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  • New iPad Pro refresh rumors point to new 'iPad mini Pro,' True Tone across the line

    nolamacguynolamacguy
    macxpress said:
    If I were Apple I'd drop the mini and lower the price of the 9.7" iPad to the price of the mini. Then lower the price of the iPad Pro models down to the price of the 9.7" iPad. Just in time for the holidays too. Apple's doesn't need an iPad mini Pro model. There are way too many models of iPads as it is between the different screen sizes, old models, new models, Wifi models, LTE models, Pro models, capacity models, etc. Its just too much IMO. 
    eh not really. pick the size, then pick newer/better/pricier, or get older/cheaper. if you need cellular then add that. not so difficult. 

    i use a mini every day and prefer it to the regular for prone reading. 
    macguiwilliamlondon

  • This week on AI: 'Touch bar' MacBook Pro in late Oct., all-glass casing on 2017 iPhones & more

    nolamacguynolamacguy
    9secondkox2 said:
    wizard69 said:

    aegean said:
    In my opinion, its like adding clutter to your keyboard. I personally did not like the idea of seeing the stuff on my keyboard touch bar, that I already can on screen. MacBook will lose it's simplicity and elegance.
    Don't knock it until you have tried it!   

    I really don't see how you can call this clutter, it effectively replaces a row of function keys already there.  While I have reservations I'm not going to dismiss this out of hand.   I can imagine this working in a number of different ways some not so good while others having huge potential.   

    As as to what you are imagining I don't see it that way.    I fully expect usage similar to how function keys are used today.   You just won't have to guess as to key functionality. Frankly I see this as a power users feature, especially those that are very familiar with the keyboard.   If you are the sort that never used the function keys you will lose very little.  On the other hand if you do use the function keys this just makes it faster and easier to learn specific functions depending on the app in foreground.  

    As as for your statement about Mac Book losing its simplicity and elegance, where are you coming from here?    Seriously how does an improved function key capability reduce elegance?    If this works as imagined it would be more elegant and enhance operator access to the machine.   

    In in any event let's not knock something we haven't tried.   It could suck but this is Apple and we can at least hope that they do a better job than the average gringo implementing this on a MS compatible platform.   
    We've all tried it. 

    In the early 2000s. Gosh is had that ridiculous screen under the trackpad. 

    It it was just clutter. 

    Please Apple, don't turn the MBP into a Wii U. 

    Andvthe render is hideous. I don't want a display showing something that I could see on the main screen.  Especially some "now playing" list that I'd just want to hide. Really hate to see that become ad space for Apple a music or some garbage like that. 
    how anyone can still not get that apple implentations are nothing like competitors' earlier implementations is beyond me. some people never learn.   
    Soliwatto_cobra

  • Apple ordered to pay $302.4M in damages to VirnetX in patent retrial

    nolamacguynolamacguy
    fuck east texas and fuck software patents. as a career software dev, i see no reason ideas should be patentable rather than protecting implementation thru existing copyright law. that's how it works for other forms of written word. anybody can have the idea of a robotic superhero movie, but the dialogue in mine is mine. or another, nobody can patent the vague idea of a flying car, but if you build one your new hardware designs for an antigrav engine are yours. 
    ksecnostrathomasbadmonkbig

  • Apple threatens to pull No. 1 iMessage sticker pack 'Phoneys' for violating App Store regulations

    nolamacguynolamacguy
    ooooh "apple threatens" and issues "ultimatum" -- nice nasty headline and spin, AI. 
    pscooter63

  • All 2017 iPhones likely to have glass casing, stainless steel edges may be limited to high...

    nolamacguynolamacguy
    anton zuykov said:
    crowley said:
    Because

    If you had shown an image of an actual screen as opposed to some fake (so called) concept art (from some random dude), that would have been acceptable.

    Here:
    Much better looking from asthetics standpoint as well as from function stand point.
      
    http://cdn.iphonehacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/iOS-8-looks-quite-the-same-as-iOS-7-lock-screen.jpg

    Also, what is the problem with thin fonts? Don't like them or don't see them that well? No problemo -- there is bold font option in iOS that you can turn on. Use it, instead if demanding that terrible font for everyone else without the way to turn it off!
    my vision is perfect but i don't like thin fonts because they take longer to read. the newer, thicker typefaces are easier to scan at a glance. 
    ireland