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  • iPadOS 19 rumored to get more Mac-like in productivity push

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    charlesn said:
    Hope springs eternal for these changes but Apple has long been resistant. There was similar hope for iPad OS 18, especially after the debut of the all-new Pro iPad models, but that hope died at WWDC. We'll see this year. If Apple wanted to give the iPad Pros a real sales boost, make them capable of booting into either iPad OS or Mac OS at the user's discretion, which Apple Silicon can do. In iPad OS, it works as usual. In Mac OS, you lose touchscreen capability and it operates just like a Mac, requiring the use of Magic Keyboard with the built-in trackpad. Apple could do this today. No merging of 2 very different OSes required, no need to figure out how to bring touch to the Mac, no blah, blah, blah whatsoever. Boot into whichever OS makes the most sense for your needs at the moment. Macs have been able to boot into Windows for how long? 
    Macs could use BootCamp only on the Intel chips, so 2006-2020. 
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  • Apple Watch to get small hardware changes, big software updates

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    I am on an AW 8 because there’s not enough of a change in hardware yet. Plus, with this silly lawsuit over the pulse oximeter, the new watches can’t tell me my blood oxygen levels, so I’d actually lose that ability. I know I’ve read about the ability to read blood sugar, which is great if you have say diabetes. But what I’m really interested in is blood pressure. That would be very useful and helpful for me. It would be good to have more intelligence on the watch itself so it could process more things internally, but having the phone do it instead works for now. 
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  • Apple hampered its Siri ambitions by penny-pinching

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    One thing I wonder about is if the privacy focus could screw things up. I’ve read other stories in the past that because Apple doesn’t let Siri store information and other things and let it use other info like Google, Amazon, Open AI, etc do, it really hobbles Siri’s ability to improve itself. So Apple’s privacy focus in this case means they’re shoring themselves in the foot. 
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  • New M4 MacBook Air fixes the line's biggest problem

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    My 2017 15” Intel MacBook Pro could do 2 5k, or 4 external 4K monitors, and the newer models (2019 I think) could do 2 6k or 4 4K monitors. Why are the Apple Silicon models a downgrade in that department?
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  • iPhone owners are replacing their devices faster than before

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    I myself have been slowing my upgrading. Starting with the iPhone 1, I upgraded every 2 years. Once I got the 6+, I waited 3 years to get the 8+ (skipped the 6s and 7). Then I waited 4 years to get my current 13 Pro. I’m waiting to see what the 17 looks like. That’s the issue with the difference between subsequent years has slowed down, and the quality is so high, they last. Unlike a lot of the ‘droid phones. 
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