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  • Here is everything Apple killed -- or tried to kill -- at WWDC 2020

    Rayz2016 said:

    Beats said:
    elijahg said:
    Force touch is going away on the watch?? Bleh. I find it really useful and much quicker than hunting through menus especially on a small screen. The current implementation is a bit crap though. You have to go around force touching everything to find out what is force touchable, and then try and remember. A simple indication of some sort, maybe a subtle screen edge glow or something similar would have been a good indicator so you knew immediately that you could force touch. 

    On a different note, I am not sure about the legality of them essentially abandoning hardware in existing watches. They're actually removing functionality that has existed since the watch was purchased. That seems a bit unreasonable to me.
    My issue with it is similar. It isn't that it is hard to know when it is available, it is that it is so inconsistent. Apple basically started to abandon it a year ago as it removed Force Touch menus from several apps, burying them in menus. Now it is completely gone. Things like changing the app layout seem so annoying and slow. I get the urge to make the watch thinner, but this is such a great way to interact with the watch and the small display. If it was used more, not less, it would have an entirely different story.

    Sad it was one of the biggest Watch innovations and in my opinion one of the biggest innovations of the 21st century. I remember when Apple invented it, the knockoffs were scrambling to rip it off and the next Android OS had a cheap imitation of it.

    Now if they remove it from my Macbook.....
    Where is force touch on the MacBook?
    So many people I know are pissed off that peek&pop is gone and replaced with this shitty long press that takes ages to activate and makes you feel like you want to smash the screen because it takes ages. Why is there no class action lawsuit.  Considering force touch on Mac, you can look up things etc by force touching a word.
    elijahg
  • Why the Mac's migration to Apple Silicon is bigger than ARM

    nuclide said:
    Arm Holdings (stylized as arm) is a semiconductor and software design company wholly owned by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group and its Vision Fund. 

    How is ARM "majority-owned by Chinese interests?"
    it appears everything not coming from the USA must be Chinese.
    williamlondon
  • Apple macOS 11.0 Big Sur announced with redesigned Finder, Dock

    It’s macOS 11. Is it now without Darwin Kernel or without NeXTSTEP inside, or is there something else that makes this worth an increment?
    watto_cobracornchip
  • Jony Ive delayed Apple's AR headset project over design concerns

    asterion said:
    When Apple becomes technology-led rather than design-led we'll know that the spirit of Apple — of Steve — has finally left.
    Apple has always been about excellence in human-centred design.
    More like shareholder-led.
    elijahgcornchipdysamoria
  • Apple adds Radeon 5600M 16-inch MacBook Pro & Mac Pro SSD upgrade kits [u]

    sflocal said:
    rob53 said:
    tht said:
    Nice to see!

    Just keep making incremental updates and options. Hopefully upgradeable SSDs will be available for all of the other Macs in the future.
    They won't be unless Apple makes a total change in the enclosures. You can open a current MBP and iMac but the iMac is not that easy. We'll see if Apple goes back to an easy to open front or rear case for the iMacs but I don't see them changing from soldered RAM and SSD on some of the MacBooks or changing back to a screwed on case. Most CPUs are also soldered to keep the height of the motherboard as thin as possible. Adding a CPU socket doubles the height of the CPU.
    additionally, Apple thinks nobody else except them is smart enough to replace an M.2 SSD or that SO-DIMM modules magically don't work except when they're designed by Apple themselves and 1:1 blueprinted onto the Mac Logic Board. But whatever, don't hope. I stopped "hoping" and started buying other Notebooks.
    Apple does this because 99% of buyers will never upgrade their machines after the initial purchase, not because of what you describe.  Fact.  Why should Apple add additional engineering, height, etc to accommodate The < 1%?  Makes no sense.
    Maybe it's just a feeling that it's 99%. I have a different feeling, more like 50%.
    elijahg