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  • No redesign expected for 2025 M5 MacBook Pro

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    lukei said:
    Tethering to an iPhone from a Mac via Bluetooth is unreliable. I often have to resort to a cable to make it work.

    To quote the internet, "yer doin it rong."

    Open Settings. Fifth item under your name is "Personal Hotspot." Turn it on.

    Now check your Mac's available Wi-Fi networks. Your iPhone will be seen as one of them. Join it.

    Done. When the hotspot is no longer needed, turn it off.
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  • Apple will try to right the Apple Intelligence Siri ship, but don't expect firings

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    SuntanIronMan said:
    Wait, what? “Rumor Score: Likely”, but what’s the rumor?

    I feel silly asking because it seems like I’m missing something super obvious. But I did read the article twice and I don’t actually know what the rumor is. Or is the rumor simply that Apple will try harder and nobody will get fired?
    Yes, the rumor was that Apple will shuffle somebody in to to fix Siri (over time) and nobody will be fired because of it.

    And, as it turns out, that's EXACTLY what happened.
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  • iPhone fold report resurrects decade-old liquid metal component rumor

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    I'm skeptical of an iPhone fold.

    The existing folding phones are a neat trick but are:
    a) hideously expensive
    b) prone to hinge damage

    By its nature a folding iPhone would have to be significantly thinner, which likely means some loss of features or technology. Even if Apple could work around these issues and keep the cost reasonable, there's no evidence that folding smartphones are anything but a niche in the Android market as well, so the goal of developing a folding iPhone would be ... ?

    A foldable iPad makes a lot more sense to me.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's iOS 19, macOS 16 overhauls aimed at ease of use

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    Ease of use!? That was the old Apple.

    Tim Cook's over-promising under-delivering Apple will probably add advertisements in the Dock and probably the local search will present sponsored links first as in all the other search boxes. That CEO is so desperate to generate mo' money now that his 'new products' turn out to be failures (like the Car, AI, Vision), but 'service revenue' needs to be pumped up (so far without any tariffs).
    For the record, only you think Apple Intelligence is a failure. The rest of us think it is being rolled out incrementally -- it's behind its rivals, yes, but at least it doesn't seem to hallucinate like some other AI engines routinely do. I'm enjoying the writing tools on the devices I have that support Apple Intelligence.

    As for the Vision Pro, it is by no means a failure. You may find this shocking, but not every product Apple makes is expected or intended to sell in iPhone-like numbers. Apple had no expectations that the Vision Pro would outsell, let's say, the iPad.

    By your standards, all Apple products ever made except the iPhone are "flops." Certainly at the very least, the (relatively) abysmal-selling Mac line should be discontinued immediately, to saying nothing of trinkets like the Apple TV. :lol: 
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  • Leaked iPhone 17 metal molds show off new camera protrusions

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    braytonak said:
    I hoped any camera bump re-design would allow for a more stable tabletop experience. If the phone is on a table and you tap the screen near the left side of the Dynamic Island the phone wobbles. It’s a minor thing but feels like a silly oversight of design. 
    Assuming these molds are accurate, only the iPhone 17e will have the problem you are talking about.

    That said, I don't know anyone who puts any iPhone face up on a table.
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