mattinoz

9secondkox2 said:

ITGUYINSD said:

9secondkox2 said:

williamlondon said:

ramanpfaff said:

A professional grifter. Robbing any fool that will listen to him. Humanity has failed. 

The key here is the “fool,” without whom the entire movement would crumble.

Last I saw, a moderator here was deleting the same kind of posts for attacking politicians. but I guess it only applies to whatever side has the favorable bias. Have some consistency. 

The "side" is the same side most of the entire world sides with.  Sorry you're not on the majority side.

Not the majority on this forum. But in the country? See the recent election. 

AppleZulu said:

The hub would be a central processor that can manage whatever is needed to have AI and AI Siri available to all networked home devices. In my mind, that'll be a puck, like an Apple TV box. It would add this upgraded power to all the HomePods and AppleTVs you already own. This way Apple can roll out AI power in Apple Home without the barrier of expecting customers to replace a bunch of HomePods and Apple TVs before they can access this feature. The home hub tablet would be an inexpensive device, dependent on the hub for processing power (unlike an iPad, this tablet would never leave your home network, so it wouldn't need its own beefy processor). You'd buy two or three, and generally keep them in various parts of the home. One in the kitchen, one in the master bedroom, etc. They'd come with MagSafe chargers that can stand on a counter or hang on the wall. This then adds an always-available visual interface to control home devices, in addition to the verbal control you already have via HomePods situated throughout the home. You'd still be able to control everything from an iPhone, iPad, MacBook, or Apple TV. The home hub tablets would just add the reliable convenience of having a home control station available nearby even when you've left your phone or iPad in another room, or in the car down in the garage. 

AppleZulu said:

tht said:

Hoping this iPadOS multitasking rumor means unlimited background multitasking has finally made its way to iPadOS.

Stage Manager on iPadOS basically maintained the limitation of 4 simultaneous apps, which you could do with Split View, Slide Over and PiP. The only big improvement was proper external monitor support. 

They should get rid of Stage Manager and have unlimited background multitasking. Use an Expose like UI for switching between apps and windows. Apps that were killed should not appear in the switcher. 

Oh, Terminal.app please. 

And, hopefully this thing about needing to attach a keyboard and mouse to use this UI is wrong. Everything should be doable through touch. 

There will continue to be a limit on things like multitasking.  iPads are sealed devices with no means to cool the processor.  They can be powerful devices, but there are physical limitations that define their separation from Macs. MacBook Air has passive venting, and as you move up the Mac line you’ll find bigger and bigger fans for dissipation of heat. Apple designs the OS to serve the hardware, and so there will continue to be things that Macs do and iPads don’t do, and vice-versa.

mattinoz said:

Hopefully this is time they finally let the iPad shine. Let it be the Mac replacement it could be for lots of people. 

If they recut the interaction boundaries because of overhauling the system then to me there is a sweet stop in the middle that is filled by most MacBook, most iPad users especially the pro buys and the vision users. Who need flexibility to get work done but only go under the hood because of problems not a desire to tinker.

There is then a more supportive tier that covers iPhone and a less supportive traditional Mac tier. 

As noted, there are hardware limitations that define where these lines are drawn. The perennial clamoring for iPads to be Macs and Macs to be iPads tend to ignore this and also to be myopic about the fantasyland middle ground, while ignoring the other ends of the spectrum of affected devices…

9secondkox2 said:

Time for touchscreen Macs. 

… so we have this idea keep popping up. While a touchscreen on a notebook sounds fine and dandy (ignoring for a moment the clusterf*** of using touch to control a menu-driven OS), a touchscreen interface on a desktop Mac would be an ergonomic nightmare and orders of magnitude worse on a multi-screen Mac Pro workstation.  And before we start imagining a solution involving the bloatware of alternate user interfaces within the same operating system, let’s just remember that Windows does that for the Surface, and it’s well-proven to be nothing Apple should replicate.

So as you can see, while Apple leans into refinements that bridge the boundaries between product lines, there are actual reasons for the boundaries between product lines. Thus far, Apple has maintained the wisdom not to toss aside their core design principles in order to try to accommodate Apple fan fiction fantasies, and hopefully they will maintain that wisdom well into the future.

mpantone said:

There's a good chance they are just filing the trademark, possibly to use in the future but not necessarily this year.

Apple really needs to get Apple Intelligence and Siri right before they can tackle home control systems. Let's remember that home control really only pertains to when you are actually in your own home. Technologies like Apple Intelligence and Siri affect all Apple users whether they are at home, at work, at school, on the road, on vacation, etc.

And ideally home control will go through a user's smartphone or smartwatch, the only two things people tend to keep on their person at all times. All these silly rumors of some wall-mounted touchscreen tablet are dopey. No one wants to get out of their home office chair, walk to the living room/kitchen/whatever, to twiddle with some menu on a wall-mounted tablet just to dim the lights or adjust the window blinds. Voice control makes the most sense but for that to happen you need really, Really, REALLY good voice recognition technology. Like 99.99% accurate. Not just for your voice or your spouse's voice, but for ALL voices. No one has that level of accuracy in 2025.

My guess is that Apple executives know all this.

They must get Siri working reliably (again 99.9+%) before they can seriously tackle home control.