an app I like, click to get it, and find I have to go to the App store on my iPhone, do a search for that app, check that it's the right one, THEN get it. That used to be so simple, click and it's automatically installed on my iPhone and iPad, but no more. It's annoying to us users, but I'm sure it's also hurting developers who probably lose potential sales in the process of that annoyingness. The App store on the Mac was so much better, apart from the cross selling (& buying) from searches.
I did love managing apps on the Mac though. It was certainly a lot easier and iMazing looks like the solution. Thanks.
Just pondering...
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Apple debuts $999 iPhone X with OLED Super Retina Display & Face ID authentication
Air Power looks more like Table Power. Been charging my controllers like that for years, but very nice to have and looking forward to it. Face ID looks great, so all I have to do is get someone to look at their phone and I've unlocked it. Fantastic! Question: Can it look at me horizontally? I unlock the phone a hundred times a day on my desk, so can I still unlock it with my finger or do I have to pick up the phone or move myself to look at it? Maybe that'll be part of HealthKit.
I'm sure we'll get answers to all that soon enough. The phone looks absolutely spectacular and those specs are beyond words amazing. I can't wait to get my hands on that camera. 
Just pondering... 
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Apple announces thinner MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, Touch ID, USB-C ports starting at $179...
hameta said:Though Off The Topic, Have You Ever Typed " Telex " Key Board ?That Was Indespensable Pre-Historic Tool for ANYBODY Who Were Engaged in The Business Communicating with People World-Widely Instantaneously on The Wire Before The Real Curtain of http:// & E-Mail Era Opened.What I Want to Say is I ReaLly Loved and Captivated by The " Touch & Feel " of The Key Board of Telex So Long - Very DEEP, PROFOUND STROKE with Real Hard & Heavy Response and Comfortable Clicking Sound - No Other Key Board of Computers Nowadays Developped in The Direction of " Thinner & Lighter " and Even No Other Typewriters Key Boards Can Match.Probably Very First Period of Computers Key Boards Such As IBM Terminal that Appeared in The Video Clip of This Live Event and Commodore Ones Might Have Retained The Same Touch, and Even Apple II Maybe.Of Course Those Key Boards Look Now Fossil Age Products - TOO HEAVY & TOO BULKY !But I Still Want Any Vendor in The World Have Them Resurrect and Sell !!!!!!I Have Never Ever Had Such " Orgasm " When I Typed Any Key of Telex Key Board with Any Developped Thin & Silent ( Real Physical Clicking Sound, NOT The Sound Out of Speakers ! ) Key Boards of Late.
The old Apple Extended keyboard had a similar feel because of the mechanical Alps switches. It was considered the best keyboard Apple ever made in terms of feel. A company called Matthias makes a modern version of that keyboard for Mac or PC, and you can find it here: http://matias.ca/tactilepro/
I've never used the modern ones, and they're not exactly cheap, but were supposedly highly regarded.
Enjoy!
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Apple announces thinner MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, Touch ID, USB-C ports starting at $179...
My new Apple Slogan: No dongle, no play. Apple... the Dongle Company.VSzulc said:Dumb, dumb, dumb...
Now don't get me wrong, it's it all bad. The new Touch Bar is a great idea (though with a stupid name, too easy to confuse with a touchpad!) Love the implementation and the possibilities it brings.
Also great to get new CPUs in the MacBook Pro who have fallen way behind. The storage speeds seem amazing.
But there is so much they messed up with this new MacBook.
1: The focus is wrong.
It's what... 15% thinner and 20% ligther? WHO CARES?!? It's not a MacBook Air, and we've long gotten past the point of thin enough and light enough.
This is supposed to be a machine for professionals, and I don't know any MBP owner who wouldn't choose longer battery life or something else useful, rather than shave off 2mm of height or 15% weight of a 3 pound laptop.
2: Only 2 ports.
Again, keep in mind that this is supposed to be a machine for professionals. Who on earth approved that the bottom tier model only has 2, that's right: T W O USB ports?!? And these ports are the only one on the machine! Want to hook up your MBP to the Ethernet while it's charging and connected to your phone? Tough, you can't! Not unless you upgrade to a more expensive model.
3: Too few ports.
The bigger models have 4 USB C ports, which is an improvement, but still woefully lacking. What was the point of removing all the old ports from the MBP? Making it a mm or two thinner? As I said: Dumb!
Apple took a machine for professionals, axed all the ports that professional users actually use, and replaced them with only 4. And to make it even worse, they chose a replacement port that 95% of people don't use or have.
So how am I supposed to hook the new MBP up to an Ethernet cable? Or a monitor? Or get sound in and out?
Apples vision of the future is one where people carry around laptop that's 15% lighter. And an extra pound or two of adapters and USB C cables... Dumb!
Their obsession with thinness over usefulness makes this no more than a glorified MacBook Air. The fact that they hawked it as a MacBook Air 13inch replacement speaks loads as to that end. I also found it ironic that they didn't include DVI on their list but included VGA, because in the real world, it's still all VGA, just like it's the headphone jack and USB sticks. Add a couple of hundred bucks in dongles to any price point on these new machines, and that's without counting the fact that you can't upgrade ANYTHING. What you bought is what you keep forever. 16GB Max and 512GB forever if you bought the base config. It's not an iPad, it's a Professional laptop.
As I'm typing this on a Retina MBP, let's see what I'm not getting that I have in my pro machine: two USB3, two DisplayPort/Lightning 2 ports, MagSafe (saved it a million times), an HDMI port, an SD card slot. Instead I get to buy dongles to get all that. I need a dongle to use my current dongles. Even the new iPhone 7 comes with a standard USB cable. As you said, it's dumb.
Just pondering...
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Apple announces thinner MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, Touch ID, USB-C ports starting at $179...
AstroPad allows you to use your iPad Pro and Pencil as if it was your Mac from anywhere in your house and with little lag. Duet allows you to use your iPad Pro as a second display on your Mac using your TrackPad/Mouse/or Touch. It's as close as you're going to get for now, and they work quite well (I use them daily on my 12 inch iPad and Pencil).dick applebaum said:- software UI to allow the iPad Pro to be used as touch input to the iMac -- including Apple Pencil
- pro apps (FCP, Logic, Xcode, etc) that run on the iMac and the iPad
- handoff both ways between the iMac and the iPad Pro
That would bring all the advantages of Touch UI to the iMmac without any of the disadvantages, and allow the iPad Pro, standalone, to do pro apps.
...Best of both worlds?
