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  • Analysts mostly nonplussed by DoJ suit, and believe Apple will win

    andyringandyring
    Like it or not, this will hurt the Biden administration more than Apple.

    Why?

    Trump can run ads and have talking points like “Now Joe Biden wants to take away your gas stove, your reliable gas-powered car AND your iPhone!"
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  • What's Apple's Vision Pro killer app?

    andyringandyring
    I have no idea if this kind of thing is Apple's "target market" or not but here we go...

    I think this field in general will explode for the training realm. I'm not into gaming and hardly ever watch a movie.

    I fix locomotives for a major railroad.

    A month ago I was in a class for the newest class of diesel locomotives. It was a two-week class, because these units are incredibly complex. A week or so before the class, I spent a day going through most of the class tasks with a VR headset. I think the ones we used were Oculus if I recall. It was a VR headset and a controller for each hand. I was able to go through a pretty realistic environment to remove and replace various locomotive components all in VR. It was very well done. Myself and others in the class were literally turning virtual wrenches, using virtual power tools, and so on. And we could do it SAFELY!!! Some of these components carry significant risk. We're talking 25,000 psi fuel pressure (no, that is not a typo). And 19,000 psi of tension force on piston components.

    In the VR world, I could go through those tasks multiple times, SAFELY, until I was comfortable with it, without worrying about a mistake maiming or killing me.

    Translate this to the world of medicine for instance. Imagine a surgeon being able to practice surgery in VR without needing a cadaver. Or a paramedic responding to a nasty car crash and mangled patients and doing the training all in VR.

    This type of thing is where I believe the future of VR is headed.
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  • iOS 16.4 will support faster 5G on T-Mobile

    andyringandyring
    I wonder if it'll make anything better in Nebraska on T-Mobile. Right now in the Cornhusker State, T-Mobile is roughly analogous to two tin cans and string.
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  • Nomad leather cover for Siri Remote review: Fixing Apple's missteps

    andyringandyring
    Cesar Battistini Maziero said:
    How are you so unorganized that you lose a remote?
    Clearly, you don't have kids...
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  • Students failing college AP test due to unsupported HEIC iPhone photo format

    andyringandyring
    Wrong, Eric.

    The iPhone SHOULD default to sending JPG photos any and every time a photo leaves the iPhone, with the sole exception being photos destined for iCloud storage/backup. I hate HEIC, it screws up all kinds of stuff. Apple has a decades-long history of implementing changes like this with a "shoot first and ask questions later" mentality, or removing functionality and labeling it a "feature."

    And to say "the problem is a test maker that hasn't bothered to check if their web app works with iPhones for three years. Period." is incredibly disingenuous and, quite frankly, shows your blatant ignorance. This is happening in large part due to the COVID garbage. 
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